Oral History and Folklore Fieldwork
The Mountain West Center conducts oral history interviewing and folklore fieldwork year round. In partnership with Utah State University 's Special Collections & Archives, we generate audio documents on a variety of topics, often using students as interviewers. We also provide training in oral history methods for interested groups and have a limited number of recorders and transcribing machines available for short-term loan to USU students and faculty.

Our current oral history projects include the Logan Canyon Land Use Policy Oral History Project, in cooperation with Special Collections and Archives and the Department of Environment and Society at USU; and the Foreign Aid Oral History Project.

The Logan Canyon project consists of interviews with land managers, recreationists, land owners, and other users of the land in and around Logan Canyon , Utah , with the objective of creating a record of land use policymaking and use over the last fifty years.

The Foreign Aid project focuses on professors and others who have served overseas with organizations like the US Agency for International Development and the World Bank, particularly those who have come from land grant colleges in the West to arid lands in the Middle East and South America . The objective is to capture the memories of these workers who were instrumental in exporting American agricultural and industrial methods to other countries.

For more information on these projects, contact the Mountain West Center.

	The Snake River Singers (Shoshone) of Idaho were interviewed as part of the fieldwork for the Mountain West Songfest. The group later performed at the Songfest in June 2006.
Bill Peterson was one of the people interviewed for the Logan Canyon Project.