FIELD TRIP #2: Deans Mountain Lookout & CCC "Virtual" Road Trip
Southwestern Oregon Community College [SWOCC]
David Gould and Cougar Pass Lookout Tower. April 16, 2020 photo by McKenzie Peters.
F 251 Recreation Resource Management
April 28, 2020
Tasha Livingstone, Instructor, Forestry/Natural Resources
Dr. Bob Zybach, Program Manager, www.ORWW.org
David Gould, Field Guide, Coos Bay Timber Operators, Inc.
McKenzie Peters, Videographer, NW Maps Co.
Nancy Stewart, Scholfield Valley Wood Products, Inc.
This "virtual" field trip has been asembled from recent on-site videotaping, past SWOCC F 251 student reports, ORWW educational websites content, on-site oral history recordings and transcripts, maps, and photographs. The tour focuses on the four former lookout sites on the Elliott -- Deans Mountain, Cougar Pass, Elk Peak, and Trail Butte -- as connected by the 1930s CCC road network, Quuiich and Hanis Indian trails, 1962 Columbus Day Storm roads, and Gould-McClay family pack trails. A "four peaks in one day" challenge might be a fun and rewarding recreational activity, particularly if accomplished on foot or by bike to a starting point!
This website is a continuation of Workshop #1 Introductions and Field Trip #1 Elkhorn Ranch.
These "virtual" field trips are intended to be about 3 1/2 hours or so in length. The principal uses of this time are the current 25-minute video, previously recorded oral history interviews, maps, photos, and select written materials, linked below.* These recordings and documents are primarily focused on the records, perspectives, and memories of Jerry Phillips and David Gould. Because of recording circumstances -- including wind, distance from recorder, mumbling, road rock, equipment quality, etc. -- some portions of the recordings are difficult to understand. It is recommended that headphones or high level volume settings may be helpful to better understand segments of poorly recorded spoken words. If such efforts result in identifying errors in transcriptions, please notify authors so that corrections can be made for future users.
Suggested uses of these resources include first spending 10-20 minutes becoming familiar with the organization and contents of the ORWW Deans Mountain field trip website and the 2019 SWOCC handout; followed by viewing the video while tracing the route on the "virtual" roads and lookouts field trip map -- all linked below. Each of the nine designated stops can then be revisited by following the links to the oral history recordings while skimming the transcripts, other texts, and/or viewing the photographs specific to the three topics assigned to each student. Specific helpful texts can then be noted by source and page numbers; recordings by tape number, minute, and second locations; and ORWW photos and maps by their individual JPEG filenames.
Any suggestions or recommendations for improving these methods welcomed! Next week will be the second (of three total) workshops, in which authors will construct working drafts of their project, including tests of significance (an easy, short paragraph); a brief referenced description of their topic (1-3 pages); and a selection of map(s) and four illustrative photos from existing ORWW files or personal creation. Field trip #3 will be the second week in May and include the BLM elk viewing area, Hinsdale rhododendron garden, Loon Lake, Huckleberry Point, Indian Point, Scottsburg, and an old-growth tree on the road to Cougar Pass.
ORWW Deans Mountain Field Trip Website: www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/Recreation/Field_Trips/Deans_Mountain.html
2019 SWOCC Deans Mountain Field Trip Handout (12 pp.): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/Recreation/Deans_Mountain/Zybach_20190514_Field_Trip.pdf
2020 SWOCC Deans Mountain and "Virtual" CCC Road Trip Map: www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/Recreation/2020_Roads/Field_Trip_2_20200428/SWOCC_20200428_Elliott-10.jpg
2020 SWOCC "Virtual" Field Trip #2 Video (24:51): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5alAxC7VI
Stop #1 CCC Camp Walker
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 31-51): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Camps and Calluses (Lansing 2014: 130-135): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Lansing/Lansing_2014.pdf
ADDITIONAL:* Transcript 11-A (pp. 108-109): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171206/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171206.pdf
Stop #2 CCC Scholfield Road
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 52-61): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Recording 10-B (28:20 to 47:26): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171206/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171206-10B.mp3
Transcript 10-B/11-A (pp. 91-107): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171206/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171206.pdf
Stop #3 Deans Mountain Lookout
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 82-90): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Transcript 10-B (pp. 81-89): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171206/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171206.pdf
Photos December 6, 2017 (37: 1490-1554): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171206/Photos/
ADDITIONAL:* Recording 7-C (16:46 to 29:58): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171108/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171108-7C.mp3
Transcript 7-C (pp. 140-146): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171108/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20191108.pdf
Stop #4 CCC Mud Flats Side Camp
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 59-62): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Recording 11-A (32:48 to 47:26): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171206/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171206-11A.mp3
Transcript 11-A/11-B (pp. 124-128): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171206/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171206.pdf
ADDITIONAL:* Recording 7-C (29:58 to 47:20): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171108/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171108-7C.mp3
Transcript 7-C (146-153): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171108/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20191108.pdf
Stop #5 CCC Cougar Pass Lookout
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 92-94): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Recording 3-B (4:15 to 23:35): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171010-3B.mp3
Transcript 3-B (pp. 97-106): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171010.pdf
Photos October 10, 2017 (15: 0902-0916): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Photos/
ADDITIONAL:* https://sites.google.com/view/cougarpass/home
Stop #6 CCC Umpcoos Road Vista
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 73-75): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Camps and Calluses (Lansing 2014: 113-115): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Lansing/Lansing_2014.pdf
Recording 2-B (35:28 to 47:33): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171010-2B.mp3
Transcript 2-B (pp. 60-69): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171010.pdf
Stop #7 Elk's Peak Lookout
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 90-92): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Recording 2-A (35:08 to 50:32): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171010-2A.mp3
Transcript 2-A (pp. 37-39): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171010.pdf
ADDITIONAL:* Above the Falls (Youst 2003: 93-96, 167, 186): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Youst/Youst_20030000.pdf
Recording 2-B (27:01 to 35:08) www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Recordings/Phillips-Zybach_20171010-2B.mp3
Transcript 2-B (pp. 55-60): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Oral/20171010/Transcript/Phillips-Zybach_20171010.pdf
Stop #8 1000 Road Weyerhaeuser Vista
Above the Falls (Youst 2003: 188-189): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Youst/Youst_20030000.pdf
"The 1945-1947 Weyerhaeuser Coos Bay Study" (Zybach 2018: 31-39): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/References/Academic/OR_Fish_&_Wildlife/Zybach_20180320.pdf
Stop #9 Trail Butte Lookout
Caulked Boots and Cheese Sandwiches (Phillips 1998: 94-96): www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Phillips_1998-201.pdf
Lost in Coos (Youst 2011: 75-79, 97-102): http://www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Youst/Youst_20110000.pdf
*NOTE: The term "ADDITIONAL" in these links are for sources of additional information regarding the stops. They are intended to be used to better follow topics or locations of particular individual interest; assuming students have not used the entire 3 1/2 hours of time by first going through the linked materials, or because they want to spend additional time of their own on the topic or location.
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