File:1911. Dr. A.D. Hopkins (center) with control crew examining mountain pine beetle infested ponderosa pine. Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project. Miner Creek area, Whitman National Forest, near Sumpter, Oregon. (37317664901).jpg

Dr. A.D. Hopkins (center) with control crew examining mountain pine beetle infested ponderosa pine. Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project. Miner Creek area, Whitman National Forest, near Sumpter, Oregon.

Photo by: Unknown Date: April 16, 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>

Dr. A.D. Hopkins [Chief, Washington D.C.] spent March 25-30 at Baker looking over the project area and talking over plans for the work. Agent Turner arrived in Baker April 1 and started at once to work up cooperation among the owners and to assist the Baker Forest Protective Association.

Control work started April 5, 1911, with the establishment of Forest Service Camp 1 on Deer Creek near Sumpter. Camp 2 was started April 6 on Anthony Creek near North Powder. These two camps were used as training camps for training foremen and cruisers for the other camps. Edmonston had charge of the control work in the field for the Bureau of Entomology, and Assistant Ranger Ephraim Barnes for the Forest Service.

Additional camps were started from time to time until nine camps in all were working. As soon as one area was worked, the camp was moved to another. In all 28 camps were worked.

While the control work was in progress, my time was largely spent demonstrating and explaining the work to the various visiting owners and officials. Owners from as far away as Warren, Pennsylvania, visited the project. Among these were E.D. Wetmore, President of the Wallowa Timber Company of Warren, Pennsylvania, W.B. Sellers of the Shevlin Lumber Company, Secretary G.S. Chapman of the Oregon Forest Fire Association, State Forester Elliot of Oregon, District Forester Cecil of District 6, Dr. A.D. Hopkins from April 11-16, and many small owners, newspaper men, etc."

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>