One of the many roads to employment with the Bureau of Public Roads was to hire on as a summer temp. Scott Rustay took this route following his freshman year at Boise State. Here is the first part of his recollections of five summers spent with the Idaho Division of the Bureau of Public Roads as a temporary civil engineering technician.
Moving the Federal Projects Division into Vancouver required a series of upgrades to the buildings and office space, and the Vancouver Newsletter chro...
Approximately 30 years after Western Federal Lands Highway Division became involved in road improvement projects on the Prince of Wales Island, the ro...
There were several avenues to getting hired at the Bureau of Public Roads during the 1950's and 1960's. These included hiring on as a summer temporary...
Road building sometimes requires extra care and special design considerations to avoid sensitive properties and treacherous terrain. Larry Adams wrote...
Hands-on training and the opportunity to contribute to the success of the project through new skills provided a firm foundation for a future career fo...
Spending five summers as a temporary with the Bureau of Public Roads, Idaho Division, Scott Rustay had some choice experiences. He writes that “the ...
As partners with the Forest Service, Western Federal Lands Highway Division is often involved in building or improving roads through the rough back co...
During the late 1960's, writes Glen Bedell, Federal agencies were beginning to discover the environment. He sent in this story about something that ha...
Nearly 500 feet above the Moyie River in northern Idaho, this bridge was constructed during the 1962-64 construction seasons and required much intesti...
As the National Environmental Protection Act was implemented, federal agencies had to make changes in how they managed their programs. At Federal High...
The National Environmental Protection Act was passed into law in 1969 and government agencies, including the Bureau of Public Roads, began to put more...
As Bureau of Public Roads employees moved up the ranks, they were often supported by others in higher places. Retirees recalled the times they offered...
Every job requires the coordinated efforts of many people, and the negotiation of changes if intended outcomes are misinterpreted. Whether it is a sma...
The Bureau of Public Roads' instituted the Highway Engineer Training Program which was an important training and recruiting tool that has continued to...
In retrospect, some retirees felt that getting hired at the Bureau of Public Roads had been relatively easy. Getting ahead, however, sometimes took a ...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Federal Lands Highway
2009-05-01 | Retiree Memoirs
Abstract:
First there were the room-filling IBM mainframe computers, then the Texas Instruments calculators and the Wang word processors. By the 1970's we had m...
After reading some of the other stories in this series, Paul Anderson sent an email recalling his experiences at the Clearwater Camp while working on ...
Meetings with partner agencies are crucial in deciding which projects deserve Federal Lands monies. However, sometimes not all participants can agree ...
Some projects can generate unexpected publicity. Two retirees presented their perspectives on an Oregon project that became the center of controversy ...
Moving the Federal Projects Division into Vancouver required a series of upgrades to the buildings and office space, and the Vancouver Newsletter chro...
Approximately 30 years after Western Federal Lands Highway Division became involved in road improvement projects on the Prince of Wales Island, the ro...
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