Ladd photo of hand-piled slash on freshly cut-over area

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1927

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Photographic reports compiled by Harold Weaver illustrate forest management on Indian Reservation forests of Washington and Oregon, mainly on Colville where Weaver was Forest supervisor before becoming Regional Forester in 1960. Ther are a few photos of California and Montana and reports of scientific field trips.

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298695. view this record at catalog.archives.gov

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Forest Guard Mathew Dick using propane gas backfiring torch to set backfire near fire line. For fire suppression purposes, as well as for slash buning, the forestry staff of Colville Reservation consideres this torch the most effective.
Appearance of a pine forest after it had been selectively logged in 1941. Younger, thrifty trees as here depicted were reserved for accelrated grwth. Logging slash, including limbs up to four inched in diameter, had been neatly piled by hand, preparatory to disposal by burning during favorable fall weather.
Ladd photo showing "jammer" of Biles Coleman Lumber Co. loading 16-foot logs on a flat car.