Forest Restoration - The Beginning
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frankhj
N 46° 02.851 W 089° 39.255
16T E 294653 N 5102752
Forest Restoration Marker by the Trout Lake Forestry Headquarters, S. of Boulder Junction.
Waymark Code: WM1WMP
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2007
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This place on Trout Lake was selected by E. M. Griffith, Wisconsin's first State Forester, as the headquarters for the program in forest restoration of the State Board of Forestry.
Early in 1911, a civil service examination was given and the first forest rangers were appointed. Their primary duties were to initiate a tree planting program to protect forest lands from fire. Both of these activities have now spread over the entire state.
It was on this site that the first seed beds (pine of local origin) were sown. Although some preparatory work had been done in 1910, the ground was actually broken in 1911. The first planting stock was lifted in 1913.
Any measure of success which has been or will ever be attained in the restoration of the forest resources in this state had its tangible beginning here.
County: Vilas
Location: Other
MarkerID: 123
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