Digital Exhibits

Al Weisendanger oral history recording

An audio recording of an oral history of Al Weisendanger, Director of Keep Oregon Green, about his long career in forestry and the Keep Green movement. From the age of 16, Weisendanger began working in forestry and found his calling relating to young students to explain forest practices and fire prevention. He talks about the Keep Oregon Green organization educating people on fire prevention as well as Oregon’s Green Guard to encourage young people to get involved. He talks about Smokey the Bear, involvement in fairs and parades, and where most of the fire prevention advertisements go to in order to lessen the amount of fires in Oregon. They remember large fires that had happened recently to the interview and how each county had help from the forest service. Weisendanger comments on Oregon being the only state with a young program for the forest service and funds preventing him to sending materials to other states. He also talks about the importance of watchmen placed in the forest to look out for fires and raise the alarm as well as having planes that can quickly get over the fire and help put it out. The recording starts in the middle of a conversation and has frequent pauses as the tape gets paused.

Weisendanger, Al

Ellis Lucia papers

Forests and forestry

Oregon

1 sound cassette (55 min.)

English

PUA_OH_46

In Copyright

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Pacific University Archives

Lucia, Ellis

Audiocassettes

Sound