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The Lake of the Woods Ranger Station is a United States Forest Service compound consisting of eight buildings overlooking Lake of the Woods in the Fremont-Winema National Forests of southern Oregon. All of the ranger station structures were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1937 and 1939. Today, the compound serves as a Forest Service work center, and the old ranger station office is a visitor center. The ranger station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. == History == In the early 20th century, the forest road networks were not well developed. To facilitate work in National Forests, the Forest Service built district ranger stations at strategic locations within the forest to house full-time employees and provide logistics support to fire patrols and project crews working in remote areas of the forest. After World War II, the Forest Service greatly expanded its road network, allowing employees to get to most forest areas within a few hours. As a result, many of the more isolated ranger stations were closed or converted to summer guard stations.〔( "A Bit of History" ), Recreation Rentals of the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest Region, United States Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Portland, Oregon, 8 February 2010.〕〔Jacoby, Jayson, "Rustic Forest Service Cabins Available for Rent", ''Baker City Herald'', Baker City, Oregon, 27 April 2006.〕 The historic Lake of the Woods Ranger Station was established during this early period and is still used by Forest Service crews today.〔Rose, Cathleen E. and M.S. Jesse Ford, ("Development History" ), ''Land Use and Fisheries History in the Lake of the Woods Watershed'', Report for the Fremont-Winema National Forest by the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, December 2004, p. 9.〕〔Joslin, Les, ("Lake of the Woods Ranger Station" ), ''Uncle Sam’s Cabins'', Wilderness Association, Bend, Oregon, 1995, pp. 214–216.〕 In 1898, the Cascade Forest Reserve was created in southern Oregon. The forest area around Lake of the Woods became part of the reserve. The forest was managed as part of that Cascade reserve until 1908, when the area was transferred to the Crater National Forest. The Forest Service issued the first residential use permit for a private cabin in the Lake of the Woods area in 1916. In 1920, the Forest Service built a public campground at the lake. The site was very popular, with 1,850 summer visitors using the campground the first year it open. In 1923, the road into the Lake of the Woods area was improved. That same year, the Forest Service built a second campground to accommodate the increasing number of people vacationing at the lake. In 1926, the Forest Service issued a permit allowing the ''Lake of the Woods Recreation Company'' to build a resort at the lake. During this period, the only Forest Service facility at Lake of the Woods was a small log cabin originally built by a fur trapper, possibly around 1900. In 1929, the Forest Service replaced the cabin with a much larger ranger office at the north end of the lake.〔〔Rose, Cathleen E. and M.S. Jesse Ford, ("Background" ), ''Land Use and Fisheries History in the Lake of the Woods Watershed'', Report for the Fremont-Winema National Forest by the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, December 2004, p. 1.〕 In 1932, the Lake of the Woods Ranger Station was transferred to the Rogue River National Forest along with the lake side campgrounds and the surrounding forest. In the mid-1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a number of new buildings at the ranger station. All of the structures but one were built in the Cascadian rustic style.〔〔 ( "Lake of the Woods Ranger Station (Work Center) " ), National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form, National Park Service, United States Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., 8 April 1986.〕 In 1961, the Forest Service transferred the Lake of the Woods and the surrounding forest to the newly formed Winema National Forest. In 2002, the Winema National Forest was administratively combined with the Fremont National Forest, becoming the Fremont-Winema National Forests. The Winema National Forest’s Klamath Ranger District still uses the ranger station as a work center while the old office is now a visitor center during the summer months.〔〔〔("About the Forest" ), Fremont-Winema National Forests, United States Department of Agriculture, Lakeview, Oregon, 23 October 2011.〕 All eight of the ranger station buildings are historically important and are still in excellent condition. Because the Lake of the Woods Ranger Station is of unique historic value as an early Forest Service ranger station, the compound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 8 April 1986. The historic district covers approximately .〔〔〔("Lake of the Woods Ranger Station" ), Oregon Historic Site Database, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Salem, Oregon, 13 October 2011.〕〔("Lake of the Wood Ranger Station—Work Center" ), Archiplanet, ''www.archiplanet.org '', 13 October 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake of the Woods Ranger Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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