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Roger Allin is interviewed by Bill Schneider and Ted Swem in Fort Collins, Colorado on July 7, 1993 [sound recording].
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Roger Allin is interviewed by Bill Schneider and Ted Swem in Fort Collins, Colorado on July 7, 1993 [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
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2 sound cassettes (about 60 min.) : analog.
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Also included with National Park Service collection - Gates of the Arctic.
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Recorded on July 7, 1993 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Abstract:
ORAL HISTORY 93-15-36 Roger Allin talks about his father and grandfather and their influence on his professional life, his degree in wildlife management from Minneapolis, his work in fisheries management, his love for working outdoors, working for the Fish and Wildlife Service doing fresh water fishery studies in Alaska, flying in Alaska for his work, taking Ted Swem and others in the National Park Service on tours, relationship between National Park Service and the territorial government, George Collins, planning in Alaska for the National Park Service, working at preserving and protecting natural lands, public access to public lands, withdrawing lands from Bureau of Land Management lands for recreational use, Claire Engel, Wood-Tikchik area, withdrawals of land for public access to fishing, listing national significance areas for the National Park Service, Walrus Islands, Aniakchak crater, Arrigetch Peaks, the search for Clarence Rhodes, Brooks Range, enjoying the Alaska wilderness, accessing Gates of the Arctic by plane, his interest in the Wrangell-St. Elias area, fisheries research in the Wrangell-St. Elias area, McCarthy, ecological aspects of interest in the Wrangell-St. Elias region, Dick Leonard, his trip into the Wrangell Mountains in the late 1950s, working as a biologist in addition to fisheries, Park Service interest in Roger's areas of interest, and Lake Clark trips.
ORAL HISTORY 93-15-37 Roger Allin talks about the Lake Clark area, Alaska resources study, Dorothy Varian, recreation plan survey, Roscoe Bell and Walrus Islands, Earl Plourde, working for the Bureau of Recreation, Dan Beard, his move to Santa Fe, New Mexico to work for the National Park Service as an assistant regional director, working as superintendent for the Everglades National Park, what he thinks about consolidated schools and how it has damaged the culture of the Natives, subsistence economy, Walter Hickel, managing resources for the Natives, allowing subsistence lifestyle on Park Service lands, his career after leaving Alaska, working in Washington, D.C., working as the superintendent at Lake Mead and Olympic National Parks, and his life after retirement.
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