ENDNOTES 



1 IS nt-partnicnt i)t A^riciiltiirc, Hiircmi of Land Management, The I'uhlic land Records, footnotes to 

 American history. 19S9. The public lands were acquired through treaty or purchase or ceded by the 

 original 13 states. 



1. The Hell Gate National Forest, created on October 3, 1905, included all the Rock Creek lands that were 

 to become the Deerlodge and Lolo National Forests. When the Missoula National Forest was created 

 on July 1. 1908, part of the Hell Gate National Forest in the Rock Creek drainage was included. The 

 Deerlodge National Forest also was created on July 1, 1908, but it wasn't until December 16, 1931 that 

 Rock Creek lands from the Hell Gate and Missoula National Forests were transferred to the Deerlodge 

 On the same day, the remainder of Missoula National Forest lands in the Rock Creek drainage were 

 transferred to the Lolo National Forest (which had been created on September 20, 1906). 



3. U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Principal Laws Relating to Forest Service Activities. Organic Ad- 

 ministration Act of 1897, p. 5. 



4. U.S. Forest Service, Lolo National Forest, Lower Rock Creek Planning Unit Draft, 1977, p. 48. 



5. Darlene Olson, Up The Creek. History of Early Settlers on Rock Creek, Bonita and Quigley, p. 21. To- 

 day, smokejumpers, helicopter crews, and planes based in Missoula help fight fires in the Rock Creek 

 drainage. The potential for insect infestations, root rot and canopy fires increases with fire suppres- 

 sion, says Dave Stack, Missoula District Ranger, Lolo National Forest. See "Fire Ecology and Its Manage- 

 ment Implications in Ponderosa Pine Forests," by Stephen F. Arno, Washington State University 

 Cooperative Extension Service Symposium, 1988. 



6. Arnold W Bolle, "The Bitterroot Revisited: A University Review of the Forest Service, " The Public Land 

 Review, p. 3- 



7 Ibid., p. 2. 



8. Dr. Gary Eudaily, M.D.. Western Montana Sportsman's Association, personal interview. October, 1990. 



9 For graphs and statistics on timber harvests, see Appendix E. 



10. "The logging degradation was taking place beyond the average person's view, " says self-employed 

 Missoula businessman Robert Bassett, a founding member of the Montana Sierra Club Group. "But 

 we hunted up there and saw it at the head of Kitchen Gulch and Gilbert Creek " (Telephone interview, 

 October, 1990.) Tom Huff, a founding member of the West Slope Chapter of Trout Unlimited and pro- 

 fessor at the University of Montana School of Law, recalls, '"It looked like a war zone up there." (Telephone 

 mterview, October, 1990.) 



11 .Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department. Issue Paper: Major Issue, Rock Creek and Forest Manage- 

 ment, October 25, 1984. 



12. Letter to Orville Daniels and Frank Salomonsen from .'Xdam .Michnevich and others reviewing Rock 

 Creek agreements, February 15, 1985. 



13 The bridge was completed in 1971, according to Adam .Michnevich. 



l4. Gary Eudaily is also a longtime Rock Creek cabin owner who worked his wav through college on Forest 

 Service summer crews in the drainage. 



15 Orville Daniels, Lolo National Forest superviscjr. personal interview. (.October. 1990 



