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Bucks in the Velvet

Date: 1935
Description: Two eight point bucks are standing in dappled shade at the edge of a wooded area.
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Cutover Forest Area

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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...
Map or Atlas

Topographic Base Map : Township No. 40 N, Range No. 9 E, Vilas County

Date: 1952
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Dept. map shows sections, roads, rivers, and lakes in the Town of Cloverland, Vilas County, Wisconsin as of February, 1952. It ...
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Fall Scene in Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: Sunshine brightens autumn oak and maple leaves along a narrow road identified as Razorback Trail. There are also birch and evergreen trees in the woods.
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Planting Seedlings

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Description: Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake.
Map or Atlas

Topographic Base Map : Township No. 43 N., Range No. 6 E., Vilas County

Date: 1952
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Dept. map shows sections, roads, rivers, and lakes in the Town of Presque Isle, Vilas County, Wisconsin as of March 1953. It do...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Northern State Forest in Vilas County, Wisconsin

Date: 1933
Description: This 1933 Wisconsin Conservation Dept. map shows roads, railroads, trails, lakes and streams, and the Trout Lake Game Refuge in Northern State Forest (whic...
Photograph

Children Feeding a Fawn

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Description: Two young children feeding a fawn at Trout Lake.
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Evergreen Trees

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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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Planting Pike

Date: 1935
Description: Two unidentified men, working from a boat or raft, are dumping the contents of milk cans into the waters of a lake. There are small cottages on the shore i...
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Boulder Lake in Boulder Junction

Date: 1940
Description: View of trees along a fence in front of Boulder Lake.
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Forest Rangers Using Phone

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Description: Forest rangers using an emergency phone on the back of a truck.
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Planting Trees

Date: 1935
Description: A large crew of men are bending to their work of planting seedling trees into furrows. Each man is carrying a spade-like tool with a long handle, and a box...
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Northern Highland State Forest

Date: 1935
Description: A single lane unpaved road is winding through a wooded area of pine, birch, and other trees.
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Norway Pine Forest

Date: 1942
Description: A man, likely a conservation warden, stands looking upward with his left hand resting on the trunk of a tree near the Star lake Ranger Station. The trees ...
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Telephone Linemen

Date: 1935
Description: A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ...
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Snowshoeing-Trout Lake

Date: 1948
Description: Slightly elevated view of two men snowshoeing along a flowing stream near Trout Lake.
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Toboggan Run

Date: 1937
Description: A young man is steering a toboggan with three others on board down a long course. Spectators line the run on the right.
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First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 10 15 1955
Description: Neil LeMany, Chief Forest Ranger at the Forest Protection Headquarters in Tomahawk, C.L. Harrington, superintendent of the Forest and Parks Division of the...
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Eagle Scout Forestry Camp 25th Anniversary Marker

Date: 1954
Description: Ten men are standing in a row in front of a sign marking the 25th anniversary of the Eagle Scout Forestry Camp. They are each holding an Eagle Scout trophy...

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