USDA Forest Service: c.1903. Harry Eugene Burke was the first university-trained entomologist hired by A.D. Hopkins in 1902. Burke received his degree from Washington State University.
USDA Forest Service: c.1906. Bureau of Entomology, Forest Insect Investigations, Washington Office staff.
USDA Forest Service: c.1907. Forest entomologist John M. Miller while he was a student at Stanford University, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1909. Forest entomologist J.M. Miller on horseback. Sierra National Forest, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1910. Bessie Brose Miller on horseback during her honeymoon. She accompanied her husband, John M. Miller, who was checking bark beetle infestations in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1912. Stagecoach at the site of the 1892 holdup by the Ruggles Brothers. Forest entomologist John M. Miller was riding from Weaverville to Redding, California, when he evidently convinced the driver to stop so he could photograph the scene.
USDA Forest Service: 1912 Insect control methods cartoon.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Insect Control Camp. Bark beetles have worked the lodgepole pine and yellow pine in the background. Badger Creek Watershed, Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Sawyers with a cross-cut saw in a lodgepole pine stand infested with mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) marked for cutting. Small yellow pine in left foreground infested with Dendroctonus monticolae. Badger Creek Watershed, Ochoco Nation
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Treating lodgepole logs for bark beetles. These are the infested logs before slashings are thrown on. Limbs from logs should be piled in order to be burned successfully. Badger Creek Watershed, Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Bark beetle infested trees converted to logs and piled with slashings on top and ready for burning. Standing timber in foreground not infested. The treating crew is on the right. Badger Creek Watershed, Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Burning piles of bark beetle infested logs and slash. Badger Creek Watershed, Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Burning piles of bark beetle infested logs and slash. Badger Creek Watershed, Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Entomological ranger W.E. Glendinning at Doggett Creek Camp, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Entomological ranger W.E. Glendinning at Craggy Mountain bark beetle control camp. Klamath National Forest, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Forest entomologist H.E. Burke's family summer camp at Philips, east of Placerville, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. Forest entomologist H.E. Burke or J.J. Sullivan with team of horses and wagon. Placerville, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1913. A field trip out of the Placerville Station. J.J. Sullivan (left) and P.D. Sergent on a trip up the American River Canyon near Kyburz, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1914. Entomological rangers P.D. Sergent (left) and J.D. Riggs with pack horses, packing supplies in to one of A.D. Hopkins’ phenology stations. Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon.
USDA Forest Service: 1916. "Ghost Forest" - lodgepole pine killed by mountain pine beetle following the 1890s lodgepole needleminer outbreak near Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1917. Conference of Bureau of Entomology and U.S. Forest Service men at Ashland, Oregon. Front row (left to right): J.E. Patterson, T. Snyder, and R. Hopping. Back row (left to right): Albert Wagner, J. Miller, and A.J. Jaenicke.
USDA Forest Service: c.1917. John E. Patterson, a professionally trained photographer, was hired by the Bureau of Entomology, Forest Insect Investigations in Ashland, Oregon as an entomological ranger in 1914.
USDA Forest Service: 1918. Treating sugar pine for mountain pine beetle. Yosemite National Park, California.
USDA Forest Service: 1920. J.E. Patterson on the front porch. Ashland Field Station. US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, Forest Insect Investigations. 111 3rd Street, Ashland, Oregon.
USDA Forest Service: c.1920. Jake Garrison, Mono Chief, with a handful of live “peaggies,” pandora moth larvae.
USDA Forest Service: 1922. Falling ponderosa pine attacked by western pine beetle. Southern Oregon Northern California (SONC) bark beetle control project.
USDA Forest Service: 1922. Felling a western pine beetle infested ponderosa pine tree for treatment. Southern Oregon Northern California (SONC) western pine beetle control project.
USDA Forest Service: c.1922. Felling a bark beetle infested pine for control treatment.
USDA Forest Service: c.1922. Felling a bark beetle infested pine for control treatment.
USDA Forest Service: c.1922. Falling a ponderosa pine attacked by bark beetles. Bark beetle control project.