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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

White Pine Blister Rust Threat

Date: 06 1938
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...
Photograph

Senator Nelson and Colleagues

Date: 1968
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...
Photograph

Political Conversation

Date: 1968
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...
Photograph

Planting White Pine Seedlings

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

Urhenholdt Memorial Forest

Date: 
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 as of January

Date: 1937
Description: This map shows the Wisconsin Conservation Department forest protection divisions and the locations of state forests, national forests, Indian reservations,...
Map or Atlas

Fish and Game Activity Map as of November 1937 : [Wisconsin]

Date: 1937
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows the locations of game refuges, fish hatcheries, canning factories, fish camps, and fish refuges in the sta...
Map or Atlas

Forest and Park Activity Map as of December 15, 1937 : [Wisconsin]

Date: 1937
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Department map shows the locations of state forests, national forests, county forests, state nurseries, Indian reservations, st...
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...
Map or Atlas

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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