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Correspondence regarding development of Shearer airstrip Item Info
- Title:
- Correspondence regarding development of Shearer airstrip
- Creator:
- Brooks, J. F.
- Creator Title:
- Regional Forest Supervisor
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1933-05-02
- Description:
- This series of memoranda demonstrates the contentious nature of the Shearer airstrip, even in 1933 when it was initially considered by Forest Service administrators as a possible landing site. Most arguments centered on safety concerns regarding the fitness of the land: the runway would be short, the landing field would need to be drained, and a Forest Service employee would have to be stationed at the airstrip to maintain good landing conditions. These issues and others would plague the Shearer airstrip for the next sixty years.
- Subjects:
- shearer airstrip
- Section:
- Wilderness Pages
- Location:
- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (Idaho and Mont.)
- Idaho County:
- Idaho County
- Latitude:
- 45.991416
- Longitude:
- -114.839946
- Publisher:
- Unpublished
- Source:
- NARA Seattle
- Original URL:
- https://sbw.lib.uidaho.edu/pages.html
- Regional Office Number:
- R1 E. Improvement; RG95-G2 A293 Box 1
- Source Identifier:
- Shearer_Landing_Field_05-02-33
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- eng
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Correspondence regarding development of Shearer airstrip", The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/sbw/items/sbw128.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/