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Gene Ervine

Gene Ervine grew up in Mt. Vernon, Washington and moved to Alaska in the 1970s. He has worked as a logger, an architectural history researcher, a carpenter, an exhibit planner, and a bureaucrat. He worked for the National Park Service in Alaska on the Russian Bishop's House Restoration Project in Sitka from 1976 to 1982, and as Resource Interpretive Specialist for the Interdisciplinary Resource Group at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Anchorage. He also writes poetry, helped found Sitka’s public radio station, and was involved with efforts to preserve millions of acres of wilderness in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.

Gene Ervine appears in the following new Jukebox projects:

Sitka National Historical Park

Interview Title	Abstract	Archive #: Oral History	Project	Date of Interview
Gene Ervine	Gene Ervine was interviewed on April 15, 1999 by Karen Brewster at the Bureau of Land Management offices in Anchorage, Alaska. In this interview, Gene discusses his involvement with the Russian Bishop's House Restoration Project from 1976 to 1982 at Sitka National Historical Park in Sitka, Alaska. In a small conference room without windows, surrounded by piles of old BLM reports and file cabinets, Gene explains details of the original Russian Bishop's House building and how they dismantled it, the research that was done to recreate the house as historically accurate as possible, and the rebuilding process itself. He mentions a number of interesting discoveries the architects and historians made during the project. Gene expresses great enthusiasm for having been involved in such an interesting and historically significant project.	98-39-10	Sitka National Historical Park	Apr 15, 1999