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| Description: | The Alexander Mitchell excursion boat with passengers. |
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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. |
| 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). |
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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: | Slightly elevated view of a single worker trimming neat rows of seedlings at a Wisconsin State Nursery. |
| 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... |
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