Golden anniversary of the Forest Service

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A99.9

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UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
LIBRARY

BOOK NUMBER A99.9

Photo Sheet
"A" series

GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY of the FOREST SERVICE

(Captions on page 4)

EDITORS AND WRITERS: You may obtain 8x10 prints of any of the pictures

shown here on request to the Forest Service, U . S. Dept, of Agriculture,
Washington 25, D. C.

EARLY-DAY ACTIVITIES (Continued)

A- 13 Forest Assistant W, H. B. Kent. Huachuca (now Coronado) National For-
est, Arizona. 1905. (F-422214)

A- 14 Clyde Leavitt, forest assistant (right), and Bill Donovan, packer. Hua-
chuca (now Coronado) National Forest, Arizona. 1905. (F-422212)

A- 15 Rangers Neil Poyner (right) and Oscar Mink at the Indian Springs Ranger
Station. Payette National Forest, Idaho. 1923. (F- 183320)

A-l6 Forest ranger watching herd of elk to determine whether they were being
molested by predatory animals or poachers. Shoshone National Forest,
Wyoming, 1912. (F-10734A)

A- 17 Forest Service ranger station, Aquachiquita Canyon, Lincoln National
Forest, New Mexico. 1908. (F-53108)

A- 18 Interior of office tent, temporary field headquarters. Stanislaus National
Forest, California. 1906. (F-50036)

A- 19 Forest officers with their pack train fording Vallecito Creek on the South

Trunk trail. In the largely underdeveloped national forests, which included
remote back-country areas, travel was by foot or horseback. San Juan
National Forest, Colorado. 1911. (F-98286)

A-20 Camp at mouth of Monument Creek on Belknap Meadows, where creek
joins Pole Creek. Left to right: W, J. Hauley, Supervisor Hall, Asst.

District Forester J. W. Nelson, Ranger Belknap, Ranger Cantlin.

Bridger National Forest, Wyoming. 1914. (F-20470A)

A-21 Winter survey crew stops for lunch at Meadow Creek. Rangers Mendenhall,
Thol, and Hutchinson. Flathead National Forest, Montana. 1927.
(F-223665)

A-22 Winter travel of forest officers. White River National Forest, Colorado.
1911. (F-98220)

A-23 Return of a fire fighter after two days and three nights of fire fighting.
Ranger J. J. Westfall. Sierra National Forest, California. 1908.

(F-73797)

A-24 Candidate taking the horse -packing test, part of the forest ranger exami-
nation. Fair Grounds, Leadville, Colorado. 1907. (F-71225)

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Photo Sheet
"A" series

EARLY-DAY

(Note:

ACTIVITIES (Continued)

For Present-Day Activities,

see "B" series . )

A-21

EARLY-DAY ACTIVITIES

The early-day forest rangers were men born to saddle and trail, rugged cowboys,
trappers, and woodsmen, who could shoe horses, throw a diamond hitch, shoot,
and ride with the best in the west. They were outdoorsmen who knew intimately
the language of American forests. As pioneer protectors of your forest resources,
they built up a loyalty and devotion to public service that have endured through the
years. Their big job was to keep your then newly created national forests free from
fire, game poachers, and timber and range trespassers.

A-1 Ranger Griffin and Forest Guard Cameron on fire patrol duty making an obser-
vation for forest fire from the top of Mount Silcox, a lookout station. Cabinet
National Forest, Montana. 1909. (F-59298)

A-2 When night overtakes the forest ranger far from his headquarters, all forest
officers must be able to take care of themselves in the woods. Wasatch
National Forest, Utah. 1914. (F-21043A)

A-3 Uncle Jim Owen, early-day forest officer and cougar hunter on the Kaibab
National Forest, Arizona. 1920. (F-150348)

A-4 Typical early-day forest ranger in the Southwest. Jim Sizer, who served as
ranger and assistant supervisor from 1909 to 1943. Apache National Forest,
Arizona. 1910. (F-460531) i

A-5 Saddling horse preparatory to field trip. Uncompahgre National Forest,
Colorado. 1915. (F-26233A)

A-6 Forest officer packing up for a field trip. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.
1910. (F-182895)

A-7 All in a day's work--Ranger McFarland and Guard Allen shoeing the utility
packmule, "Dynamite." Willamette National Forest, Oregon. 1921.
(F-161037)

A-8 Forest ranger with his pack animal. Uinta National Forest, Utah. 1908.
(F-79048)

A-9 Ranger at one of his favorite pastimes, rope -spinning. San Isabel National '
Forest, Colorado. 1912. (F-12849A)

A-10 Forest ranger and crew in field camp on the Santa Fe National Forest, New '
Mexico. 1907. (F-66355)

A-11 Forest officers camping in old roofless cabin to conceal camp from game
law violator s . Bridger National Forest, Wyoming. 1919. (F-45677A)

A-12 Idlewild Ranger Station. Ranger L. E. Cooper and two forest guards off for

the day's work--two to survey the area of a recent fire, one to scale logs j

cut on a timber sale. Arapaho National Forest, Colorado. 1908. (F-77155)

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Photo Sheet

B" series

PRESENT-DAY ACTIVITIES (For Early-Day Activities, see "A" series.

(Captions on page 4)

EDITORS AND WRITERS: You may obtain 8x10 prints of any of the pictures

shown here on request to the Forest Service, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture,
Washington 25, D. C.

PRESENT-DAY ACTIVITIES (Continued)

B-I3 Forest Service timber sale officer Ray Johnson (center, facing camera)
discussing problems of the sale with timber operators Glenn Oviatt and
Cecil Wetsel (backs to camera) and John Buck, their forester. Tractor
and arch skidding logs in background. Wetsel-Oviatt timber sale, Eldo-
rado National Forest, California. 1954. (F-475163)

B-14 Ranger S. L. Cuskelly makes an official stripnotch blaze on a tree along
a trail. Dixie National Forest, Utah. 1953. (F-47614Z)

B-15 Woods boss, L. Coleman (left), and timber sale officer, B. Lulburrow,
looking over a pulpwood cutting operation. Osceola National Forest,

Florida. 1953. (F-451427)

B-l6 Forest Service timber sale officer Bruce Wirth using a spray gun to mark
a ponderosa pine for cutting on a timber sale. Eldorado National Forest,
California. 1953. (F-475,145)

B-17 Forest Ranger Vaughn Hofeldt (right) showing interested visitors work of
bark beetles in a section of bark from the dying ponderosa pine behind
them. Thousands of tiny beetles, and their larvae, working in the cambium
layer between the bark and sapwood, girdle and kill the trees. Each year
insects and disease kill more trees than forest fires. Eldorado National
Forest, California. 1953. (F-475197)

B-18 Ranger William P. Duncan, Pisgah Ranger District, leaves the ranger
station for business in town. Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina.
(F-465153)

B-19 Forest officer Don Cabe using calipers to measure the diameter of a

yellow-poplar tree. Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina. (F-469813)

B-20 Forest officer taking off in a helicopter to explore the boundaries of a

40-acre experimental area in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.
1952. (F-474663)

B-21 Forest officer Gustafson leaving a plane after an inspection flight over the
Plumas National Forest, California. 1945. (F-435745)

B-22 Forest ranger and his assistant in office going over work plans on the Lake
Valley Ranger District. Eldorado National Forest, California. 1953.
(F-475224)

B-23 Forest officers surveying and estimating timber preliminary to making a
timber sale. Eldorado National Forest, California. 1953. (F-475136)

B-24 Forest Service officer Alex Goedhard scaling logs at the landing. Wetsel-
Oviatt sale, Eldorado National Forest, California. 1953. (F-475164)

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Photo Sheet
"B" series

PRESENT-DAY ACTIVITIES (Continued)

(Note: For Early-Day Activities, see

'A" series . )

B-20

PRESENT-DAY ACTIVITIES

Your modern-day forest rangers, technically trained through college study and
practical, down-to-earth experience, are specialists in managing timber, range,
water, recreation, and wildlife resources. Like the early-day forest rangers,
they are men who don't mind roughing it. They willingly accept the challenge of
the strenuous work and the responsibility of keeping forests in their charge pro-
ducing on the highest possible level. They are guardians, administrators, and
developers of your national forests.

B-1 Ranger S. L. Cuskelly, East Fork Ranger District of the Dixie National
Forest, Utah. 1953. (F-476138)

B-2 Ranger Bernard Eger examining a tree sample, obtained by using an incre-
ment borer, to determine the rate of growth of a tree on his district.

George Washington National Forest, Virginia. (F-382709)

B-3 Don Cabe uses a diameter tape to measure a yellow-poplar tree on the
Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina. 1952. (F-469810)

B-4 Ranger S. L. Cuskelly hauls down "Old Glory" at sunset at the East Fork
Ranger Station, Dixie National Forest, Utah. 1953. (F-476149)

B-5 Ranger S. L. Cuskelly and family on the ranger station steps, Panguitch,
Utah. Dixie National Forest. 1954. (F-476148)

B-6 Timber sale officer (Bruce Wirth) going over the timber sale area with a

company forester (Milt Morris, Placerville Lbr. Co.). The Forest Service
does not do any logging itself. The timber is sold to the highest bidder,
who logs the area under a contract. Logging is supervised by the forest
ranger or his timber sale assistant. Eldorado National Forest, California.
1953. (F-475143)

B-7 Harold Turner, timber sale officer, using a paint gun to mark a large

Jeffrey pine for cutting on a timber sale. Plumas National Forest, Calif.
1945. (F-437876)

B-8 Herb Flodberg, ranger on the Libby Ranger District of the Kootenai National
Forest, Montana, and John McRell, woods boss for the J. Neils Company,
discussing the timber sale area map. 1952. (F-470587)

B-9 Ranger Grant G. Williams checking an enclosure used for a gras s -growing
experiment on a forest range. Panguitch Lake District of the Dixie National
Forest, Utah. 1953. (F-474934)

B-10 Ranger Vaughn Hofeldt ready to unsaddle his horse after an inspection ride
up the Big Meadows trail. Pickup and trailer are used to haul the horse as
far as possible, to make maximum use of the ranger's time when riding or
pack trips into the roadless back-country are necessary. Eldorado National
Forest, California. 1953. (F-476216)

B-11 Ranger S. L. Cuskelly packs a mule for a trip into the back-country of the
Dixie National Forest, Utah. 1953. (F-476139)

Ranger S. L. Cuskelly takes to the trail for an inspection of the forest range
on the East Fork Ranger District. Dixie National Forest, Utah. (F-476141)

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B-12