Your TR Source
National Park Service Associate Director Demaray notes that no comment can be made until the report on the field investigation is filed concerning the Maltese Cross Ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1939-10-31
Olaf T. Hagen notes a request from Superintendent Hanks for bullets found in a tree at Elkhorn Ranch to be tested. The request was denied and bullets stored in a safe in Omaha, Nebraska.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-07-26
Superintendent Hanks requests a ballistics test on bullets found in a tree at Elkhorn Ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-07-18
Report contains information from Civilian Conservation Corp Landscape Foreman Chandler D. Fairbank who was stationed at Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) North Park. Report written from memory includes notes, drawings, and photos for different locations in and around the South Park of the RDA, primarily the De Mores Monument in Medora and Peaceful Valley Ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1935-1940
The goal of the field investigation is to determine the value of the badlands and Killdeer Mountains for national park or national monument status. The report includes information on the area’s cultural and natural history and scientific demographic information. Report concludes that there is enough value for a national monument to be created with at least 750,000 acres.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1939
Susan Schultz, Olympic National Park historian, sends Larry a draft history of the events leading up to the creation of Olympic National Park. The history was created to assist Karen Schlom with preparations for events celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the park’s creation.
1988-05-16
Regional Supervisor of Historic Sites Hagen provides a brief history of the area containing Pinnacles National Monument, tracing its history from the time of Spanish occupation of the region and the possible first discovery of the Pinnacle rock formations by Captain George Vancouver. While Hagen notes that there is some evidence of prehistoric occupation of the area, he says that it does not appear to have supported permanent populations, and in fact “received little attention until long after the American occupation of California.” He notes that the area is believed to have been used as a hide-out for outlaws at one point.
1941-04-28
Bureau of Land Management Director Rasmussen expresses approval of the preliminary report by the National Park Service which describes the north unit of the park as being suitable for wilderness designation and the south unit as being unsuitable.
1970-12-15