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Planting Camp North End of Trout Lake

Date: 05 1911
Description: Trout Lake was the site of the first forest planting or nursery. This camp was at the north end of Trout Lake.
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Trout Lake Headquarters

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Description: Trout Lake Headquarters at completion.
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Equipment at Trout Lake Station

Date: 1929
Description: Dr. E.A. Birge's equipment at his Trout Lake Station laboratory.
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Group of Children on Trout Lake

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Description: Group of children wearing ice skates standing together on Trout Lake.
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Canoeing on Trout Lake

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Description: View from shoreline of three people canoeing on Trout Lake.
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Family Canoeing on Trout Lake

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Description: View across water towards a family of three canoeing on Trout Lake.
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Canoeing on Trout Lake

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Description: View from shoreline through trees towards a family canoeing on Trout Lake.
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Trout Lake

Date: 1939
Description: View across water towards the shoreline of Trout Lake. There is a thin, sandy beach, and trees all along the curved shoreline.
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Children Feeding a Fawn

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Description: Two young children feeding a fawn at Trout Lake.
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Planting Seedlings

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Description: Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake.
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Dr. Birge at Trout Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Caption reads: "Dr. Birge, probably at Trout Lake." He is sitting in a car. There is a boat covered by a tarp on a trailer behind the car. A lake is in the...
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First Forestry Building at Trout Lake Headquarters

Date: 1911
Description: 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 progres...
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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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Lodge at Trout Lake

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Description: View towards side of lodge, with Trout Lake in the background.
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Ice Push

Date: 1925
Description: View along shoreline of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "Showing evidence of 'ice push,' or the piling up of lake shore sand as a result of the expansion of the...
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Ice Push

Date: 1925
Description: View along shoreline of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "Showing evidence of 'ice push,' or the piling up of lake shore sand as a result of the expansion of the...
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Dr. Birge on Trout Lake

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Description: Dr. Edward Ashael Birge paddling on a raft in Trout Lake. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remaine...
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Woman in front of Lodge at Trout Lake

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Description: Woman standing on the sidewalk in front of the lodge at Trout Lake. The building is constructed of logs, with rustic railings, and stone slab steps with ro...
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Bacteriology Laboratory

Date: 1935
Description: View looking down slope towards the Bacteriology Laboratory on the shore of Trout Lake. Trees are around the small, wood sided building, and the lake is in...
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CLH and Ranger Mac

Date: 1911
Description: Cornelius L. Harrington and Ranger McNeel planting tree seedlings at the Trout Lake nursery.

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