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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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| Description: | Cutover Norway Pine lands showing character of restocking and scattered trees. |
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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." |
| 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. |
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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... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake. |
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| Description: | Group of men and boys planting white pine seedlings. |
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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... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | A building, surrounded in deep snow, used by Wisconsin forest rangers of district 8, perhaps in northern Wisconsin. The building includes two sets of close... |
| 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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| Description: | Four men are lounging on the porch of a small house in the middle of a cleared forest plot. Two of the men are holding dogs. To the right of the house is t... |
| Date: | 10 28 1936 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the state foresters at a meeting of the National Association of State Foresters in Wisconsin, October 28-30th. |
| Date: | 11 01 1929 |
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| Description: | View of two men on the ladder of the tower. Annotation on the back reads: "Baker tower, semi-closed, used later." |
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