Wildfire Suppression in 1916
Mobile field crew on the Roosevelt National Forest. A Resource Restored A window into the early years of fire fighting is now available online due to the persistent efforts of Southern Research Station...
View ArticleHistoric Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
A new book published by the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) richly illustrates the legacy of Camp Claiborne, a military site established on the Kisatchie National Forest (Kisatchie)...
View ArticleU.S. Forest Service’s First Woman Research Forester
Margaret Stoughton Abell. Photo courtesy of USDA Forest Service. Margaret Stoughton Abell Margaret Stoughton graduated from Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, in 1930 with a bachelor’s degree in forestry....
View ArticleHistoric Camp Claiborne
Remembering the Sacrifice, a hardback book published by the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS), richly illustrates the legacy of Camp Claiborne, a military site established on the...
View ArticleForestry’s Early Entrepreneurs
Leslie Pomeroy, near a loblolly seedling and two large stumps. Photo courtesy of Michael Pomeroy. Before the Crossett Experimental Forest existed, two engineers-turned-lumbermen began rehabilitating...
View ArticleReforesting a Stumpscape
Steam-powered logging equipment – like the Clyde skidder – was gigantic. Photo from Lousiana State University Archives. By 1930, the golden age of lumbering was over. “In about 25 years, millions of...
View ArticleRemembering Glen Smalley
Dr. Glendon W. Smalley, 1928-2020. USFS photo. On August 2, 2020, Glendon W. Smalley died at his home in Sewanee, Tennessee. He was 92. Smalley was an Emeritus scientist with the Southern Research...
View Article100 Years of Forest Service Research in the South
High grade sweetgum and tupelo gums by the Apalachicola River in Florida. Photo by Clement Mesavage, Southern Forest Experiment Station. In 2021, the Southern Research Station and all of USDA Forest...
View ArticleA History of Naval Stores, a Forgotten Forest Industry
Gum resin was used to produce refined chemicals called naval stores. USDA Forest Service photo. Before the advent of modern boats, wooden ships made up the navies of our world. Naval stores – pitch,...
View ArticleHistory of Forest Research in the South, 1921-1933
For 25 years, this photograph was the logo of the Yazoo-Little Tallahatchie Flood Prevention Project, a USDA tree-planting effort in Mississippi. For 40 years, Philip Wakeley researched southern pines...
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