Lake Roosevelt Administrative History

¹ USBR, "Plan of Joint Investigations, Columbia Basin Irrigation Project," Memorandum No. 2, 1 Nov. 1939: 4-19, file Columbia Basin Area I, 1939, box 88, RG 187, NARA-PAR.

² Paul C. Pitzer, Grand Coulee: Harnessing A Dream (Pullman: WSU Press, 1994), 271-272; "Joint Investigations, Columbia Basin Project," Reclamation Era 30 (Aug. 1940): 219.

³ USBR, "Plan of Joint Investigations, Columbia Basin Irrigation Project," Memorandum No. 2, 1 Nov. 1939: 17-18, file Columbia Basin Area I, 1939, box 88, RG 187, NARA-PAR

⁴ USBR, Recreational Development of Roosevelt Lake: Columbia Basin Joint Investigations, Problem 26 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945), iv.

⁵ Conrad L. Wirth, NPS Supervisor of Recreation and Land Planning, to NPS Acting Regional Director, 26 Oct. 1939, file 3, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁶ USBR, Problem 26, iv.

⁷ NPS Regional Director to [Claude E.] Greider, NPS State Supervisor, 4 Nov. 1939, file 3, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁸ Barry Mackintosh, The National Parks: Shaping the System (Washington, D.C.: NPS, 1985), 52-53; NPS, A Study of the Park and Recreation Problem of the United States (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1941), vi-vii.

⁹ NPS, Park and Recreation Problem, vi-vii, 53-54; Elmo R. Richardson, Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower Era (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1973), 14, 52-53; Mackintosh, Shaping the System, 52, 56; H. W. Bashore, USBR Commissioner, to NPS Director, 10 May 1945, LARO.94.3249.2, LARO.HQ.ADM.

¹⁰ John E. White, NPS Regional Director, to Earle S. Draper, Director of Department of Regional Planning Studies, Tennessee Valley Authority, 22 Oct. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹¹ Marshall N. Dana, District Chairman, by R. F. Bessey, Consultant, to Harland Bartholomew, Consultant, 1 May 1936, file Recreation — Regional, Recreation Comm. 1936, box 49, RG 187, NARA-PAR.

¹² C. E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to Edward W. Torbert, USBR Field Coordinator, 30 Jan. 1940, file 3, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Greider to Major A. E. McKennett, Corps of Engineers, 9 April 1940, file 3, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Greider to Torbert, 4 Oct. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; "Status of Study for Problem No. 26," draft, 29 Oct. 1940: 1-2, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; "A Committee Progress Report, Problem No. 26, Joint Investigations Columbia Basin Irrigation Project," 15 Nov. 1940: 1-2, file Columbia Basin Area I, 1940, box 107, RG 187, NARA-PAR; Torbert to Greider, 26 Oct. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹³ C. E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to NPS Regional Director, 29 Oct. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁴ NPS Regional Director to NPS Director, 31 Oct. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; "Digest of Minutes of Committee Meeting on Problem No. 26, Joint Investigation Columbia Basin Irrigation Project," 15 Nov. 1940: 8-9, file Columbia Basin Area I, box 107, RG 187, NARA-PAR; A. E. Demaray, NPS Associate Director, telegram to NPS Regional Director, 26 Nov. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; [Claude E.] Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to Col. White, NPS Regional Director, 16 Dec. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁵ Spokesman-Review, 8 Jan. 1939, letters column; A. E. Demaray, NPS Associate Director, to NPS Acting Regional Director, 26 Feb. 1940, file 3, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 18 April 1945, file 9, box 8, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁶ C. E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to NPS Regional Director, 28 Nov. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Greider to F. A. Banks, USBR Supervising Engineer, 2 Dec. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁷ John R. White, NPS Regional Director, telegram to Phillip [sic] Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, 7 March 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Conrad L. Wirth, NPS Supervisor of Recreation and Land Planning, to NPS Regional Director, 12 March 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Herbert Maier, NPS Acting Regional Director, telegram to NPS Director, 14 March 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Kearney to Claude E. Greider, NPS State Supervisor, 17 April 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁸ Herbert Maier, NPS Acting Regional Director, telegram to Philip Kearny [sic], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, 10 April 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁹ Phil Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude E. Greider, NPS State Supervisor, 17 April 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

²⁰ Phil Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to [Claude E.] Greider, NPS State Supervisor, 24 May 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; NPS Acting Regional Director to Kearney, 1 Aug. 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Raymond E. Hoyt, NPS Chief of Recreation Planning Division, to Kearney, 26 Aug. 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Kearney to NPS Regional Director, 29 Aug. 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

²¹ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS State Supervisor, 8 Sept. 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

²² Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS State Supervisor, 20 Sept. 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

²³ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS State Supervisor, 12 July 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

²⁴ Philip W. Kearney, "Progress Report on Land Use Study — Columbia River Reservoir — for the period June 22 to 28, 1941," file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

²⁵ "Digest of Minutes, Committee Meeting on Problem No. 26, Joint Investigation Columbia Basin Irrigation Project," Olympia, 22 May 1941: 3-4, 6-8, file Columbia Basin Area — Problem No. 26 1941, box 126, RG 187, NARA-PAR.

²⁶ Ibid., 5.

²⁷ Philip W. Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude E. Greider, NPS State Supervisor, 25 April 1941, file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

²⁸ "Digest of Minutes, Committee Meeting on Problem No. 26," 22 May 1941: 5, 9-11, file Columbia Basin Area — Problem No. 26 1941, box 126, RG 187, NARA-PAR.

²⁹ Ibid., 12-13, 16.

³⁰ F. A. Banks, USBR Supervising Engineer, to USBR Commissioner, 9 July 1941, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, USBR Boise.

³¹ Philip W. Kearney, "Progress Report on Land Use Study, Columbia River Reservoir — for the period June 30 to July 5, 1941," file 5, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS State Supervisor, 18 July 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; NPS Associate Landscape Architect, "Progress Report on Land Use Study — Columbia River Reservoir for the period Oct. 13, to Oct. 18, 1941," file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Raymond E. Hoyt, NPS Chief of Recreation Planning Division, and Greider to NPS Regional Director, 31 Dec. 1941, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; H. Maier, NPS Acting Regional Director, to NPS Director, 31 Dec. 1941, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Kelly Cash, former LARO Assistant Superintendent, personal communication to Nancy F. Renk, 1 March 2001.

³² F. A. Banks, USBR Supervising Engineer, to USBR Commissioner, 30 Sept. 1941, file Copy — CODA Historical Files #2, LARO.HQ.SUP; Guy D. Edwards, Superintendent, Boulder Dam NRA, to NPS Regional Director, 29 Sept. 1941, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Stephen R. Tripp, NPS Administrative Assistant, to NPS Director, 16 Feb. 1942, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; "Agreement Between the Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service Relating to the Development and Use of the Grand Coulee Reservoir Area," 22 July 1942, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, USBR Boise.

³³ Conrad L. Wirth, NPS Acting Director, to NPS Regional Director, 20 Oct. 1941, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

³⁴ C. E. Greider, NPS State Supervisor, to NPS Regional Director, 26 Nov. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; [Ernest A.] Davidson, NPS Regional Chief of Planning, to Chairman, Committee on Joint Investigations, Problem No. 26, 18 Nov. 1941, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

³⁵ Raymond E. Hoyt, NPS Chief of Recreation Planning Division, to NPS Regional Director, 26 Nov. 1941, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

³⁶ Ernest A. Davidson, NPS Regional Landscape Architect, to NPS Regional Director, 13 Nov. 1940, file 2, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, and Philip W. Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to NPS Regional Director, 30 July 1943, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM.

³⁷ Stephen R. Tripp, NPS Administrative Assistant, to NPS Director, 16 Feb. 1942, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

³⁸ NBD [Newton B. Drury], NPS Director, to [Conrad] Wirth, NPS Assistant Director, 9 March 1942, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR (time of 11:15 p.m. was written on the note).

³⁹ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS Recreation Planner, 28 June 1941, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; USBR, Problem 26, 17, 19-20; Charles B. Hosmer, Jr., Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949, v. 1 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981), 718-720.

⁴⁰ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS Recreation Planner, 4 July 1942, file 3, box 3 RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴¹ C. E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to Edward N. Torbert, USBR Field Coordinator, 9 July 1942, file 1, box 5, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴² Philip W. Kearney, "Progress Report on Land Use Study, Columbia River Reservoir, for the Period March 15 to 31, 1942," file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR ; Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to NPS Regional Director, 19 March 1942, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴³ Philip W. Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to NPS Regional Director, 6 Feb. 1942, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴⁴ R. D. Waterhouse, NPS Regional Engineer, to NPS Regional Director, 30 March 1942, file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴⁵ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS Recreation Planner, 27 April 1942, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴⁶ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS Recreation Planner, 16 April 1942, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴⁷ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider],NPS Recreation Planner, 27 April 1942, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Kearney, "Progress Report — Master Plans — Columbia River Reservoir Area for the period April 12 to April 25, 1942," file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴⁸ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS Recreation Planner, 19 June 1942, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁴⁹ Phil [Kearney], NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to Claude [Greider], NPS Recreation Planner, 4 July 1942, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁵⁰ Philip W. Kearney, "Progress Report on Land Use Study, Columbia River Reservoir, for the Period March 15 to 31, 1942," file 1, box 2, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; "Agreement Between the Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service Relating to the Development and Use of the Grand Coulee Reservoir Area," 22 July 1942, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, USBR Boise; [Claude E. Greider], "A Very Brief History of National Park Service Activities in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake Area," ca. 1 Feb. 1946, file H14 Project Histories (USBR), LARO.HQ.ADM; Claude G[reider], NPS Recreation Planner, handwritten report to Major [Owen A.] Tomlinson and H. Maier, NPS Regional Office, 29 Dec. [1942], file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁵¹ F. A. Gross, Colville Indian Agency Superintendent, to C. E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, 15 July 1943, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, USBR Boise; Greider to NPS Regional Director, 7 Sept. 1943: 3, file Copy — CODA Historical Files #2, LARO.HQ.SUP.

⁵² Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to NPS Regional Director, 7 Sept. 1943, file Copy — CODA Historical Files #2, LARO.HQ.SUP; F. A. Gross, Colville Indian Agency Superintendent, to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 4 Oct. 1943: 2-3, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR.

⁵³ C. E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to Lincoln Lumber Company, 7 Sept. 1943, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, USBR Boise; "Memorandum of Agreement Among the Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, and Office of Indian Affairs Relating to the Planning, Development, and Administration of the Coulee Dam Recreational Area," 18 Dec. 1946, part I.5, part III.8, part IV.2, file 2, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO. The Indian Zones included lands that had been acquired by Reclamation for the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. They lay above the high water mark, adjacent to the reservations. Since the signing of the Lake Roosevelt Cooperative Management Agreement in 1990, these lands and adjacent waters are referred to as the Reservation Zone.

⁵⁴ Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, and Philip W. Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to NPS Regional Director, 30 July 1943, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM; Greider to NPS Regional Director, 12 Oct. 1943, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM.

⁵⁵ Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to NPS Regional Director, 12 Oct. 1943, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM.

⁵⁶ Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, and Philip W. Kearney, NPS Associate Landscape Architect, to NPS Regional Director, 30 July 1943, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM; Herbert Maier, NPS Acting Regional Director, to Greider, 2 Oct. 1943, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM; Maier to Greider, 16 Oct. 1943, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM.

⁵⁷ NPS, "Columbia River Reservoir Area, Washington, General Report and Development Outline," June 1944: 7, file USA.3.1, LARO.HQ.100.

⁵⁸ Newton B. Drury, NPS Director, to NPS Regional Director, 11 Sept. 1944, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; F. A. Banks, USBR Supervising Engineer, to USBR Commissioner, 3 Nov. 1944, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM; Drury to NPS Regional Director, 16 Oct. 1944, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁵⁹ Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to F. A. Banks, USBR Regional Director, 14 Oct. 1943, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, USBR Boise.

⁶⁰ F. A. Banks, USBR Supervising Engineer, to USBR Acting Commissioner, 21 July 1943, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, USBR Boise; Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to NPS Director, 29 Oct. 1945, box 4, History — Coulee Dam NRA, LARO.HQ.LIB; USBR, Project History, 1944, 45; Claude G[reider], NPS Recreation Planner, handwritten report to Major [Owen A.] Tomlinson and H. Maier, NPS Regional Office, 29 Dec. [1942], file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁶¹ "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," FY1947: 1, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁶² "Memorandum of Agreement," 18 Dec. 1946: Recitals.7, file 2, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ,PAO; Act of August 7, 1946, Statutes at Large, 60, ch. 788, 885 (1946).

⁶³ Mackintosh, Shaping the System, 51-52; "Memorandum of Agreement," 18 Dec. 1946: part I.7, file 2, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO.

⁶⁴ C. Richard Neely for the DOI Regional Solicitor, to NPS Regional Director, 29 March 1985, CODA Historical Files #1, LARO.HQ.SUP; LARO, "National Park Service Administration of Coulee Dam National Recreation Area (CODA)," n.d., file A44 Multi-Party Agrmt., LARO.HQ.ADM; General Authorities Act of 1970, as quoted in LARO, Draft General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (September 1998):170.

⁶⁵ Torrison v. Baker et al., No. CS-97-285-FVS, United States District Court, Eastern District of Washington, 27 Sept. 2000: 6. For full text of the opinion, see Appendix B.

⁶⁶ Claude E. Greider, NPS Recreation Planner, to F. A. Banks, USBR Supervising Engineer, 31 May 1946, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR; Banks to USBR Commissioner, 6 June 1946, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR; "Memorandum of Agreement," 18 Dec. 1946: Part I.8, file 2, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO; USBR, Project History, 1948, 55; "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," FY1947: 3, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," FY1948: 1-2, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁶⁷ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Director, 11 Aug. 1947, file 16, box 136, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," FY1947: 3, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁶⁸ List of Bureau of Reclamation Property in use on loan basis in Coulee Dam Recreational Area, Office, Warehouse, and Field, as of Oct. 1, 1947, file 17, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO.

⁶⁹ Herbert Maier, NPS Acting Regional Director, to NPS Regional Director, 10 April 1946, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁷⁰ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to Kirby Billingsley, Columbia Basin Commission Secretary, 8 March 1948, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁷¹ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to S.F. (?) Hutton, USBR Engineer, 21 March 1949: 2, file H14 Project Histories (USBR), LARO.HQ.ADM; Greider to Kirby Billingsley, Columbia Basin Commission Secretary, 8 March 1948, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁷² A. E. Demaray, NPS Director, to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, 21 May 1951, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU.

⁷³ Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, to W. C. Howe, Spokane County Republican Central Committee, 18 April 1950, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU; Columbia Basin Interagency Committee Minutes, "Minutes of the 21^st Meeting of the CBIAC," Seattle, 17 Sept. 1948: 4, Special Collections, UI; Edwin C. Bearss, "The National Park Service and Its History Program: 1864-1986 — An Overview," Public Historian 9 (Spring 1987): 14.

⁷⁴ Claude E. Greider, LARO Supervisor, to Kirby Billingsley, Columbia Basin Commission Secretary, 30 Jan. 1948, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁷⁵ Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, to W. G. Oves, Publicity-Tourist Bureau, Spokane Chamber of Commerce, 21 Jan. 1949, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU.

⁷⁶ Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, to W. C. Howe, Spokane County Republican Central Committee, 18 April 1950, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU.

⁷⁷ Claude E. Greider, LARO Supervisor, to William S. Royce, [secretary to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives], 19 Sept. 1947, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU.

⁷⁸ William S. Royce, secretary to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, to Claude E. Greider, LARO Supervisor, 22 Oct. 1947, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU; Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, to R. T. Paine, President of Colville Chamber of Commerce, 7 Nov. 1947, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU.

⁷⁹ Claude E. Greider, LARO Supervisor, to NPS Director, 31 Dec. 1947, file 16, box 136, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁸⁰ F. S. Ludolph, Chairman, Grant County Board of County Commissioners, to Warren G. Magnuson, U.S. Senate, 7 May 1949, file 22, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW.

⁸¹ Conrad L. Wirth, NPS Acting Assistant Director, to Warren G. Magnuson, U.S. Senate, 3 June 1949, file 22, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW; Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to Kirby Billingsley, Columbia Basin Commission Secretary, 17 June 1949, file 5, box 208, accession 3181-4, Magnuson Coll., UW. Greider's title was Supervisor from November 1946 to mid-February 1948, when it changed to Superintendent; Hillary [sic] A. Tolson, compiler, Historical Listing of National Park Service Officials ([Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of the Interior/National Park Service, 1986), 70.

⁸² C. Grover Wilson, Chairman, Publicity-Tourist Bureau, Spokane Chamber of Commerce, to Warren G. Magnuson, U.S. Senate, 1 Feb. 1950, file 22, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW.

⁸³ C. S. Hutsell, Grand Coulee Navigation Co. manager, to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, 27 April 1951, file 21, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW.

⁸⁴ NPS, "Columbia River Reservoir Area, Washington: General Report and Development Outline," June 1944: 4, USA 3.1, LARO.HQ.100; "Report for Calendar Year 1944, Leases, Licenses, and Special Use Permits, Columbia River Reservoir," 1-4, file LARO.94.3249.25, LARO.HQ.ADM (figures vary somewhat from those in first document); "Memorandum of Agreement," 18 Dec. 1946, Part III.4, file 2, Box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO; F. A. Banks, USBR Regional Director, to USBR Commissioner, 22 April 1944, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR; Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to Banks, 9 Dec. 1948, file LARO.94.3249.25, LARO.HQ.ADM; Greider to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, 28 Oct. 1948: 2, 4, file Coulee Rec. Area 1948-52, box 216, Horan Coll., WSU.

⁸⁵ W. O. Kurth, Secretary, Grand Coulee Chamber of Commerce, to Warren G. Magnuson, U.S. Senate, 16 July 1949, file 21, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW.

⁸⁶ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to Kirby Billingsley, Columbia Basin Commission Secretary, 17 June 1949, file 5, box 208, accession 3181-4, Magnuson Coll., UW; LARO, "Master Plan," v. III, section F, March 1963: 4, file D18 Master Plan 1962, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO.

⁸⁷ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Regional Director, 13 Dec. 1948: 1, 3, 6, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR; F. A. Banks, USBR District Manager, to Greider, 15 Dec. 1948, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR.

⁸⁸ O. A. Tomlinson, NPS Regional Director, to Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, 25 Jan. 1949, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁸⁹ O. A. Tomlinson, NPS Regional Director, to R. J. Newell, USBR Regional Director, 4 Jan. 1949, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR; Newton B. Drury, NPS Director, to USBR Commissioner, 2 March 1949, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Michael W. Straus, USBR Commissioner, to NPS Director, n.d., file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁹⁰ F. A. Banks, USBR District Manager, to Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, 8 March 1949, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Greider to Banks, 10 March 1949, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Banks to Greider, 18 March 1949, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; O. A. Tomlinson, NPS Regional Director, to Greider, 14 March 1949, file 1, box 6, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁹¹ "Memorandum of Agreement," 18 Dec. 1946, Part III. 9, file 2, Box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO; Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to F. A. Banks, USBR District Manager, 23 Sept. 1948, file 1, box 4, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

⁹² "Rules and Regulations, Rough Draft 9-22-48": 4-8, 10-12, 21, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; [Paul Lemargie], USBR Chief of Legal Division, to USBR District Manager, 14 Oct. 1948, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Regional Director, 21 Oct. 1948, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Greider to NPS Regional Director, 5 Nov. 1948, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO.

⁹³ Confidential memo from NPS Director to NPS Regional Director, 2 May 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO.

⁹⁴ Confidential memo from NPS Director to NPS Regional Director, 2 May 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; confidential memo from O. A. Tomlinson, NPS Regional Director, to NPS Director, 10 May 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; confidential memo from Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Director, 13 May 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; confidential memo from Greider to NPS Director, 13 May 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO.

⁹⁵ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Regional Director, 8 Aug. 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO.

⁹⁶ "Title 36 — Parks, Forests, and Memorials, Chapter I — National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Part 2 — General Rules and Regulations Governing Recreational Areas, Draft 9-22-49," file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Director, 22 Sept. 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Herbert Maier, Acting NPS Regional Director, to NPS Director, 20 Oct. 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Greider to NPS Regional Director, 25 Oct. 1949, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Newton B. Drury, NPS Director, to NPS Regional Directors, 5 Dec. 1949, file 1, box 4, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; F. A. Banks, USBR District Manager, to USBR Regional Director, 14 Dec. 1949, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR.

⁹⁷ Boyd Hanna, Grand Coulee Dam Yacht Club commodore, to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, 21 Feb. 1950, file 21, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW, Mactin (?) G. White, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior, to Warren G. Magnuson, US Senate, 21 March 1950, file 21, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW; Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Regional Director, 23 March 1950, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO. It is unclear whether or not the regulations were actually published in the Federal Register at this time.

⁹⁸ Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, to Oscar Chapman, Secretary of the Interior, 12 April 1950, file 22, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW; Boyd Hanna, Grand Coulee Dam Yacht Club commodore, to Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of the Interior, 23 March 1950, file 21, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW.

⁹⁹ "Sails and Motors to Dot Dam Lake," Columbian 5 (23 Feb. 1939): 11, file 12, box 2, accession 87-4-454, WSA-CRB; Boyd Hanna, Grand Coulee Dam Yacht Club commodore, to Warren G. Magnuson, U.S. Senate, 4 June 1950, file 21, box 85, accession 3181-3, Magnuson Coll., UW; "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," FY1949: 2-3, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁰⁰ Transcript of meeting at Grand Coulee Dam Yacht Club, 1 June 1951: 1-2, 5-6, 21, file 715 Columbia Basin Project, Administration of Recreational Areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Boise USBR.

¹⁰¹ Ibid., 24.

¹⁰² R. F. Mirick, Secretary of Ancient and Honorable Association of Bass Fishermen and Duck Hunters, to Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, 5 June 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; "Memorandum Concerning the Proposed Issuance of General Rules and Regulations Governing the National Recreational Areas," [ca. July 1951]: 5, 6, 8, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; "Resolution of Grand Coulee Dam Yacht Club," 15 Oct. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; C. D. McGregor, President [Grand Coulee Gun Club], to Columbia Basin Commission, 5 Nov. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Carl Scott, President [Grand Coulee Dam Sportsmans Association], to Columbia Basin Commission, 6 Nov. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Hubert H. Walter, Administrative Assistant, Columbia Basin Commission, to Oscar Chapman, Secretary of the Interior, 27 Sept. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Chapman to Walter, 24 Oct. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; "Resolution of the Columbia Basin Commission," 6 Nov. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO.

¹⁰³ Lawrence C. Merriam, NPS Regional Director, to NPS Director, 25 Jan. 1952, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Conrad L. Wirth, NPS Director, to Secretary of Interior, 16 May 1952, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of Interior, to Mr. Walter, Columbia Basin Commission, 27 June 1952, file 36-A-1-b Roosevelt Lake Rec. Area, 1951, box 6, Dept. of Conservation, Director's Papers, WSA; W. Butler, Grand Coulee Dam Yacht Club commodore, to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, 15 Jan. 1953, file 2, box 9, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁰⁴ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Regional Director, 10 July 1951, file 2, box 9, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁰⁵ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Regional Director, 20 July 1951, file 2, box 9, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁰⁶ Clifford R. Koester to Columbia Basin Commission, 6 Nov. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; F. A. Banks, "Statement of F. A. Banks to The Columbia Basin Commission," Spokane, Washington, 6 Nov. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO.

¹⁰⁷ Completed form, "Proposed National Parks & Monuments," Grand Coulee, ca. 1935: 4, file H14 Historical Records — Grand Coulee, LARO.HQ.ADM; Frank A. Kittredge, NPS Regional Director, to NPS Director, 14 Feb. 1938, file 3, box 1, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Washington State Planning Council, A Study of Parks, Parkways and Recreational Areas, State of Washington, Works Progress Administration, July 1939: 55; Earl A. Trager, NPS Chief of Naturalist Division, "Grand Coulee, General Considerations," Aug. 1938: 2, 6, file H14 Historical Records — Grand Coulee, LARO.HQ.ADM.

¹⁰⁸ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Regional Director, 6 Dec. 1949, file 2, box 9, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹⁰⁹ Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to NPS Director, 14 April 1950, file 19, box 136, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR; Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of Interior, to Mr. Walter, Columbia Basin Commission, 17 Oct. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; USBR, Project History 1950, 51; "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," FY1950: 2, file 3, box 3, RG 079-89-001, NARA-PSR.

¹¹⁰ Hubert H. Walter, Administrative Assistant, Columbia Basin Commission, to Oscar Chapman, Secretary of Interior, 10 Sept. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; "Resolution of the Columbia Basin Commission," 6 Nov. 1951, file Proposed Regulations CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO; Lawrence C. Merriam, NPS Regional Director, to NPS Director, 3 March 1952, file History of NPS, CODA, drawer 5, LARO.HQ.RMO.

¹¹¹ John A. Biggs, Director of Washington Department of Game, to H. A. Parker, USBR Supervising Engineer, 28 Feb. 1952, file 1 of 3 Recreation, box 34, Columbia Basin Commission, WSA; John R. Vanderzicht, Director of Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, to Parker, 22 April 1952, file 1 of 3 Recreation, box 34, Columbia Basin Commission, WSA; Hubert H. Walter, Administrative Assistant, to W. A. Galbraith, Director of Washington Department of Conservation and Development, 23 April 1952, file 1 of 3 Recreation, box 34, Columbia Basin Commission, WSA.

¹¹² Conrad L. Wirth, NPS Director, to Hubert H. Walter, Administrative Assistant, Columbia Basin Commission, 4 Dec. 1952, file 1 of 3 Recreation, box 34, Columbia Basin Commission, WSA; Claude E. Greider, LARO Superintendent, to USBR District Manager, 24 Sept. 1951, file 18, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO; Greider to Eril C. Wert, 9 Oct. 1952, box 4, History — Coulee Dam NRA, LARO.HQ.LIB; Greider to NPS Regional Director, 13 June 1952: 3, file D18 Planning Program, closed 6/3/53, LARO.HQ.ADM; John A. Biggs, Director of Washington Department of Game, to Walt Horan, U.S. House of Representatives, 2 Dec. 1952, file 1 of 3 Recreation, box 34, Columbia Basin Commission, WSA; John A. Biggs, Director of Washington Department of Game, to Greider, 23 Dec. 1952, file 1 of 3 Recreation, box 34, Columbia Basin Commission, WSA.

¹¹³ Hubert H. Walter, Administrative Assistant, Columbia Basin Commission, to W. A. Galbreath [sic], Director of Washington Department of Conservation and Development, 5 Dec. 1952, file 36-A-1-b Roosevelt Lake Rec. Area, 1951, box 6, Dept. of Conservation, Director's Papers, WSA; Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior, to Galbraith, 19 Feb. 1953, file 1 of 3 Recreation, box 34, Columbia Basin Commission, WSA. Available documentation did not indicate how the final decision was reached concerning administration of the Equalizing Reservoir.

¹¹⁴ Lawrence C. Merriam, NPS Regional Director, to NPS Director, 27 Oct. 1958, file A44 Tri-Party Agrmt. — Sites in Coulee Dam, LARO.HQ.ADM.

¹¹⁵ Catherine May to Wey Simpson, News Director of KULE radio station, wire, 10 April 1959, file Interior — National Park Services, box 6, May Coll., WSU; "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," CY1959:1, file 2621 Annual Reports Field Areas 1-1-60 to 12-31-60, box 4, RG 79-95-05, NARA-PSR.

¹¹⁶ Don and Connie Everts, interview with Nancy F. Renk, 7 Dec. 1999, Tape 1-A, tape and index on file LARO.HQ.

¹¹⁷ Mrs. Homer (Sis) Robinson and Don Everts, interview with Nancy F. Renk, 6 Dec. 1999, Tape 1-A, tape and index on file LARO.HQ.

¹¹⁸ "Superintendent's Annual Report, CODA," FY1953, file A2621 Annual Reports Field Areas 5-1-53 to 12-1-53, box 3, RG 79-95-05, NARA-PSR; Lawrence C. Merriam, NPS Regional Director, to P. R. Nalder, USBR District Manager, 7 Aug. 1953, file 18, box 3 of 3, LARO #95, Cat. #3250, LARO.HQ.PAO.