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| 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. |
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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... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a single worker trimming neat rows of seedlings at a Wisconsin State Nursery. |
| 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: | 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: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, squatting, and holding a freshly planted tree. He is surrounded by a Burlington County, New Jersey work crew employed in conservation work ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View towards tower, with a man standing on the platform on the top. This postcard has a handwritten notation on the back: "One of the first forest protecti... |
| Date: | 11 01 1929 |
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| Description: | View of two men on the ladder of the tower. Annotation on the back reads: "Baker tower, semi-closed, used later." |
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| Description: | Men are working up in the tower during construction. One man is standing mid-height on a ladder that runs the length of the tower on the right side. There ... |
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| Description: | A group of men are posing on the side of the hill. They are holding pails and other tools. A lake is in the background. |
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