In 2004, Bob Banfield with ABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News visited Camp Emerson to film a segment. At the time, the bark beetle infestation was killing millions of trees in California forests. The camp, through donations from several volunteers, purchased a saw mill that was used to cut lumber from the dead trees.
Many of the temporary cabins South of Strawberry Creek in the main part of camp are made with lumber from these projects. In particular, volunteers Gary Hatton, Frank Sydow, and Leon Correz, made regular trips to the camp for the lumber to be cut and the construction of these cabins. They worked with then-Ranger Jeff Loefke on these projects.
Scott Hatton was able to capture the 2004 segment in the news and it is included below:
Lead-In Segment
Full News Segment
History Pages
- 1994 – Present History
- An Incomplete History (1994)
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Camp Development Fund Drive Of The 1960’s
- Camp Emerson History Illustrations
- Camp Emerson Scout Executives
- Contents
- How Scouting Began
- Pre-History
- Preface
- The 1920’s
- The 1930s
- The 1940’s
- The 1950’s
- The Beginning
- The Carl Helmick Years
- The John H. Leecing Years
- The Legend of Tahquitz