Record Type: Book
Author(s)/Editor(s): Coats, J.H. (Bud)
Title: Communications in the National Forests of the Northern Region : A History of Telephone and Radio. s.l. : USDA Forest Service, Northern Region , 1984.
Publication Date: 1984
Description: "R1-84-14".
Collection Call Number: S3.6.8
Keywords: Region 1 (Northern Region), Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- History / Telephone and telegraph communications / Radio communications / 20th century / 1980s

Record Type: Book
Author(s)/Editor(s): Bates, Robert W.
Title: Historical Firsts in the Forest Service. Albuquerque, NM : USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region, 1978.
Publication Date: 1978
Pages / Extent of Material: 71 p.
Description: Cultural Resources Report no. 26. Contents : 1. The Baseline Wireless Station (First use of radio in the Forest Service) -- 2. The Coronado Trail (First federal aid highway) -- 3. The Fat Was in the Fire (First court test of Regulation T-12) -- 4. It Ain't Been the Same Ever Since (First use of aircraft to move manpower in fire emergencies.)
Collection Call Number: S1.1.15
Keywords: Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- History / Radio communications / National forests -- History / Roads / Cattle trespass / Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- Law and legislation / Aerial fire control -- History / 20th century / 1970s

Record Type: Book
Author(s)/Editor(s): Gray, Gary Craven.
Title: Radio for the Fireline : A History of Electronic Communication in the Forest Service, 1905-1975. Washington, D.C. : USDA Forest Service, 1982.
Publication Date: 1982
Pages / Extent of Material: 304 p.
Description: FS-369.
Collection Call Number: S1.2.12
Keywords: Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- History / Telephone and telegraph communications / Radio communications / 20th century / 1980s

Record Type: Manuscript(s)
Title: "Agriculture : USDA -- Radio."
Publication Date: 1991
Pages / Extent of Material: 4 p.
Description: Issue of "Farm Broadcast Letter" (USDA, March 29, 1991).
Collection Call Number: F4.4
Keywords: Radio communications / U.S. Department of Agriculture -- Programs / 20th century / 1990s

Record Type: Manuscript(s)
Title: "Fire Danger: Public Broadcasting."
Publication Date: 1946,1948, 1950, 1952, no date
Pages / Extent of Material: Approx. 16 p.
Description: Stapled handwritten rough draft of never completed March 1948 article Public broadcasts of forest fire danger conditions including table of fires by cause by New England state; Suggested statements for forest fire danger predictions for use by radio stations as a public service," Virginia, February 15, 1950; "Broadcasts by U.S. Weather Bureau, Providence, RI on Fire Weather Forecast, April 1, 6, 8, 13, 16, 22, 26, 1946; "Connecticut State Park and Forest Commission Radio Stations - Schedule of Broadcasts, 1952; "Special Bulletins from NC and U.S. Forest Services," no date; "Connecticut State Part and Forest Commissions Forest Fire Danger Forecast," March 11, 1952.
Collection Call Number: F6.1
Keywords: Fire danger / Radio communications / Public relations / Forecasting / Weather / Keetch, John / 20th century / 1940s / 1950s

Record Type: Manuscript(s)
Title: "Radio, Telephone, and Telegraph Communications : Equipment, Use fees."
Publication Date: 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993
Pages / Extent of Material: Approx. 35 p.
Description: One-page list of "Forest Service Historical Radio Equipment Available for Display" compiled by Marv Storey (November 4, 1988); email (DG) correspondence concerning a collection of early Forest Service radio equipment; Statement of George M. Leonard, Associate Chief, FS before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, March 23, 1993, concerning communications site fees, Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) requires fair market value in fees for use of public lands (8 p.); Statement of George M. Leonard... [same as previous], concerning communications site fees, March 24, 1993, includes "supplemental statement, USDA, concerning communications site fees," (9 p.); Decision Memorandum for the Secretary from F. Dale Robertson, Chief FS, April 3, 1992, re: radio and television broadcast use fee advisory committee, with nominee list, (6 p.); corresondence from James L. Dean, Director, Committee Management Secretariat, General Services Administration, Office of Administration, Washington, D.C. to Charles R. Hilty, Associate Deputy Secretary USDA, re: establishment of Radio and Television Broadcast Use Fee Advisory Committee, no date, (1 p.).
Collection Call Number: F14.3
Keywords: Telephone and telegraph communications / Radio communications / Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- History / Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- Equipment / Telephone and telegraph communications -- Hearings / Statements Before Subcommittees -- U.S. Senate / Use fees / Radio communications -- Hearings / Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior / 20th century / 1980s / 1990s

Record Type: Manuscript(s)
Title: "Radio, Telephone, and Telegraph Communications : Forest Service Communications History (Replies)."
Publication Date: 1972
Pages / Extent of Material: Approx. 60 p.
Description: Responses of various Forest Service regions in response to a request from the Forest Service History section concerning location of electronic equipment and other items of historical value relating to communications in the forest service.
Collection Call Number: F14.3
Keywords: Telephone and telegraph communications / Radio communications / Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- History / Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- Equipment / 20th century / 1970s

Record Type: Manuscript(s)
Title: "Radio, Telephone, and Telegraph Communications : History in FS."
Publication Date: 1916-1936, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1980?, 2003, no date
Pages / Extent of Material: Approx. 134 p.
Description: Memos from 1928 and 1930 concerning a possible radio development project by the Forest Service; paper presented to the 1930 meeting of District Foresters in Washington, D.C., by D.L. Beatty concerning the project; "Radio Communication in the National Forests" by D.L. Beatty (Forest Service, 1930, 27 p.); "Progress Report on the Portable Radio Transmitter-Receiver" (Forest Service, 1931); "Radio on the National Forests" by A.G. Simpson and F.V. Horton (for publication in "American Forests"; with cover letter,1935); Simson and Horton "'Calling all Rangers!' Forest Service Weaves a Network of 700 Stations as Radio is Developed for Protection of National Forests of the West" American Forests 41 (August 1935); memos and reports on the project prepared by Gael (A.G.) Simpson in 1936 (replaced Beatty); typed manuscript and handwritten notes concerning USFS radio research in 1919; handwritten manuscript entitled "Phase II Radio Development" by Gaylord K. Knight (1973); "Report on the Baseline Wireless Station, Apache National Forest, Arizona" and "Wireless Investigations in the Southwestern National Forest District" (Forest Service, 1916, with cover letter from 1973 by John Adams); photographs of early radios; "Radio Communication Reminiscences" by Francis W. Woods (p. 12 of unidentified (retiree?) publication; typed copy of a news item from the December 5, 1916, Arizona Star newspaper entitled "Arizona Forest Ranger Transmits His Report in Wireless Message" (with cover letter from Robert W. Bates, 1971); "History of the Present Field Telecommunications System" (from Comm. Study, Pacific Southwest Experiment Station, Berkeley, California, 1971). Handwritten notes by Gaylord K. Knight, who apparently compiled this material, throughout; news release, "From Heliographs, to Telephones, to Radios, Seventy-five Years of Communications In Montana and Idaho National Forests," (November 28, 1980? 5 p.); "A Brief History of the Small White Building at the Corner of 39th Street and Whitaker Drive, Missoula, Montana" by Edward G. Heilman, USDA FS, retired, November 2003, 3 p.; "Jemez Forest Telephone Line: A Historic Communication Network Constructed by the U.S. Forest Service as a Key Strategy in their Fight against Fire, 1906-1947, Los Alamos National Laboratory Subcontract No. 24496-001-05 AH," by Janie O'Rourke; "First Forest Service Wireless," by Douglas F. Davis, Journal of Forest History, vol. 18 no 1 & 2, April 1974; "Report on the Baseline Wireless Station, Apache National Forest, 1916," by L.V. Slonaker, Journal of Forest History, vol. 18 no 1 & 2, April 1974.
Collection Call Number: F14.3
Keywords: Radio communications / Telephone and telegraph communications / Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- History / Forestry research / 20th century / 21st century / 2000s / 1910s / 1920s / 1930s / 1940s / 1970s / 1980s

Record Type: Manuscript(s)
Title: "Radio, Telephone, and Telegraph Communications : Use of Radio Telephones."
Publication Date: 1919, 1923, 2003-web site accessed
Pages / Extent of Material: 5, 18, 8 p.
Description: Discussion of USFS wireless telephone communications in 1919 (1919, no author); "The Use of Radio Telephone in the Forest Service" by R.B. Adams (presented to the Missoula Section of the American Foresters, January 22, 1923). [Part of the materials compiled by Gaylord K. Knight and filed in the "Radio, Telephone, and Telegraph Communications : History in FS" file]; "First Arizona Forest Ranger to use Wireless" (from web site, Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications, and Computation History, accessed 12-15-03).
Collection Call Number: F14.3
Keywords: Radio communications / Telephone and telegraph communications / Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture -- History / Forestry research / 20th century / 21st century / 2000s / 1910s / 1920s

Record Type: Manuscript(s)
Title: "Regions : Region 4 -- News releases."
Publication Date: 1988, 1989, 1990
Pages / Extent of Material: 54 p.
Description: "News" [news release] (Ogden, Utah: [Regional Office], Intermountain Region, USDA FS), issues from 1988, 1989, 1990; issue dated September 2, 1988 has attached brochure, "Timber sale program information report, fiscal year 1987, Intermountain Region"; issue dated July 28, 1988 has attached "Notice of a proposed revised fee schedule for communication uses and request for public review and comments" [no date]; issue dated April 27, 1990 has attached, "Policy Statement on Livestock Grazing and Permit Administration in the Intermountain Region, USDA FS by J. S. Tixier, Regional Forester, (30 p.).
Collection Call Number: F15.2
Keywords: Region 4 (Intermountain Region), Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture / Public relations / News releases / Telephone and telegraph communications / Radio communications / Communications / Timber Sale Program Information Reporting System (TSPIRS) / Volunteers / 20th century / 1980s / 1990s