L-R: Frank C. Craighead, George Hofer, and Phil D. Sergent on the summit of the Elkhorn Mountains during a recruise of the control area. Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project.

Photo by: Unknown Date: July 1911

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Source: H.E. Burke Collection digital files; Regional Office; Portland, Oregon.

This photo and the following excerpt are from: H.E. Burke. 1946. My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology. Berkeley, California. 37 p. <a href="https://www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest-entomology.pdf" rel="nofollow">www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/recollections-on-forest...</a>

"In June orders were received to recommend 10 men for appointment as agents to the Bureau [of Entomology]. A.G. Angell, C.C. Goodpasture, George Hofer, Hugo Kneiff, Ike Miller, J.D. Riggs, Phil Sergent, J.J. Sullivan, Lew Thomas, and Al Wagner were recommended and appointed. ... During July and August, Edmonston and his crew made a survey of the control area to determine the amount of new infestation that was developing. F.C. Craighead [who later became the Chief of the Division of Forest Insect Investigations], was a student assistant for the summer and spent some of his time with this survey. This was his first experience in the forests of the Pacific Coast."

For more information about this bark beetle control project see: Burke, H. E., and B. E. Wickman. 1990. Northeastern Oregon bark beetle control project 1910-11. PNW-GTR-249. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 55 p. <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/26285" rel="nofollow">www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/26285</a>

For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: <a href="http://wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources" rel="nofollow">wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources</a>