File:C.1912. Entomological Rangers J.D. Riggs (left) and J.J. Sullivan. (37061519580).jpg

Entomological Rangers J.D. Riggs (left) and J.J. Sullivan.

Photo by: Unknown Date: c.1912

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>

"J.D. Riggs was camp foreman for the Forest Service on the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project and with the Forest Insect Station 5 at Yreka, Placerville, and Ashland from July 1, 1911, until about August 1, 1916, when he resigned to go into mining.

J.J. Sullivan was a woodsman for the Baker Forest Protective Association in the 1910 fall control work for the Northeastern Oregon Bark Beetle Control Project, and a cruiser in the 1911 spring control work. He served as Agent and later as Entomological Ranger with Forest Insect Station at Yreka and Placerville from July 1, 1911, to September 1915, and then transferred to the Northern Rocky Mountain Station. Sullivan left the Bureau of Entomology in June 1916 to go into lumbering."

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>