Peeling a large ponderosa pine for beetle control. Photo by: J.M. Miller Date: June 1921 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-2594 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...
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Investigating pandora moth (Coloradia pandora) defoliation of a yellow pine stand north of Kirk, Oregon. Klamath Indian Reservation. Photo by: J.M. Miller Date: September 1921 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-2450 To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history...
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Drawing shows the pandora moth (Coloradia pandora Blake) life history and work. Artist: Unknown Photographer: Unknown Date: 1934 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-6869 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...
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Seasonal history of Coloradia pandora (Pandora moth) on yellow pine (ponderosa pine). Artist: William D. Edmonston Photo by: J.M. Miller Date: c.1924 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-6734 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...
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Screened cage used in artificially attracting Dendroctonus brevicomis to healthy ponderosa pine tree. Jenny Creek, Oregon. Photo by: John E. Patterson Date: August 1922 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-2337 To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of...
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Peeling bark for burning to control western pine beetle. Antelope Control Project - a part of the Southern Oregon Northern California cooperative control project. Photo by: J.E. Patterson Date: June 1921 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-2304 To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002....
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Close up view of brush burning - on Yellow Pine Timber Sale - Eccles Timber Sale. Whitman National Forest, Grant County, Oregon. Photo by: R.H. Weidman Date: 1920 Credit: National Archives and Records Administration RG# 95-GP. Records of the Forest Service. General Subject Files. USDA Forest Service Negative Number: 151395 NARA Image: 95-GP-1592-Box0346_009_001_AC Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection:...
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USDA Bureau of Entomology Forest Insect Station Number 6. W.B. Turner (left) special agent in charge of cooperation with private owners; and H.E. Burke, Agent and Expert in charge of the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project. Baker, Oregon. Photo by: Unknown Date: 1911 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon. This photo and the following excerpt are from:...
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Screened cage used in artificially attracting Dendroctonus brevicomis to healthy ponderosa pine tree. Jenny Creek, Oregon. Photo by: John E. Patterson Date: August 1922 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-2336 To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of...
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Spotting crew. A spotting crew at work in an infested area. These crews compass, passing back and forth through each section on lines covering a 10 chain strip each time. The spotters examined and marked all infested trees. These were platted on section plats by compassman. Care was taken that the location of the infested trees was on the 40-acre tract on which the trees grew. Spotter on the right has just finished numbering a tree and has called the number to the compassman who is locating it...
Topics: Early Beetle Control Efforts - 1910-1961, r6, usda, stateandprivateforestry, westernpinebeetle,...
Burning a large yellow pine tree infested with western pine beetle to kill the beetle broods. The trees are felled and bark is removed from trunks. Limbs and other debris are placed along the removed bark and the entire mass is fired. View shows two infested trees felled together. Both were burned at the same time. Antelope Control Project, California. Photo by: J.E. Patterson Date: June 1921 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health...
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Group of yellow pine killed by western pine beetle. Southern Oregon Northern California cooperative western pine beetle control project. Klamath Indian Reservation. Photo by: F.P. Keen Date: c.1923 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-3202 and FPK-82 To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002....
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Burning a large yellow pine tree infested with western pine beetle to kill the broods of the beetle. During the spring period of control, asll infested trees were de-barked and the broods were burned. Southern Oregon Northern California (SONC) control project. Photo by: J.E. Patterson Date: June 1922 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-2309 To learn...
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Bark beetle control camp. Tents are Army squad tents used for sleeping quarters for men engaged in control work. Each will house six men. Truck at left was used to transport camps and field equipment from one camp to another. Number 2. Southern Oregon Northern California Cooperative Control Project. Photo by: J.E. Patterson Date: June 1922 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La...
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1922. A spotter at work marking and listing a beetle infested tree. All insect-killed trees were examined by spotters; those trees containing live broods of bark beetles were numbered and marked to be treated by the treating crews which followed this worker. A record of the brood in each tree was made by the spotter on a special printed card and tacked to the tree. The card is shown tacked to the tree in the strip. The spotter is shown taking a "Spotter's Record" sheet which was filed...
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Compassman at work in the field. Western pine beetle control. Forest Service staff compasses were used. Compass lines were run through the sections at intervals of 10 chains. A spotter accompanied the compassman on each side. Infested trees were marked and spots were located on 4-inch scale section plots by compassman. Physical features, broods, trails, and springs were also spotted by compassman. Number 3. Southern Oregon Northern California beetle control project. Photo by: J.E. Patterson...
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