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Evergreen Trees

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Description: Elevated view of a variety of evergreen trees in a nursery, including White, Norway, Scotch and Jack pines, and White and Norway spruce near Trout Lake.
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Oneida Purchase Unit

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Description: Cutover Norway Pine lands showing character of restocking and scattered trees.
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Smokey Bear with Sign

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Description: Cut-out of Smokey Bear standing next to a sign that reads: "Mr. Sportsman..Thanks for helping prevent forest fires. Smokey."
Painting

Cover of Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape

Date: 1973
Description: Cover for the Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a river cascading over rocks, and some trees in the foreground. The Wisconsin ...
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Cover of Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape

Date: 1972
Description: Cover for the Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a red wing blackbird perching on cattail flowers in a body of water. The Wisco...
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Cover of Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape

Date: 1963
Description: Cover for the Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a bright green and pink Jack-in-the-pulpit. The Wisconsin Friends chapter was ...
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Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape, 1969

Date: 1969
Description: Cover for the 1969 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a tree with white blossoms, yellow flowers, and a pathway leading up to a...
Painting

Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape, 1948

Date: 1948
Description: Cover for the 1948 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a sketch of a tree, a fence, and a small town by a lake. The Wisconsin Fr...
Photograph

Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Ribes eradication crew of Indian women on the Menominee Reservation pose together in a line.
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust.
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Native American Blister Rust Crew

Date: 1933
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...
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Blister Rust Eradication Crew

Date: 1933
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.
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Native American Blister Rust Crew

Date: 1933
Description: Three men working near a tree. During 1933 Menominee Indians protected over 4000 acres of white pines from the blister rust threat.
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White Pine Blister Rust Eradication Crew

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Description: Six-man crew at Camp Mercer looking for ribes (gooseberries), a stage essential for the transmission of blister rust to white pines, working in a marsh are...
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Blister Rust Eradication Supervisor

Date: 10 1939
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...
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Planting Seedlings

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Description: Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake.
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Planting White Pine Seedlings

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Description: Group of men and boys planting white pine seedlings.
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Urhenholdt Memorial Forest

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Description: Marker at the Uhrenholdt Memorial Forest established by farmer Soren J. Uhrenholdt on land that was part of northern Wisconsin's "Cutover Region." A leader...
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Plats of Townships 20 and 21 North, Jackson County, Wisconsin

Date: 1935
Description: Two hand-colored maps of the area comprising the town of Millston (Plats of Townships 20 and 21 north, range 2 west), Jackson County, Wisconsin, showing 40...
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Gaylord Nelson Speaking about ORAP

Date: 1961
Description: Governor Nelson seated and speaking into microphones about his Outdoor Recreation Action Program (ORAP), the 1961 proposal for Wisconsin land purchase and ...

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