Conference of Bureau of Entomology and U.S. Forest Service men at Ashland, Oregon. Front row (left to right): F.P. Keen, T. Snyder, and R. Hopping. Back row (left to right): Albert Wagner, J. Miller, and A.J. Jaenicke.

Hopping represented Region 5 and Jaenicke Region 6 of the Forest Service. Snyder was on a special trip from the Washington Office of the Bureau of Entomology. Albert Wagner, entomological ranger, had just been transferred from the Missoula station of the Bureau which had been closed when Josef Brunner left for West Virginia.

From 1915 to 1919 the Ashland Station carried on a series of studies of bark beetle infestations in the Rogue River and Klamath River watersheds which led tosome new proposals regarding control methods. These recommendations were considered in a series of conferences with the Forest Service which resulted in the initiation of several experimental control projects.

Excerpted from H.E. Burke's book, "My Recollections of the First Years in Forest Entomology".

Photo by: Unknown Date: June 1917

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Bureau of Entomology Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: BUR-9391

To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.

For related historical information see: <a href="https://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476" rel="nofollow">www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/21476</a> Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.

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>