2003. Port Orford cedar house, sided with POC bark, built by the CCC in 1936. China Flat CCC camp. Powers Ranger District, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.

Port Orford cedar house, sided with POC bark, built by the CCC in 1936. China Flat CCC camp. Powers Ranger District, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon.

 

See a 1936 photo of this house under construction: www.flickr.com/photos/151887236@N05/28631151347/in/datepo...

 

... a 2008 article on the restoration of this house: blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2009/01/cedar_bark_house...

 

... and a 2015 Forest Service photo: www.flickr.com/photos/forestservicenw/24630582083/in/date...

 

Photo by: Richard Sniezko

Date: June 4, 2003

 

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.

Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.

 

Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...

 

Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth

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