June English Forestry Collection


From 1978 until her death in 1987, Mrs June English worked as an historian and researcher for the Pineridge District of the Sierra National Forest. Her employment was funded under the Older Americans Program. Mrs English was an established researcher for many years before she assisted the Forest Service, and had been active in the Fresno County Historical Society and the Fresno Genealogical Society. One of the projects she was most proud of was her meticulous index of clippings, grazing permits, mining and homesteading claims, oral histories, and other historical sources relating to the human history of the Sierra Nevada foothills and the Sierra National Forest.

The English/Forestry Collection consists of forty-two 12"- long file boxes of 3"x5" index cards and eleven 11"x15"x12" cardboard storage boxes of original and photocopied indexed sources mentioned above, as well as a few original photographs and some maps. The index cards have been moved to library card catalogue drawers just as they were arranged in the file boxes, and the research materials have been transferred intact into acid-free storage boxes. This accumulation of material had been sorted by Mrs English into the subjects listed on the following pages. The subject descriptions, except for some minor clarifications, are those assigned by her.

Mrs English's procedure was to use original or photocopied materials and underline in red those items she wished to index. She would sometimes annotate the items with some modifying comments based on her extensive knowledge of the subject. She would then make an index card with the subject she assigned and the location in one of the eleven boxes, which were lettered A-D, E.1, E.2, F-J. She would then indicate the specific subject file within the box and the exact item within the file. The items within the files consist of one or more sheets so that a specific item in a file may consist of many individual interrelated sheets. When consulting the following list, please keep in mind that the item notation after the subject may contain many individual pages even though only "1 item" is indicated.


Click here to see the index of the June English Forest Collection photographs

Box A: Accidents - Structures

Box B: Civilian Conservation Corps / Youth Conservation Corps

Box C: Forest Management - Women

Box D: Grazing Permits

Box E.1: Early Residents A-L

Box E.2: Early Residents M-Z

Box F: Forest Service Personnel - Sierra Ranger

Box G: Place Names

Box H: Sawmills, Logging, Indians

Box I: Hydro Projects

Box J: Mines - Packers


Oral Histories and Diaries

Separates location refers to the Separates File at
Sierra National Forest Headquarters, Fresno.

All typescripts are photocopies.


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