1950. Engelmann spruce bark beetle control project. Work call - men getting into trucks at Cottonwood Insect Control Camp. Arapaho National Forest, Colorado.

Engelmann spruce bark beetle control project. Work call - men getting into trucks at Cottonwood Insect Control Camp. Arapaho National Forest, Colorado.

 

Photo by: Leland J. Prater

Date: August 4, 1950

 

Image Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

Series: Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History, ca. 1897 - ca. 1980

Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2008

Local Identifier: 95-GP-5033-462693

Forest Service Image: 462693

 

For related information see:

digitalcommons.usu.edu/barkbeetles/193/

Massey, C.L. and N.D. Wygant. 1954. Biology and Control of Engelmann Spruce Beetle in Colorado. Circular Number 444. Washington DC: USDA Forest Service. 35 p.

 

For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources

 

Image provide by USDA Forest Service, R6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth/

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