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| Date: | 04 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Planting trout in Waupaca County. Left to right on bank: S.A. LaVoilette, Joe Samz, Lloyd Pinkawski, Edwin Kargewski, W.M. Geiger, G. Moder, Billy LaVoilet... |
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| Description: | Grass meadow with rotting tree stumps, possibly after a fire. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with four men walking on snowshoes through a forest. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mouth of Chapel Gorge Beach showing a canoe at the shore. |
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| Description: | Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging. |
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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: | Three men are sitting at the base of a large tree at Flambeau State Forest. |
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| Description: | Several men fighting a small forest fire. One man has a water pack on his back. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of trees on a snowy hill along University Drive. There is a building at the top of the hill obscured by trees. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Sauk City. |
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| Description: | Man in a Smokey The Bear costume poses behind a school desk with a boy and a girl. |
| Date: | 06 05 1989 |
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| Description: | People costumed as Smokey The Bear and Woodsy Owl play outdoors with children as a forest service worker looks on. |
| 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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