Title: Wisconsin. Plant Industry Division: White Pine Blister Rust Records
Inclusive Dates: 1916-1979

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Plant Industry Division

Call Number: Series 2025

Quantity: 28.2 c.f. (61 archives boxes and 8 flat boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Annual reports, logbooks, maps, field reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous records documenting the joint federal-state effort to control and eradicate white pine blister rust in Wisconsin.

Language: English

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These records offer a fairly complete and graphic history of the effort to control and eradicate white pine blister rust in Wisconsin. The disease was first discovered in Wisconsin in 1915 and by the 1930s the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and several federal agencies were engaged in a vigorous, systematic effort to survey the state's pine stands and to destroy the sources and carriers of the disease.

Boxes 1-2 contain the correspondence files of the state entomologist regarding white pine blister rust. The correspondence is generally between state and federal authorities and provides an interesting study of federal-state cooperation and also of the relatively primitive methods used in the early years of the battle against blister rust. These files are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and thereunder chronologically. Also included in Box 2 are semi-monthly crew reports for 1920 and 1921.

Box 3, “Control Studies,” consists of published and unpublished studies, reports, brochures, etc. on blister rust control in Wisconsin and elsewhere, 1922-1954, many from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Box 4 contains miscellaneous reports and correspondence, 1930-1945, and a folder of newspaper clippings, 1931-1958.

Boxes 5-21 contain annual reports on Wisconsin's blister rust control program in general (1916-1979) and also annual reports on specific areas of the state, including study plots, Indian reservations, and national forests. The reports for 1967-1971 also include reports on barberry eradication efforts. Photocopies of the pertinent segments of the Department of Agriculture's printed annual reports, 1916-1934, are also included. Several of the reports were generated by the federal government, and those identified as “North Central,” “Great Lakes,” “Northeastern,” and “National Forests” cover other states in addition to Wisconsin.

The logbooks in boxes 22-24 are arranged by administrative region—South, Northwest, and Northeast—and thereunder alphabetically by county and thereunder by town and range. They show survey dates, agency doing the surveying, acreage covered, plantings, ribes pulled, days worked, remarks, etc., for the 1930s-1970s. These logbooks contain the raw data from which the maps in boxes 25-29 were created. The maps are organized the same way as the logbooks (region, county, town and range) and are color coded to show control areas, protected and unprotected pine stands, and locations of pine and ribes known to be infected with blister rust.

The “Detail Records” in boxes 30-65 consist of field reports, maps (scale: four inches equals one mile), correspondence, and aerial photos from which were created the logbooks and maps described above. These records are filed alphabetically by county and thereunder by town and range. They are followed by similar records in boxes 66-69 for the national forests and Indian reservations in Wisconsin. These are arranged alphabetically by forest or reservation, thereunder by ranger district, thereunder by county, and thereunder by town and range.

Wisconsin. Plant Industry Division. General Correspondence and Subject File, 1924-1982 (Series 756).

	Correspondence
Box   1 Item   1-2	Detwiler, S. B., 1918-1920
Box   1 Item   3-4	Martin, J. F., 1918-1923
Box   1 Item   5-9	Ninman, H. J., 1918-1921
Box   1 Item   10	Pierce, Roy G., 1916-1917
Box   2 Item   1-3	Pierce, Roy G., 1918-1920
Box   2 Item   4	Taylor, T. C., 1916-1919
Box   2 Item   5	Thompson, William C., 1917-1921
Box   2 Item   6	Wallace, Dr. James, 1916-1917
Box   2 Item   7	Washburn, F. L., 1916-1917
Box   2 Item   8-9	Semi-monthly Crew Reports, 1920-1921
	Control Studies 1, Economic Factors
Box   3 Item   1-2	General
Box   3 Item   3	Regeneration
Box   3 Item   4	Research
Box   3 Item   5	Abstracts of Articles
Box   3 Item   6	Articles and Papers
Box   3 Item   7	Control Studies 2, Pine Infection and Damage
Box   4 Item   1	White Pine Blister Rust Control Plan, 1930
Box   4 Item   2	Blister Rust Control Reports, Western District, 1935
Box   4 Item   3	White Pine Infection Survey, Northwestern District, 1939
Box   4 Item   4	Newspaper Clippings, 1931-1958
Box   4 Item   5	Miscellaneous U. S. Forest Service Records, 1934-1945
Box   4 Item   6	Menominee Indian Reservation, Miscellaneous Records, 1930-1936
Box   4 Item   7	U. S. D. A. Lake State B. R. Control Evaluation Calculation Aid
	Annual Reports, General
Box   5 Item   1	Photocopies of printed reports, 1916-1934
Box   5 Item   2-5	1916-1919
Box   6	1920-1929
Box   7	1931-1941
Box   8	1942-1963
Box   9	1964-1979
	Pine Infection Study Plots
Box   10 Item   1-3	Garfield, 1936, 1938, 1940
Box   10 Item   4-5	Hess, Charles, 1936, 1941
Box   10 Item   6	Luck, 1938
Box   10 Item   7-9	New Hope, 1936, 1938, 1940
Box   10 Item   10-13	Pittsfield, 1937-1942
Box   11 Item   1	Survey, Portage County, 1939
Box   11 Item   2-3	Rhinelander, 1936, 1938
Box   11 Item   4	Rural Pine Plantation, 1941
Box   11 Item   5	Twenty Temporary Plots, 1941
Box   11 Item   6	Investigative Work, North Central Region, 1942
	Ribes Regeneration Study Plots
Box   12 Item   1	Bad River Indian Reservation, Ashland County #1, 1935
Box   12 Item   2	Bayfield County, 1935
Box   12 Item   3	Bayfield County #6, 1938
Box   12 Item   4	Chippewa County, 1941
Box   12 Item   5	Chippewa County #1, 1941
Box   12 Item   6	Forest County #8, 1938
Box   12 Item   7	Iron County, 1935
Box   12 Item   8	Lincoln County #1, 1939
Box   12 Item   9	Polk County #1, 1937
Box   12 Item   10	Portage County #2, 1937
Box   12 Item   11	Wood County #1, 1936
Box   13 Item   1-4	Studies in Effectiveness of Control Measures, North Central Region, 1936-1938, 1940
	Annual Reports
	North Central Region, General
Box   14	1932, 1940-1948
Box   15 Item   1-16	1949-1964
Box   15 Item   17	Northeastern Area, 1966
Box   16	Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation, 1933-1934, 1937-1938, 1946-1949
Box   17 Item   1-10	Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation, 1934, 1938-1939, 1943-1949
Box   17 Item   11-25	Bad River Indian Reservation, 1935, 1937-1941, 1943-1951
Box   18	Menominee Indian Reservation, 1933-1960
Box   19 Item   1-7	Indian Reservations, North Central Region, 1942-1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1972
Box   19 Item   8-22	Indian Reservations, Great Lakes Area Field Office, 1952-1966
Box   20	Nicolet National Forest, 1933-1941, 1943-1957, 1960
Box   21 Item   1-25	Chequamegon National Forest, 1934-1941, 1944-1960
Box   21 Item   26-31	Chequamegon and Nicolet National Forests, 1961-1964, 1966-1967
Box   21 Item   32-36	National Forests, North Central Region, 1942-1944, 1946-1947
	Logbooks
Box   22	South Region
Box   23	Northwest Region
Box   24	Northeast Region
	Maps
Box   25	National Forests
	Northeast Region
Box   26	Brown County - Oneida County
Box   27	Outagamie County - Winnebago County
Box   28	Northwest Region, Bad River and Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservations
Box   29	South Region
	Detail Records
Box   30	Adams County
Box   31	Ashland County
Box   32	Ashland County - Bayfield County
Box   33	Bayfield County
Box   34	Brown County - Burnett County
Box   35	Burnett County - Clark County
Box   36	Clark County - Columbia County
Box   37	Crawford County - Douglas County
Box   38	Douglas County - Dunn County
Box   39	Dunn County - Eau Claire County
Box   40	Eau Claire County - Forest County
Box   41	Grant County - Iron County
Box   42	Iron County - Jackson County
Box   43	Jackson County
Box   44	Jefferson County - Langlade County
Box   45	Langlade County - Manitowoc County
Box   46	Manitowoc County - Marinette County
Box   47	Marinette County - Marquette County
Box   48	Menominee Indian Reservation - Monroe County
Box   49	Monroe County
Box   50	Oconto County - Oneida County
Box   51	Oneida County
Box   52	Outagamie County - Polk County
Box   53	Polk County - Portage County
Box   54	Price County - Rusk County
Box   55	Rusk County - Sauk County
Box   56	Sauk County - Sawyer County
Box   57	Sawyer County
Box   58	Sawyer County
Box   59	Shawano County - Sheboygan County
Box   60	Sheybogan County - Vilas County
Box   61	Vilas County
Box   62	Vilas County -Washburn County
Box   63	Washburn County - Waupaca County
Box   64	Waupaca County - Waushara County
Box   65	Waushara County - Wood County
Box   66	Chequamegon National Forest
Box   67	Nicolet National Forest
Box   68	Bad River Indian Reservation
Box   69	Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation