Special Collections and Archives Research Center. 2021. H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest [Oral History Collection]. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University .
PREDOMINANT DATES: 1996-2020
The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Oral History Collection is principally comprised of interviews with U.S. Forest Service employees, Oregon State University faculty, and other individuals involved with the creation, development and use of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, which is located in the west-central Oregon Cascades. The interviews were conducted by three scholars for three different projects: historian Max Geier, historian Samuel Schmieding, and anthropologist Sara Khatib. The collection also includes a smaller number of audiocassettes collected by geologist Fred Swanson that document events related to the history of the Andrews forest. The collection is rounded out by more than 150 scanned items digitized by Samuel Schmieding and chronicling the life of Region 6 Chief Forester Horace J. Andrews (1892-1951), for whom the forest was renamed in 1953. Nearly all of the oral history content held in this collection has been transcribed and made available online.