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Caption reads:

imageID: 28529
Description: Caption reads: "Sylamore Experimental Forest. Although assistance is given to individual landowners by the research stations, a research center can devote but little of its time to such work. Left to right, Silviculturist Ralph A. Read of the Central Ozarks Branch is telling Harold K. Sherman (author and lecturer) [ILLEGIBLE TEXT] and Development Commission), and U.S. Congressman Wilbur E. Mills how white oak growth on the Sylamore Forest was quadrupled by timber stand improvement."
Keywords: personnel
field tour
politician
experimental forest
Organisms: white oak
Photographer: Clement Mesavage
Original collection id: 462966
Media: black/white print
Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Location: Sylamore Experimental Forest; Arkansas
Date(mm/dd/yyyy): 1950
Citation: Use of this image is governed by Creative Commons CC BY. If you use the image, please include the following citation:

Bragg, Don C. 2020. A century of Forest Service research and development in the southern United States: Historical documents and images. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0047


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