He had to commute every day?
We made an arrangement that he could stay in the park during the week but the housing situation is awkward with kids in school. The Prospect school situation developed after I left. During my last year or so, there was a family sending their kids to Prospect, but I think they were riding down on their own. I hope things are working okay now. Housing has improved, especially in the new Sleepy Hollow. Would you believe that one Easter Sunday morning, at that time we had a record for snow on the ground, there was close to 22 feet on the ground (45). You can imagine how high it was on some of those flat roofs in Steel Circle (46).
That was the record year, 1983.
I called on all employees to help us that Easter. We had our crews out and people on the roofs shoveling snow. The sun was out, but here we were shoveling frantically when people elsewhere were picking up Easter eggs. What an experience!
You also asked if Jarvis or Forbes had any difficulty integrating with the protection rangers. Both of them had been rangers, and I tried to foster rangers being resource management oriented too. They worked together hand in glove.
Did you attend those early meetings for the lake project? I know some of them took place in Corvallis.
Yes! In fact I had them out to my house. See, I had a home in Corvallis (47). Yes, we had people there from a number of institutions. It was a very good meeting. We were getting things started, so I attended. I can’t remember who initiated it, but it was something that we felt would be essential to the research program having credibility (48).
