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The Big Lakes Box Company was organized by Merle West, Burge Mason, and A. J. Voye in 1917. It was one of the largest retail lumber businesses in the area. Squaw Valley Logging company leased equipment from Big Lakes Box Company because of the heavy demand for lumber from World War II. Collection contains treatise written by Donald C. Mesner in September 2012; amended and revised in November 2014.

The Collier Memorial State Park/Logging Museum is located in southern Oregon. It was established in 1945 by brothers Andrew and Alfred D. Collier as a memorial to their parents. Collection contains miscellaneous materials collected by Alfred "Cap" Collier, including letters to and from the State Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee.

The collection consists of research material on Oregon, northern California, and northwestern Nevada logging and freight railroads, logging companies and mills in the area, correspondence, drafted maps, images, DVDs and maps. Jack Bowden (John Curtis Bowden) translated a life-long love of railroads into a career with the Southern Pacific Railroad, two books and a research collection created over 60 years.

Alfred Douglas “Cap” Collier was a noted twentieth century lumberman and philanthropist in Klamath County, Oregon. He served on several local government committees and boards, with a special interest in roads and transportation. Collection contains items belonging to or related to Collier, such as a calendar of 1978, a copy of the Will left by Ethel Collier, and property tax documents.

The Collier Memorial State Park/Logging Museum is located in southern Oregon. It was established in 1945 by brothers Andrew and Alfred (Cap) Collier as a memorial to their parents. Collection contains a box with folders with miscellaneous materials related to the A. Cap Collier State Park: memos, correspondence, meeting notices, photographs, brochures.

The collection includes Collier’s extensive logging photograph collection; photographs, documents and letters documenting his World War I military service and family history materials. Alfred D. “Cap” Collier was a noted twentieth century lumberman and philanthropist in Klamath County, Oregon.

The Collier Memorial State Park/Logging Museum is located in southern Oregon. The Park contains one of the largest collections of logging equipment in the world. Collection contains an illustrated brochure on the proposed creation of the Collier State Park, published by the Friends of Collier Park.

The Collier Memorial State Park/Logging Museum is located in southern Oregon. It was established in 1945 by the brothers Andrew and Alfred D. Collier as a memorial to their parents. Collection contains brochure from July 31, 1997, prepared for Friends of Collier Memorial Park and Oregon State Parks Department.

Throughout his professional life Robert Ballard “Bob” Kennedy was actively involved in the logging industry. Robert Kennedy married Theresa Florence “Terry” Sears in 1942 while they were both attending college. She was involved with 4-H and the YMCA. Collection contains a DVD with the March 2006 interview of Robert and Terry Kennedy.

The Klamath Forest Protective Association is a non-profit representing all private forest landowners in the Klamath-Lake District of Oregon. The collection consists of the organization’s records assembled in 2008 to mark its centennial anniversary.