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Fire Break

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Description: One man, wearing a hard hat, is kneeling in the dirt in the foreground, while another man wearing a cap is resting one foot on a Minneapolis-Moline disk pl...
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Father and Daughter after a Forest Fire

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Description: A man (Mr. Carlsen) is standing next to his daughter (Lisa). He is bending over and pointing to a small green plant growing out of the scorched ground afte...
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Father Showing Daughter a Plant

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Description: A father (Mr. Carlsen) and his daughter (Lisa) are kneeling on the scorched ground next to a burned tree trunk. They are touching and looking at a small gr...
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Emergency Forest Fire Regulations

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Description: A man is nailing a sign posting the emergency forest fire regulations to a wood post. He is wearing a Department of Natural Resources uniform, including tw...
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Flood in Trout Strem

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Description: View from shoreline looking through fences towards a man standing in knee-deep water holding a net and scooping water into a bucket. Patches of land and tr...
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After a Windstorm

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Description: View looking uphill towards a man in a hardhat standing in the middle of fallen pine trees.
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Storm Damage Cleanup

Date: 03 1978
Description: View across snow-covered ground towards a man standing on a log. The trees around him are either broken or bent over towards the right, the result of a sto...
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Boom Shocking

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Description: Slightly elevated view of three men in a boat designed to shock fish with an electrical current. One man is driving the boat, while two other men are stand...
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Sturgeon

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Description: Two men are helping to hold down a sturgeon on the side of a boat as a third man tags the dorsal fin.
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Northern Pike Spawn Collection

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Description: Two men are collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other is sitting in a chair with a conta...
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Collecting Northern Pike Spawn

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Description: Close-up view of two men collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other man is sitting in a c...
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Aerial Seeding

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Description: A person is standing in the middle of a field covered with downed tree branches holding a red balloon to guide the airplane flying towards him. The plane i...
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Tree Measuring

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Description: Two men wearing jumpsuits and hard hats are measuring a tree. One man is holding up a measuring tape across the width of the tree as the other man writes o...
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DNR in the Field

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Description: Four men of the Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources are wearing hard hats and standing next to a truck as they look over papers. The Wisconsin DNR ...
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Forest Ranger and a Logger

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Description: Two men are standing in a forest wearing hard hats. The man on the left is bracing a foot on a cut logs, near a chainsaw resting on the pile of logs. The m...
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Log Chopping Contest at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is standing on top of a braced wood block. He is bending over as he swings his ax at the wood block on which he is standing. A crowd of people are wa...
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Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
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Inspecting Ice Fishing License

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Description: Three men are standing in or near the door to an ice fishing shack. One man is holding a fishing pole, and another man is standing in the open doorway of t...
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Snowmobiler Check

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Description: A warden of the Department of Natural Resources is checking the permit of a man sitting on a snowmobile.
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Pike Lake State Park

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Description: View looking down hill towards a Department of Natural Resources employee standing under a tree which is overlooking Pike Lake State Park. Pike Lake is in ...

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