Was that different from the other agencies?
I can’t tell you that. I think there were Forest Service exams going on, what they called Junior Forester exams in that time.
BLM too?
I think there must have been since BLM was established , in what, 1946?
But they had a Forester here since ’37 and he stayed until ’57, but I’m not sure if there was much contact.
Well there wasn’t, as far as between the park anyway.
I’ve talked to him in Medford.
Okay, But I imagine that there were examinations and I’m pretty sure there were for the Forest Service, but there wasn’t for the Park Service. There were other examinations. I can recall taking a least one exam for Deputy U.S. Marshall. I was on their register for Deputy U.S. Marshall. Now the main reason for taking these exams was just for practice. I think all of us that were trying to get on with the Park Service were taking all the exams that we could. I’m sure I took more than that, but I don’t recall now.
What were some of your duties?
Well, some of it was just to stay alive with the amount of snow that we had. Now that sounds a little strange because the seasons definitely have changed at least in the last three or four years, as you probably have seen. There hasn’t been much snow in the Cascades in that time. But we had a lot of snow in those years. Now there was one year, and I think it was probably the second year we were here, where you could, no, it was later than that, where we drove completely around the Rim at around Thanksgiving time, and that’s very unusual. But I also remember that one year at Halloween it was snowing like mad and we must have had four feet of snow on the ground at that time. So that was the first of November. We had one year here, one January, where it snowed 333 inches in January alone. And that’s a bunch of snow! We saw the sun shine about two hours that month. A lot of our work around here during those years, and every year, was a pretty heavy snow year during the period 1946-1950 when I left. I left before the winter of 1950-51.
