Elliott State Educational Forest
Elkhorn Ranch Field Trip
Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC) spring term 2018 Forest Recreation students follow tour guide David Gould through fallen old-growth at Silver Creek Heritage Grove. Photo taken April 17, 2018 by Anne Farrell-Matthews, SWOCC photographer.
This introductory field trip focuses on the fire and reforestation history of the Elliott and visible adjacent Weyerhaeuser forestlands, and on the pre-WW I human history of the West Fork Millicoma River -- in the heart of the Elliott -- dating to settlement and documentation by the Gould and McClay families in the 1880s. Photographs dated 2017 are by Bob Zybach, documenting an oral history interview with Jerry Phillips and David Gould; photos dated 2018, documenting the SWOCC Forest Recreation field trip, are by Anne Farrell-Matthews, SWOCC staff photographer. Two versions of the Elkhorn Ranch Field Trip Handout are available: a 2018 PDF File: 10 pp. with active links and that can be directly printed; and a 2018 Word File: 10 pp. also with active links, and that can be edited and modified for future educational field trips. A slightly updated handout was developed for the April 23, 2019 SWOCC Field Trip, but it is almost identical to the 2018 handout, so is only available as a 2019 PDF File: 11 pp.
Historical Gould/McClay family photographs can be found here: http://www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Gould/Photographs.html
Historical photos from the Jerry Phillips Collection can be found here: http://www.orww.org/Elliott_Forest/History/Phillips/Photographs.html
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