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First Structure Built at Trout Lake
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This building was used for cooking and eating. The clothesline on the left has clothes hanging on it. Neal Harrington has written on the postcard:"Trout Lake. First structure erected here. Also first in Wisconsin forestry program. Built in winter-spring of 1910-1911. Cooking and eating place. Men slept upstairs if they liked that better than tents."
1910
Harrington, C. L.
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Planting Camp North End of Trout Lake
May 1911
Trout Lake was the site of the first forest planting or nursery. This camp was at the north end of Trout Lake.
First Forestry Building at Trout Lake Headquarters
1911
The first forestry building at Trout Lake Headquarters. It served the crew for eating and sleeping while they were clearing for the nursery site in progress for first seeding in 1911. There is a lo...
East Shore Trout Lake
1912
View across water of the east shore of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "East Shore. Trout Lake, Vilas Co. Wis."
Main Building: Wisconsin State Forest Reserve, Trout Lake
1912
View of the main building at the Headquarters Camp State Board of Forestry at Trout Lake. This was the Headquarters of Field Instruction for Forest Ranger Students. Caption reads: "Main Bldg: Wisco...
Feeding Deer in the Deer Corral at Trout Lake
1912
Trout Lake Forest Headquarters, the deer corral, with four fawns. Three of the fawns are eating from a trough, the third from a pail held by a man (partially out of frame), who may be C.L. (Neal) H...
CLH and Ranger Mac
1911
Cornelius L. Harrington and Ranger McNeel planting tree seedlings at the Trout Lake nursery.
