The Applegate was a heated battleground in the late 1990s as environmentalists, loggers and the Forest Service all tried to exert their influence. It took people like Chris Bratt, a card carrying carpenter's union member to help folks talk through the issues, find new ways of solving problems and find consensus. Chris Bratt was a big part of the Applegate Partnership.
Stories of mills, mines, forests, and fields: Southern Oregon’s landscape, economy, and demographics have changed significantly since the donation land claims of the mid-1800s. Thanks to grants from the Oregon Heritage Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Southern Oregon University has been collecting the oral histories and photographs of heritage families and publishing these to the Southern Oregon Digital Archives.
