Title |
Oral history interview with Clark Ostergaard by Marsha Holland and Susan Cook |
Creator |
Ostergard, Clark; Holland, Marsha; Cook, Susan |
Contributor |
Holland, Marsha |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Date |
2008-02-21 |
Access Rights |
Utah Historical Society |
Date Digital |
2024-02-07; 2008-04-12 |
Spatial Coverage |
City of Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/11788479/city-of-murray.html City of Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174547/city-of-taylorsville.html |
Subject |
4-H clubs; Alfalfa; American Society of Landscape Architects; Aquifer storage recovery; Basketball; Beef; Botanical names; Bureau of Land Management lands; Chickens; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; City planners; City planning; Cows; Dams; Drafting and design series; Dry farming; Eisner-Stewart and Associates; Family; Football; Friends; Gardening; Golf courses; Grid plans (City planning); HDR, Inc. (Henningson, Durham & Richardson), Human resource management series; Landscape architects; Landscape contractors; Land use surveys; Marriage; Milk; Miller, Sonny; Missionaries; MX (Weapons system); Navajo Sandstone; Orchards; Parents; Personnel directors; Planning and Research Associates; Professors; Rampton, Calvin L., 1913-2007; Résumés (Employment); Rollercoasters; Siblings; School board members; Sheep; United States. Air Force; United States. National Forest Service; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; University of Southern California; Utah State University; Utah State University. Extension Service; Utah State University. Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department; Water; Wheat; World War II; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; Intermountain Power Agency (Murray, Utah); ; Utah County (Utah); Salt Lake City (Utah); Garfield County (Utah); Kanab (Utah); Millard County (Utah); Carson City (Nev.); Lincoln County (Nev.); Santa Clara (Utah); Lake Powell (Utah and Ariz.); Snow Canyon Middle School (Saint George, Utah); Snow Canyon High School (Saint George, Utah); Stansbury Park (Utah); Bloomington (Utah); Washington County (Utah); Clark County (Nev.); Redlands (Calif.); Pasadena (Calif.); San Bernardino (Calif.); Arizona; California; Saltair Resort (Utah); Great Salt Lake (Utah); Brigham City (Utah); Saint George (Utah) |
Description |
Oral history interview by Marsha Holland and Susan Cook with Clark Ostergaard. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents,siblings, growing up in Orem, Utah and education; Playing football in high school, Getting a scholarship to Snow College; Missionary service in Denmark; Attending at BYU for a semester and transfering to USU to study Forestry but changing to Landscape Architecture; Meeting his future wife at USU; Marriage and family; Rifing a bicycle to class; Passing a California license exam; Surveying for the U.S. Forest service; Using a plane-table; Working with civil engineers; Working at Wasatch, Salmon-Challis, and Tahoe National Forests; Beauty of the Sawtooth Mountains; Landscape management projects such as boardwalks, parking lots; restrooms, telephone poles; timber harvesting, and trail heads; The impact of people on streams; Retiring from the Forest Service after 30 years; Moonlighting in the private sector; Missionary service in New Zealand; Designing landscape for the New Zealand Temple grounds; Volunteering in Alaska at Chugach National Forest; Drawing and painting; and working with environmentalists; and oil companies. |
Collection Number and Name |
Mss B 2079 Grey Hair, Green Roots Oral History Project: Utah’s Landscape Architects |
Type |
Text; Sound |
Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
Format |
application/pdf |
Extent |
31 leaves; 1:20:07 |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
|
Source |
Mss B 2079 Grey Hair, Green Roots Oral History Project: Utah’s Landscape Architects |
Scanning Technician |
Michelle Gollehon |
Metadata Cataloger |
Amy Green Larsen |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6qpzma9 |
Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
ID |
2483985 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qpzma9 |