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 ArticleCivilian Conservation Corps’ Rocky Road in Louisiana
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers dig a channel to drain agricultural fields. Photo courtesy of USDA Forest Service. A recent Southern Research Station (SRS) publication, The Work of the...
View ArticleTo Plant a Billion Pine Seeds: Reforestation in the South
Tracts of land that were larger than 500 acres were reseeded by plane. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. In the early 20th century, steam-powered logging equipment came to the longleaf pine forests of the...
View ArticleThe Delta Experimental Forest
Sweetgum leaves. The dynamics of oak-sweetgum stands are studied on the Delta. Photo by Robert Webb, courtesy of bugwood.org. Located in Washington County, Mississippi, the 2,600-acre Delta...
View ArticleThe Olustee Experimental Forest
Slash pine with “cat face” for harvesting naval stores. Photo by David Moorhead, courtesy of Bugwood.org. The 3,135-acre Olustee Experimental Forest (Olustee), located in northeast Florida was...
View ArticleWebinar on December 9th: Sustainable Forestry and African American Land...
African American rural land ownership has declined significantly over the past 100 years, threatening critical family and community assets. The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, in...
View ArticleSerendipity Has Guided Research Forester Henry McNab’s 50-Plus-Year Career
Research forester Henry McNab. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. Please take a moment to meet the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station’s most valuable resources through the Faces of Innovation...
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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