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Title |
An Interview with Dave Rosgen |
Catalog Number |
2021.074.046 |
Object Name |
Recording, Video |
Scope & Content |
An Interview with Dave Rosgen >>Oral history interview with Dave Rosgen, Denver, CO, May 24, 2022 >> In this interview, Dave Rosgen recounts his storied career as part of the first generation of wildland hydrologists hired by the Forest Service in the 1960s. He started as a smokejumper in McCall, Idaho, in 1961. He graduated from the forestry program at Humboldt State University and began as a forester on the Canyon Ranger District of the Clearwater National Forest. He was shocked by the lack of almost any measures taken to prevent erosion and protect the waterways of the forest. He transferred to the Kaniksu National Forest in Sandpoint, Idaho, where he was converted into a 1315 hydrologist position. From there, he transferred to Fort Collins, Colorado, where he spent the next ten years on the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest as a hydrologist, collecting data on sedimentation, stream flow, and erosion. He resigned from the Forest Service in protest after his supervisors and the Denver Water Board decided not to require instream flows to the Two Forks Dam, a decision Rosgen felt would dry up donor streams. He is still revered within the community of wildland hydrologists, and many of his measurement and assessment methods have become standard practices to this day. PASTE LINK BELOW INTO BROWSER TO VIEW INTERVIEW https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TXrqzYXHI92_EJ_hLFU9b-nZypK9u0XW/view?usp=sharing |
Additional File |
Click here to view transcript. |
Year Range from |
2022 |
Year Range to |
2022 |
People |
Rosgen, Dave |
Subjects |
Clearwater NF Kaniksu NF Arapaho-Roosevelt NF |
Search Terms |
Oral History Watershed Water Rights Water Wild & Scenic Rivers Research |
Catalog date |
2023-03-02 |
Collection |
Oral History |