O. W. Pete Foiles

Footnotes:

  1. The NPS kept the park open on an experimental basis beginning in 1936.
  2. This began in 1949 and lasted until 1965.
  3. Camp Annie Springs generally operated only during the May through October enrollment period.  Enrollees were usually sent to other locations such as Oregon Caves in the enrollment period which ran from November through April.
  4. Building 5.
  5. Annual visitation has averaged 500,000 since the 1960’s.
  6. Wilkinson served as the Superintendent’s Secretary from 1927 to 1947.  She retired at Lassen Volcanic National Park in 1955.
  7. Most of the road building activity centered on the Rim Drive, a project that was completed in 1939.  A BPR engineer had been assigned to the park beginning in 1927.
  8. Building 129, demolished in 1987.
  9. Building 3, now called the Canfield Building. The bunks were on the second story.
  10. This interview took place before a decision had been reached to rehabilitate the building.
  11. Superintendent Leavitt backed this proposal in the early 1940’s, an ideas to be accompanied by relocation the Rim Campground. NPS Director Newton Drury overruled him by opposing the tunnel,  favoring instead the expansion of the camping at Annie Springs.
  12. As rustic wood bridge over Annie Creek built in 1928 was replaced, though the new bridge and the one over Goodbye Creek were found to be unsafe in the late 1940’s
  13. The snow courses at Annie Springs and Park Headquarters date from this period.
  14. The experiment sought to determine snow density changes during deposition and melting periods, and was aimed at better predictions of water yield.
  15. Union Creek remained a separate district of the Rogue River National Forest until 1962, when it was consolidated with Prospect.
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