Deterioration of beetle-killed Douglas-fir. Progress of decay in tree after two years. 180 year old tree. Millicoma Forest. Coos County, Oregon.
Photo by: Ken H. Wright and Paul Lauterbach
Date: August 1953
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-1266
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site:
wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection:
www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
