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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Tree planting crew working in Chequamegon National Forest in northern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Ribes eradication crew of Indian women on the Menominee Reservation pose together in a line. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | One of the Native American crews hired to assist with the White Pine Blister Rust eradication effort on the Menominee Reservation. Joe Larock was identifie... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Native Americans hired to assist with the White Pine Blister Rust eradication effort on the Menominee Reservation are being trucked to their work site. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Three men working near a tree. During 1933 Menominee Indians protected over 4000 acres of white pines from the blister rust threat. |
| Date: | 08 1935 |
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| Description: | William Cowan, the white pine blister rust control foreman on the Menominee Reservation, with his two assistants, Joseph Dodge and Leo Waukechom (right). |
| Date: | 10 1939 |
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| Description: | Eradication of the blister rust threat to Wisconsin's white pine forest created a joint federal-state effort that was almost military in its proportions. H... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Loading a large white pine log cut on the Menominee Indian Reservation onto a truck. The log was hauled to the Wisconsin State Fair for a display about the... |
| Date: | 03 1938 |
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| Description: | A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a ribes eradication crew that was part of the white pine blister rust effort in a Barron County forest. The caption indicates tha... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Barracks buildings at the Crystal Lake Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A crew of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth starting for the field where they were working on ribes eradication as part of the effort to defeat the w... |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | S.B. Fracker and H.N. Putman, two leaders of the white pine blister rust eradication effort in Wisconsin, are examining infected trees at the Rhinelander i... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson, William Hansen, and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point president Lee Dreyfus converse at the Water Quality Lab that is to be bui... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson, William Hansen, and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point president Lee Dreyfus discuss at the Water Quality Lab that is to be buil... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Governor Nelson seated and speaking into microphones about his Outdoor Recreation Action Program (ORAP), the 1961 proposal for Wisconsin land purchase and ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, squatting, and holding a freshly planted tree. He is surrounded by a Burlington County, New Jersey work crew employed in conservation work ... |
| Date: | 11 28 1960 |
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| Description: | A group of Van Hise school 7th graders watch a working model of a paper-making factory as they tour the Papermobile. The Papermobile is a 35-foot trailer h... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | This photograph of downed trees and branches is annotated, possibly by C.L. Harrington: "A fire hazard at this date Feb 28 '41. I have salvaged all or ab... |
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