| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel research techniques |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Forestry Technician Bruce Walsh (right) and unknown helper measuring trees on the Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 1990s |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel field day award |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Project Leader Dr. James Baker accepting the sign to be a part of the Tree Farm System at the Crossett Experimental Forest. Far right: Dr. Stan Barras, Assistant Director of Research at the SRS. |
| Date: | 1985 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Dr. James Baker (unit project leader) addressing attendees of a Crossett Forestry Field Day, probably in the late 1980s. |
| Date: | 1980s? |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Dr. James Baker (unit project leader) addressing attendees of a Crossett Forestry Field Day, probably in the late 1980s. |
| Date: | 1980s? |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Attendees of Crossett Forestry Field Day. Forest Service Chief Dale Robertson can be seen standing in the middle of the crowd. |
| Date: | 1980s |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest tornado disturbance |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Large pines damaged by tornado that struck the Crossett Experimental Forest headquarters area in 1980. |
| Date: | 1980 |
![Rededication ceremony held on February 14, 1979, for the Crossett Experimental Forest. From left to right: J.E. Martin, University of Arkansas VP; [unknown man]; US Senator Dale Bumpers; Don Gammel (standing, behind flag); Robert Buckman, Deputy Chief for Research, USDA Forest Service (speaking); [unknown man]; Reverend Herman Reese, St. John's Lutheran Church in Crossett; Brooks Carter, Mayor of Crossett; B.G. Gresham, Arkansas State Forester; John Wishart, Georgia-Pacific; Russ Reynolds, USDA Forest Service (retired).](/rds/imagedb/images/_thm/28486.jpg "Rededication ceremony held on February 14, 1979, for the Crossett Experimental Forest. From left to right: J.E. Martin, University of Arkansas VP; [unknown man]; US Senator Dale Bumpers; Don Gammel (standing, behind flag); Robert Buckman, Deputy Chief for Research, USDA Forest Service (speaking); [unknown man]; Reverend Herman Reese, St. John's Lutheran Church in Crossett; Brooks Carter, Mayor of Crossett; B.G. Gresham, Arkansas State Forester; John Wishart, Georgia-Pacific; Russ Reynolds, USDA Forest Service (retired).")
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Rededication ceremony held on February 14, 1979, for the Crossett Experimental Forest. From left to right: J.E. Martin, University of Arkansas VP; [unknown man]; US Senator Dale Bumpers; Don Gammel (standing, behind flag); Robert Buckman, Deputy Chief for Research, USDA Forest Service (speaking); [unknown man]; Reverend Herman Reese, St. John's Lutheran Church in Crossett; Brooks Carter, Mayor of Crossett; B.G. Gresham, Arkansas State Forester; John Wishart, Georgia-Pacific; Russ Reynolds, USDA Forest Service (retired). |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russell Reynolds being presented an award by Larry E. Lassen at the February 14, 1979 reopening of the Crossett Experimental Forest. From left to right: Robert Buckman, Deputy Chief for Research, USDA Forest Service; US Senator Dale Bumpers; Lassen and Reynolds; Reverend Herman Reese, St. John's Lutheran Church in Crossett (behind flowers); John Wishart, Georgia-Pacific; and B.G. Gresham, Arkansas State Forester. |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Registering people to attend the February 14, 1979, ceremony for the reopening of the Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | People who attended the February 14, 1979, ceremony for the reopening of the Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | People at the February 14, 1979, reopening ceremony of the Crossett Experimental Forest. L to R; kneeling: Dr. Bob McLemore, Michael Chain; Dr. James B. Baker, Dr. Robert Farrar, Liz Fountain, Don Gammel, Margaret (Skeet) Cheeseman, Dan Yaussy, Michael D. Cain, Charles R. Croswell, Dr. Paul Murphy, Michael D. Sutton, Scott Caldwell, John Pickering, Wayne Riles. |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Some of the dignitaries at the rededication of the Crossett Experimental Forest. From left to right: Larry E. Lassen, Director, Southern Forest Experiment Station; US Senator Dale Bumpers; Robert E. Buckman, Deputy Chief for Research, USDA Forest Service; Russell R. Reynolds, USDA Forest Service (retired); and James B. Baker, new project leader, Southern Forest Experiment Station. |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | US Senator Dale Bumpers giving a speech at the rededication of the Crossett Experimental Forest. From left to right: Larry E. Lassen, Director, Southern Forest Experiment Station (obscured); J.E. Martin, University of Arkansas Vice President; Robert E. Buckman, Deputy Chief for Research, USDA Forest Service; Don Gammel, CEF forest manager (standing, behind US flag); Senator Bumpers; Reverend Herman Reese, St. John's Lutheran Church in Crossett; John Wishart, Georgia-Pacific (obscured); B.G. Gresham, Arkansas State Forester; and Russell R. Reynolds, USDA Forest Service (retired). |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest ceremony personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Dr. Larry E. Lassen, Director, Southern Forest Experiment Station, speaking at the Crossett Experimental Forest rededication on February 14, 1979. Also pictured (left to right): Robert E. Buckman, Deputy Chief For Research, USDA Forest Service; Senator Dale Bumpers; Lassen (speaking); Reverend Herman Reese, St. John's Lutheran Church in Crossett; B.G. Gresham, Arkansas State Forester; Brooks Carter, Mayor of Crossett (obscured by Reynolds); Russell R. Reynolds, USDA Forest Service (retired); and John Wishart, Georgia-Pacific. |
| Date: | 2/14/1979 |
| Collection: | Alaska forestry research historical images |
| Keywords: |
general experimental forests |
| Location: | Admiralty Island Alaska |
| Description: | Youngs Bay Alaska |
| Date: | 7/1973 |
| Collection: | Alaska forestry research historical images |
| Keywords: |
facilities experimental forests |
| Location: | Admiralty Island Alaska |
| Description: | Youngs Bay fisheries research |
| Date: | 7/1973 |
| Collection: | Alaska forestry research historical images |
| Keywords: |
people experimental forests |
| Location: | Admiralty Island Alaska |
| Description: | Youngs Bay; Two look like Meehan and Swanston |
| Date: | 7/1973 |
| Collection: | Alaska forestry research historical images |
| Keywords: |
forestry experimental forests |
| Location: | Fairbanks Alaska area |
| Description: | White spruce/90-ft. tower for seed prod. Studies. Bonanza Cr. |
| Date: | 3/1972 |
| Collection: | Alaska forestry research historical images |
| Keywords: |
forestry experimental forests |
| Location: | Fairbanks Alaska area |
| Description: | Clearcut to produce wildlife seedlings. Bonanza Cr. Exp. F. |
| Date: | 3/1972 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest natural area personnel big tree |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Large loblolly pine that once was found in the Reynolds Research Natural Area on the Crossett Experimental Forest. This specimen was about 46.6" DBH and 130 ft tall when this photograph was taken. |
| Date: | 8/1968 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest natural area personnel big tree |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Large loblolly pine that once was found in the Reynolds Research Natural Area on the Crossett Experimental Forest. This specimen was about 46.6" DBH and 130 ft tall when this photograph was taken. Man in photos may be Jasper Burns, long-time CEF employee. |
| Date: | 8/1968 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest natural area personnel big tree |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Two unknown men measuring a large loblolly pine that once was found in the Reynolds Research Natural Area on the Crossett Experimental Forest. This specimen was about 46.6" DBH and 130 ft tall when this photograph was taken. |
| Date: | 8/1968 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel building |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Staff member entering Crossett Experimental Forest headquarters. |
| Date: | 7/1968 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel laboratory |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Photographs of laboratory technician Howard Holler analyzing wood samples for magnesium and calcium. |
| Date: | 7/1968 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
map Southern Forest Experiment Station forest type experimental forest |
| Location: | southern US |
| Description: | 1968 color map of the forest types and areas served by the Southern Forest Experiment Station, including locations of research projects and experimental forests. Some of eastern Texas missing color. |
| Date: | 1968 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel equipment |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | J.T. Rhodes at the wheel of a tractor used to skid logs at the Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 11/1965 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Southern Forest Experiment Station clerical staff on visit to Crossett Experimental Forest in early May of 1963 or 1964. |
| Date: | May 1963 or 1964 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest tree improvement |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Air layering loblolly pine at the Crossett Experimental Forest. Man in photo may be Hoy Grigsby. |
| Date: | 3/1963 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest tree improvement |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | A research forester climbing a selected "superior" or "plus" loblolly pine tree by means of a Swedish ladder to install a device to spray the crown with an insecticide to protect the young cones. |
| Date: | 3/1963 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest tree improvement |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Another view of a research forester climbing a selected "superior" or "plus" loblolly pine tree by means of a Swedish ladder to install a device to spray the crown with an insecticide to protect the young cones. |
| Date: | 3/1963 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel laboratory |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Photograph of Charles X. Grano working a microtome with a number of wood slices. |
| Date: | 3/1963 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel laboratory |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Unidentified staff member running leaf nitrogen content determinations on a kjeldahl apparatus. |
| Date: | 3/1963 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry extension personnel field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Visitors to the 25th harvest on the Good Forty. Products shown are approximately equal to the growth produced by the tract during the 25th year of management. Since 1937, annual harvests have produced products with a roadside value of $15,724." |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "A part of Good 40 after 25 years of management and 25 annual harvests." Man pointing is Russell R. Reynolds. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry extension personnel field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russ Reynolds (on left) instructing landowners about the benefits of good forestry. Annual harvest on Poor Farm Forty, Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry extension personnel 4-H field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russ Reynolds and Ashley County, Ark. Agent Vaught discussing the 25th annual timber harvest on the Good Forty with a group of 4-H Club boys. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry extension personnel field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russ Reynolds instructing landowners about the benefits of good forestry. Annual harvest on Poor Farm Forty, Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Annual growth of the CEF's Good Forty, cut and displayed for the benefit of a forestry field day. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russell R. Reynolds. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russell R. Reynolds showing several men (Custer Ross, unidentified, Reynolds) a pine cut as a part of the 25th annual harvest of the Crossett EF's "Poor" Farm Forestry Forty. This loblolly pine was 24 inches in DBH and contained 578 board feet of lumber. Tree had been seriously suppressed when young, and had a fire scar at its base, but grew well for 50 years after release. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russell R. Reynolds next to an 18-inch d.b.h. loblolly pine with a volume of 156 board feet in sawtimber and 0.10 cords of pulpwood that has grown from seed on the Poor 40 (CEF) since that demonstration was established. |
| Date: | 11/1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest tree improvement |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "William E. Fulton air layering a loblolly pine tree at CEF headquarters." |
| Date: | 1962 |
![Caption reads: "Crossett Research Center project leader [Russell R.] Reynolds and a group of Ashley County, Ark., 4-H Club boys discussing the growth patterns and periodic value of this 22-inch d.b.h. 40-year-old loblolly pine on the Good Forty."](/rds/imagedb/images/_thm/28470.jpg "Caption reads: \"Crossett Research Center project leader [Russell R.] Reynolds and a group of Ashley County, Ark., 4-H Club boys discussing the growth patterns and periodic value of this 22-inch d.b.h. 40-year-old loblolly pine on the Good Forty.\"")
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry extension personnel 4-H field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Crossett Research Center project leader [Russell R.] Reynolds and a group of Ashley County, Ark., 4-H Club boys discussing the growth patterns and periodic value of this 22-inch d.b.h. 40-year-old loblolly pine on the Good Forty." |
| Date: | 1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest farm forestry extension personnel 4-H field day |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Ashley County (Ark.) Agent Vaught discussing the 25th annual timber harvest on the Good Forty with a group of 4-H Club boys." |
| Date: | 1962 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel field tour |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russell R. Reynolds leading a tour group from the World Forestry Congress. |
| Date: | 9/14/1960 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest soil water |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Equipment used to determine soil moisture. Note plexiglas board with tier of phonejacks and phone plug from an amperage meter. |
| Date: | 6/1960 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forests soils rainfall |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Rainfall exclusion study, on the CEF in the late 1950s or early 1960s. |
| Date: | 1960s? |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest tree improvement superior pine |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Even though the Crossett Experimental Forest is primarily known for its contributions to the study of naturally regenerated southern pine forests, it did play an important role in parts of the early tree improvement programs in the southeastern US. In this picture, Hoy C. Grigsby scales a ladder to the crown of one of the best pine trees found on the Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 1960s |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest tree improvement superior pine |
| Organisms: | loblolly pine |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | A plus tree on the Crossett Experimental Forest. |
| Date: | 1960s |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel award |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Russell R. Reynolds presenting a watch to Claude Williams upon Claude's retirement from the Crossett Experimental Forest, probably in the 1960s. |
| Date: | 1960s |