Dave Baumgartner Oral History Interview

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Title Dave Baumgartner Oral History Interview
Creator Baumgartner, Dave; Heers, Mary
Contributor Utah Humanities
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2017-04-22
Spatial Coverage City of Hyrum, Cache County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/11788387/city-of-hyrum.html
Subject Colorado; Forest fires; Foresters; Idaho; Oral histories; Reforestation; United States. Forest Service; Timber; Tree planting; Utah State University; Watershed management; Watersheds; Work; Work ethic; Wyoming; Hyrum (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Mary Heers with Dave Baumgartner. Topics include: Bridges and explosives; Studying forestry, soil and watersheds; Graduation from USU and a career of employment with the Forest service; Work with watershed issues in Colorado, timber/fire/recreation/water issues in Wyoming, and timber/fire issues in Idaho; Problems with over cutting timber and not replanting local tree species; A time when a dust cloud blew his hard hat off; Near accidents related to fires; A time he chased a fire for twenty-one days; Fighting fires with fire by creating fire lines, and burnt out root holes being toasty places to sit on cold nights.
Collection Number and Name MSS D 4 Utah Humanities Utah Works Oral History Collection, 2017
Holding Institution Utah Historical Society
Abstract Mr. Dave Baumgartner worked for the Forest Service for 35, beginning in 1969. He worked as part of a fire crew, and then a hotshot crew. He began his career in the Pike National Forest in Colorado; then he worked in Dubois, Wyoming, Cody, Wyoming, Hailey, Idaho; eventually, he worked on fires in every state in the western United States, and a few outside of the western United States.
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary genre)
Format application/pdf
Extent 16 pages; 00:45:08
Language eng
Rights
ARK ark:/87278/s6vwdyt3
Metadata Cataloger Amy Larsen Green
Setname dha_uhuwohp
ID 2769037
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vwdyt3
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