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Frederick William Cleator, born in 1883, was a forester and conservationist. He wrote Summer Homes in the National Forests of Oregon and Washington in 1932 when he served as the Forest Service's Assistant Inspector. In the book, Cleator outlined policy on the plotting of recreation residence tracts in national forests. He essentially worked as a landscape architect and planner throughout his career with the Forest Service.
The collection includes diaries, correspondence, notes, documents, and photographs related to Cleator's interest in the recreational aspects of national forests and the establishment of the Cascade skyline trail.
Series I. Working Files is arranged alphabetically and consists of notes, correspondence, and documents related to Cleator's work in the Forest Service and his personal interest in writing stories and poems. Series II. Journals contains work-related journals. The entries are sporadic. Series III. Photographs consists of material related to Cleator's work. The series contains prints, slides, and negatives. Subjects include trails, recreation, state and city parks, vegetation, animals, Native Americans, hikers, Timberline Lodge, and wilderness areas in Oregon and Washington state. Most of the photographs date from the 1930s and 1940s.