![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."](/rds/imagedb/images/_thm/28529.jpg "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.\"")
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest personnel field tour politician |
| Organisms: | white oak |
| Location: | Sylamore Experimental Forest; Arkansas |
| 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." |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest big tree personnel |
| Organisms: | white oak |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Fine example of high grade forked leaf white oak (Quercus alba) cut for sawlogs. First log scaled 817 feet (12 ft.) Doyle Scale and entire tree contained 2750 feet." Boy is one of Russ Reynolds' sons. |
| Date: | 11/4/1940 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest big tree personnel |
| Organisms: | white oak |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Fine example of high grade forked leaf white oak (Quercus alba) cut for sawlogs. First log scaled 817 feet (12 ft.) Doyle Scale and entire tree contained 2750 feet." Boy is one of Russ Reynolds' sons. |
| Date: | 11/4/1940 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: |
experimental forest big tree |
| Organisms: | white oak |
| Location: | Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "A fine specimen of forked-leaf white oak (Quercus alba) 44-inches at d.b.h. and containing approximately 2,000 board feet of high grade lumber." Unknown man in picture for scale. |
| Date: | 11/10/1936 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: | cooperage |
| Organisms: | white oak |
| Location: | Rock Creek, Mena District, Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Plate 1. White oak heading bolts 25 inches long and cut from trees about 18 to 24 inches d.b.h. All sound wood for tight cooperage. Rock Creek, Mena District, Ouachita National Forest." Plate #1 in W.G. Wahlenberg, "Report on a trip for the tentative location of an experimental forest within the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas." Unpublished USFS report dated April 25, 1931, on file with SRS. |
| Date: | 1931 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: | hardwood |
| Organisms: | white oak |
| Location: | Rock Creek, Mena District, Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Typical white oak with defective broken top. Rock Creek, Mena District, Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas." Plate #2 in W.G. Wahlenberg, "Report on a trip for the tentative location of an experimental forest within the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas." Unpublished USFS report dated April 25, 1931, on file with SRS. |
| Date: | 1931 |
| Collection: | Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images |
| Keywords: | cooperage |
| Organisms: | white oak |
| Location: | Rock Creek, Mena District, Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas |
| Description: | Caption reads: "Low utilization of white oak for cooperage. Note rot in the stump cut. The whole tree yield but one sound bolt. Rock Creek, Mena District, Ouachita National Forest." Plate #3 in W.G. Wahlenberg, "Report on a trip for the tentative location of an experimental forest within the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas." Unpublished USFS report dated April 25, 1931, on file with SRS. |
| Date: | 1931 |