File:1945. Loaded plane - hemlock looper control project. Clatsop County, Oregon. (32142411113).jpg

Airplane taking off with load of spray. Hemlock looper control project. Clatsop County, Oregon.

Photo by: Robert L. Furniss Date: June 24, 1945

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: PS-680

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 more information about this project see: <a href="https://archive.org/details/su1945ddt00unit" rel="nofollow">archive.org/details/su1945ddt00unit</a> Craighead, F.C. and R.C. Brown. 1945. Summary of 1945 DDT investigations for control of forest insects with special reference to aerial applications. USDA Agricultural Research Administration, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Division of Forest Insect Investigations. 15 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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