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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.
Photograph

Oneida Purchase Unit

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Description: Cutover Norway Pine lands showing character of restocking and scattered trees.
Photograph

Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust.
Photograph

Loading Big Log

Date: 1936
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...
Photograph

Selective Logging

Date: 03 1938
Description: A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices.
Photograph

Blister Rust Eradication Crew

Date: 1935
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...
Photograph

Crystal Lake CCC Camp

Date: 1935
Description: Barracks buildings at the Crystal Lake Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp.
Photograph

CCC Youth Crew

Date: 1938
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...
Photograph

Planting White Pine Seedlings

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Description: Group of men and boys planting white pine seedlings.
Photograph

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...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin State Conservation Commission Map

Date: 08 1922
Description: This Wisconsin State Conservation Commission map shows the distribution of standing timber per township. The northern tier of counties is covered, as are V...
Map or Atlas

Public forest areas in Wisconsin

Date: 04 1932
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows federal, state, and county forest areas, the relative proportion of land owned by each agency, and state p...
Map or Atlas

Forestry & Parks Map

Date: 05 1935
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows the locations of state forests, state nurseries, state parks, roadside parks, prison camps, and lookout to...
Map or Atlas

Drott's Conservation Guide

Date: 1935
Description: "Drott's conservation guide" map shows the locations of Indian reservations, parks, fish hatcheries, forests, lookout towers, Wisconsin Conservations Commi...
Map or Atlas

Emergency Conservation Camps as of January

Date: 1936
Description: This 1936 Wisconsin Conservation Dept. map shows the locations of state forestry Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps, closed state forestry CCC camps, ...
Map or Atlas

Forest Protection Activity Map

Date: 05 01 1938
Description: This map shows the locations of Wisconsin Conservation Department forest protection districts and cooperative areas, state forests, national forests, India...
Photograph

Ranger Headquarters District No. 8

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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...
Postcard

Forest Rangers at Hang Out at Tomahawk Lake

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of twelve men posing on the steps and porch of a building, probably forest rangers. The men are wearing a variety of clothing, including a b...
Postcard

Pokegama Camp, Spider Lake

Date: 12 01 1911
Description: An elevated view from hill of Pokegama Camp at Spider Lake. Caption reads: "Pokegama Camp, Spider Lake, Mercer, Wis."
Postcard

First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Historical Marker near Trout Lake. The marker recognizes the first ever forest patrol flight.

The marker text reads:

"FIRST FOREST PATROL FLI...

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