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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Loading an airplane with calcium arsenate in order to spray for the hemlock looper pest in Peninsula State Park. This is believed to be the first such use ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Sauk City. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two forest rangers are posing on horseback. Handwritten on front: "Forest Rangers at Trout Lake Station." |
| Date: | 05 26 1963 |
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| Description: | The edge of a mixed cedar forest with aspen tree. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a fire fighting crew posing with buckets and shovels. They are battling the Big Falls Forest Fire. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Mixed group, mostly children, having a picnic in the woods, perhaps connected with the dedication of the East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | The maple and hickory forests in the old northwest were often plagued with fires during the summer months. Hölzlhuber, on a return journey from Niagara Fal... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The fertillity of the soil in America and Canada, especially in Wisconsin, was the attraction for most European immigrants. The vast amount of land and the... |
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| Description: | Forest area that once furnished employment for settlers, but through lack of reforestation was considered almost worthless at the time this image was creat... |
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| Description: | Well jetting equipment with three hose lines extinguishing forest fires. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a wide path through trees in the spring or summer. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | River with distant hills behind a town. An island is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from the east bluff of lake with a motorboat. A geologic pinnacle juts out from the lower left of the image. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Woman standing on footbridge in a forested area in Durwards Glen. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bow in the river, and a homestead on the shore, with a two-story house and a barn. Two wagons are close to the barn in the lower left co... |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of a dirt road through the woods with added white highlights. A horse-drawn wagon with two passengers moves down the road in the distance, ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of buildings in an industrial area with a forest in the background. |
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| Description: | A field of tree stumps beginning to be overgrown with vegetation. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of American Baptist Assembly Grounds from Judson Tower. Below near the tree-covered shoreline are buildings, a recreation area, and a harbor ... |
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