Stearman spray planes tied down after a day's spraying. Western spruce budworm control project. Big Summit airstrip, Ochoco control unit, Oregon.

Photo by: R.B. Pope Date: July 1955

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: PS-1427

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.

Note: "Forced Landing Made by Plane A spray plane, one of the fleet being used in the spruce budworm work on the Ochoco National Forest, made a forced landing on Highway 26 about 15 miles east of Prineville early this week, it was learned today. Neither plane nor pilot suffered injury, and the plane, a Steerman. was towed to a nearby ranch for repairs. The pilot, Dusty Mobeik(SP?) told fellow pilots that mechanism in the oil lines leading to the engine had broken while he was spraying over his section of the forest. He attempted to reach the Prineville airport but finally was forced to land on the highway. The spruce budworm work being done in that area of the forest will be concluded this week, in all probability. Nineteen Steerman planes and one B-247 have taken part in the area in the vicinity ot Big Summit prairie, and during the program seven planes have been damaged though no pilot injuries have been reported. Work started in June. Dick Baxter is the private contractor who has been in charge of the work there, and Jim Ralph is the forester supervisor for the U.S national forest service. The area under contract by Baxter involved 260,000 acres." From: The Bend Bulletin. July 20, 1955. Page 5. <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/97369584/" rel="nofollow">www.newspapers.com/newspage/97369584/</a>

For further information about historical western spruce budworm activity and control projects see: Dolph, Robert E. 1980. Budworm activity in Oregon and Washington, 1947-1979. R6-FIDM-033-1980. Portland, OR: US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Insect and Disease Management. 54 p.

For related historical program information see: <a href="https://archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetectionSurveysInORandWA19472016TheSurveyHighRes" rel="nofollow">archive.org/details/AerialForestInsectAndDiseaseDetection...</a> Johnson, J. 2016. Aerial forest insect and disease detection surveys in Oregon and Washington 1947-2016: The survey. Gen. Tech. Rep. R6-FHP-GTR-0302. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. 280 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>

Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth" rel="nofollow">www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth</a>

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