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University of Washington Pack Forest, Friday Harbor, Washington ca. 1949
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| Clip Title | University of Washington Pack Forest, Friday Harbor, Washington ca. 1949 |
| Clip Summary | Flag being raised by the Pack Forest sign, young men working in forest, cutting down trees, measuring trees, planting trees |
| Duration | 2 min., 11 sec. |
| Digital Format | Video |
| Original Source Title | UW Campus Life: misc, Reel #8 |
| Original Source Summary | Friday Harbor, boats, octopus under rock in tide pool, swimming around, man pulls it out and places it in tank being
filled with salt water; rookery on cliff with gull chicks, banding of birds; Seattle: ships, boats, fishing, skyline
toward water and Olympic Mountains; Friday Harbor, meadows, gravestone on hill; couple walking in Arboretum, Arboretum
visitors center tour; UW Forestry Timber camp activities; lumber mill; Mount Rainier from lookout |
| Participants/Performers | Covington, Duane
Grondal, Bror L.
Markworth, Gordon |
| Notes | Titles added by UW Special Collections.
The following information was provided by respondents to requests for information from UW Week "Lost & Found Films" series, 2009-10.
The lumber mill burner looks like the one at Eatonville, which would be close to Pack Forest. The mill has been abandoned for a long time, even before 1980. If you look at Google images and type "Eatonville lumber" you will find a picture of the burn while it was still standing. Perhaps you should contact the South Pierce County Historical Society P.O. Box 1966, Eatonville, WA 98328 and see if they anything to add. -Karen Portzer
I would guess that the man in tie in the middle of the three is Hugo Winkenwerder, former Dean of Forestry. -Charles Easterberg
The Lost and Found Films: The video "Pack Forest" provides a wonderful glimpse into the history of one of the University of Washington's (UW) many research and education field stations, and it will make a great addition to Pack Forest's collection of historical artifacts. Now home to the School of Forest Resources' Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest, the forest is a research, demonstration, and educational resource for the academic community and the public. The Center's mission - to discover, teach, and demonstrate the concepts of sustainable forestry - includes a special focus on the School's integrating strategic theme of sustainability in natural and managed environments. For a recent School of Forest Resources newsletter article on Pack Forest, that provides information on current research initiatives at Pack, see http://www.cfr.washington.edu/aboutTheSchool/onlineNewsletter/10Winter/CSFResearch.shtml. For history to provide background for the video: In 1926, conservationist and east coast lumberman Charles Lathrop Pack bequeathed a cash gift to the UW's College of Forestry (later the College of Forest Resources and now the School of Forest Resources (SFR)), enabling the purchase of an initial 334 acres of forestland to be used for research and demonstration purposes. Today, the Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest encompasses 4, 300 acres of third-party certified working forestland, and has benefited from additional generous gifts that have enhanced its programs and facilities. The video begins by showing scenes of students felling fire-scarred timber at Pack Forest. When the original 334 acres of forestland were purchased, much of the land had recently burned in wildfires that spread over thousands of acres. This salvaged timber was harvested and the wood was either milled on site at the forest's own sawmill or sold to the local Eatonville mill (shown in the video at the 1:37 mark). The wood was used in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps to build the cabins, dining hall, classroom, and other buildings that are still in use today. This burned over land also provided an ideal laboratory to study forest seedlings and reforestation. Experimental plantings of a number of tree species were carried out, as was the first research into forest nutrition and fertilization in the western U.S. The nursery at the main entrance to the forest is shown at the 0:40 mark. Many of those seedlings are still growing today, though they're now 70 year old trees! As seen throughout the video, for more than 80 years Pack Forest has provided a forested classroom for SFR students, faculty, and affiliates. For many years, forest management undergraduates spent a quarter of their academic year in residency at Pack Forest. Students had an active hand in many aspects of the management of the forest. They learned how to grow seedlings in Pack's tree nursery; how to plant and take care of seedlings; land surveying and road construction; and forest management, silviculture, and mensuration. Although no longer used for undergraduate residency, Pack Forest provides facilities for lab exercises, case study classes, and continuing and public education. For answers to specific questions related to the video: The men in suits and ties are, from left to right: Duane Covington, manager of Pack Forest from Nov 1929 until his death in an accident on the forest in 1955; Professor Bror L. Grondal, forest products professor; and Dean Gordon Markworth (Dean from 1945-1964). Photos from this film shoot can be found on page 173 of Henry Schmitz, The Long Road Travelled, an account of forestry at the University of Washington, 1973 (published by the Arboretum Foundation; out of print but available in several UW Libraries collections). More history about Pack Forest and its current research and educational programs can be found at the forest's website at www.packforest.org. You can also keep up with Pack Forest activities by becoming a fan of Pack Forest at http://www.facebook.com/packforest. Thank you for the opportunity to provide information about C.L. Pack Experimental Forest, a valuable resource for teaching and research about sustainable forest management in the Pacific Northwest. This information was compiled by Duane Emmons, Forest Manager, and Cecilia Paul, Communications Director, of the School of Forest Resources. Sincerely, Gregory J. Ettl, Director Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest
My late husband, David R.M. Scott, came with our family to theCollege of Forestry (as it was known then) faculty in the fall of 1955.From the summer of 1956 until he retired, he taught a course in forest ecologyat Pack Forest (during summer quarter). The whole family moved to Packand we loved it. We occupied the cottage that's shown briefly in the film. A quarter at Pack Forest was required for a degree in forestry(not forest products). Students attended during spring quarter before wearrived, but it had been changed to summer quarter by 1955. Now I believeit is back to spring quarter and I don't know whether it is a requirement ornot. The young man in the photograph showing two or three men in suitsand ties is Dean Gordon Marckworth. There was an operating sawmill at Pack in those days, so studentshad a chance to learn what goes on there. The forest timber was processedin the sawmill and I understand that it was used on campus. A surveying course was taught at Pack also, as well asmensuration, the measurement of trees, which is shown in severalpictures. These subjects were taught by two other faculty members. Several of Prof. Scott's graduate students did their research atPack Forest. Hope this helps a bit! Carolyn Scott (Mrs. David R.M. Scott)
Hannah – I just watched Lost & Found Films: Pack Forest in University Week. My dad, Gordon D. Marckworth, Dean of the College of Forestry is the man sitting on the right in the group of "men in suits and ties sitting around talking". I recognize the other two men but don't remember their names. I'll see if my brother or sister recognize them. Pack Forest was a demonstration forest and students spent time there each summer doing research and learning forest management skills. When I was a child our family spent a month or six weeks there each summer while my dad taught. I don't really know the specifics of the college activities. I was just one of a group of faculty kids who got to play in the woods – and it was great. Lois M Stanford (Peg Marckworth's sister) wrote: Re the question about the three men "in suits" shown in the middle of the film, the one on the right (with the pipe) is my father, Gordon D. Marckworth, Dean of the College of Forestry.I believe the others are: Dr Bror Grondal (check spelling), asenior member of the College of Forestry faculty, in the middle, and Duane Covington, Resident Manager of Pack Forest, on the left. You might also be interested to know that the film segment immediately following the single picture of Dean Marckworth shows the call to a meal at the Pack Forest cookhouse. A large metaltriangle hung on the cookhouse porch and it was beaten lustily with a metal bar to signal that the meal was on. (There is a very short clip ofthis.) The next segment of the film shows the starving students hurrying up the cookhouse steps. There was a small working mill on the forest, and that may be the one shown in the film. The last segment of the film shows the structure always called "the Pack Forest lookout" -- a no-longer-used fire tower. I remember it being about 35 steps high, and the view from the top was of Mt Rainier, about 20 miles away across the valley. I hope this information from my childhood memories is helpful. Lois Marckworth Stanford
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest
Demonstration forests--Washington (State)--Eatonville
Sustainable forestry--Washington (State)
Trees--Seedlings
Winkenwerder, Hugo
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| Genres (LCSH) | Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Film clips
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Eatonville |
| Date Created | ca. 1949 |
| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Special Collections Moving Image Collection |
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| Repository Collection | University of Washington Audio Visual Services Materials Library, 94-1, VC 26 |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Digital streaming QuickTime video file made from DVCAM master, by Special Collections at UW Media Center, Odegaard Library, on February 2, 2010, using Quick Time, version 7.6 |
| Rights | Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the repository for details |
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