CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT. FORESTRY DIVISION.

An Inventory of Its Central Subject Files: Operational (O) Files

Government Records

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Creator: Minnesota. Division of Forestry.
Title:Central subject files: Operational (O) files.
Dates:1911-1962.
Abstract:Subject files originating from, or received by, the state forester, commissioner, or director of forestry (title change) or other members of the forestry division office.
Quantity:28.25 cubic feet (28 boxes and 4 packages).
Location:See Detailed Description section for shelf locations.

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The subject files consist of correspondence, memos, reports, maps and plats, field books and diaries, circulars, brochures, and other miscellaneous materials. They relate to fire cooperation with district and township officials, other state departments, lumber companies, and railroads; fire protection plans and weather reports; Civilian Conservation Corps and Emergency Conservation Work leases and camps; Works Progress Administration surveys; Red Lake area fires and others by district; ranger ten-year plans; equipment literature and inventories; state forest reports; instructions to forestry personnel; and diaries of daily work performed at Itasca Park, originating from or received by the state forester, commissioner, or director of forestry (title change) or other members of the forestry division office.


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Expand/CollapseARRANGEMENT

Fire Cooperation, 1912-1961
Fire Protection, 1919-1962
Geography, 1914-1960
Personnel, 1935-1959
Civilian Conservation Corps, 1934-1942
Emergency Conservation Work, 1933-1942
Works Progress Administration, 1939-1949
Improvements, 1925-1961
Brush Disposal, 1918-1920
Department of Conservation, 1925-1930
Fires, 1914-1962
Supervision, 1913-1962
Orders, 1911-1923
Equipment and Supplies, 1911-1929
Reports, 1911-1939


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Expand/CollapseADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited series, folder, and item here]. Minnesota. Division of Forestry. Central Subject Files: Operational (O) Files. Minnesota Historical Society. State Archives.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples

Accession Information:

Accession number: None; 978-14

Processing Information:

Processed by: processing staff

RLIN ID No.: MNHV92-A265

Catalog ID No.: 09-00023209


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Expand/CollapseO - FIRE COOPERATION, 1912-1961:

Location
127.I.14.12FFire Cooperation by District Nos. 1-20:
Area 1, 1939-1948.
Area 1, 1951-1954.
District 2, 1922-1925.
District 2, 1925-1927.
District 2, 1940-1948.
District 3, 1922-1925.
District 3, 1925-1927.
District 3, 1939-1947.
Area 3, Park Rapids, 1954-1961.
District 4, 1922-1925.
District 4, 1925-1927.
District 4, 1939-1948.
Area 4, Brainerd, 1959.
District 5, 1922-1925.
District 5, 1925-1927.
District 5, 1939-1946.
District 6, 1922-1925.
District 6, 1925-1927.
Area 6, Warroad, 1956.
District 7, 1926-1927.
District 7, 1946.
District 8, 1922-1925.
District 8, 1925-1927.
District 8, 1939-1946.
Area 8, Bemidji, 1952-1956.
District 9, 1922-1925.
District 9, 1925-1927.
District 9, 1939-1948.
Area 9, Blackduck, 1955-1956.
District 10, 1922-1925.
District 10, 1925-1927.
District 10, 1946.
District 11, 1925-[1924?].
District 11, 1925-1927.
District 12, 1922-1925.
District 12, 1926-1927.
District 12, 1928-1931.
District 12, 1938-1946.
Area 12, Hibbing, 1955.
District 13, 1922-1925.
District 13, 1925-1927.
District 13, 1939-1941.
Area 13, Hill City, 1950.
District 14, 1922-1925.
District 14, 1925-1927.
District 14, 1942-1946.
Area 14, Littlefork, 1953-1960.
District 15, 1922-1925.
District 15, 1925-1927.
District 15, 1938-1949.
Area 15, Cloquet, 1956-1957.
District 16, 1922-1925.
District 16, 1925-1927.
District 16, 1939-1948.
Area 16, Orr, 1954-1955.
Area 17, Duluth, 1950-1959.
District 18, 1922-1925.
District 18, 1925-1927.
Area 18, Tower, 1952-1953.
District 19, 1922-1925.
District 19, 1925, 1927.
District 19, 1939-1946.
District 20, 1922-1925.
District 20, 1925-1927.
District 20, 1942-1946.
Subject Files, A - Clarke-McNary:
Airplane Patrol of Forests, 1919-1921.
American Legion, 1938-1948.
Biological Survey, 1936.
Bureau of Land Management, 1947-1952.
Bus Companies, 1924-1927.
Canadian, 1946-1954.
Clarke-McNary. Cooperative Policy and Agreement, 1936-1945.
Clarke-McNary. Correspondence, 1946-1950. 4 folders.
Location
127.I.14.13BSubject Files, Clarke-McNary:
Clarke-McNary, Allotments and Expenditures, 1922-1950. 24 folders.
Clarke-McNary, Inspection of Fires, 1936.
Clarke-McNary, Inspections, 1955.
Clarke-McNary, Personnel Changes Reported to Milwaukee, 1934-1941.
Location
127.I.14.14FClarke-McNary, Miscellaneous and General, 1924-1953. 19 folders.
Clarke-McNary, Office of Production Management, 1941-1945.
Clarke-McNary, Purchase Orders and Requisitions, 1946-1950. 5 folders.
Clarke-McNary, Reports on Budgets, Allotments and Expenditures, 1942-1953.
Clarke-McNary, Statement Prepared for the Director of Budget Bureau, Washington, D.C., 1936.
Clarke-McNary, Statements to Budget Director/Allotments, 1936-1937.
Clarke-McNary, Milwaukee Office, 1950-1957.
Location
127.I.15.1BSubject Files, Co-M:
Cooperative Agreement, 1937-1938.
Cooperative Agreements, Chippewa and Superior, 1942-1948.
Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Education Campaign, Washington Meeting, 1950.
Cordwood Stumpage Prices, 1918.
Emergency Forest Fire Funds, Cooperative Agreement, 1942-1943.
Federal Government, Miscellaneous, 1917-1918.
Federal Reports, 1918-1919.
Flying Fields, Diagrams and Data, 1920.
Fuel Administrator, J. F. McGee, 1917-1918.
Fuel Producers and Consumers, 1917-1918.
Fuel Wood, 1918.
Fuel Wood Campaign, 1917-1918.
Fuel Wood Demand, 1918-1920.
Fuel Wood Supply, 1918-1920.
Galvin Branch, 1924-1925.
Game and Fish Division, 1939-1957.
General Inspection Company, 1918-1919.
Grand Rapids, 1956.
Highway Department, [1921-1922?]; 1942-1947; 1959. 3 folders.
Hydroplanes, 1914-1921.
Indian Department, 1912-1915; 1939-1951. 2 folders.
Kabetogama, 1922-1924.
Koochiching Patrol Association, 1924-1927. 2 folders.
Lake States Forest Experiment Station, 1927.
Lumber Companies, 1921-1956. 5 folders.
Military Department, 1922.
Miscellaneous, 1919-1962. 7 folders.
Location
127.I.15.2FSubject Files, N:
National, 1930-1936. 2 folders.
National Boundaries - Mesabi Purchase Unit, 1931-1938. 2 folders.
National Cooperative Agreements, 1934-1940.
National Defense, 1941-1943.
National Forests, 1921-1959. 8 folders.
National Forests, Buildings, Towers, 1935-1937.
National Forests, Expenditures, 1943-1950.
National Forests - 25% of Receipts to Counties Through State Auditor, 1942-1958.
National Forests, Wales Equipment, 1936-1940.
National Guard and State, 1938-1949.
National Park Service, 1936-1947.
National Park Service, St. Croix Area, 1937-1945.
Nett Lake - Bear River Protective Area, 1924-1927. 2 folders.
Newspaper Clipping, Complaints, Criticisms, 1923-1931.
Newspapers, All Districts, 1936-1949.
Location
127.I.16.2FSubject Files, O-Z:
Peat Burning Experiments, 1919-1922.
Post Offices, 1949-1954.
Railroad and Warehouse Commission Opinions, 1929-1950.
Rainy Lake-International, 1924, 1925, 1927. 2 folders.
Red Cross Program, Fire Prevention, 1944-1947.
Spruce for Airplane Stock, 1917-1918.
State Board of Relief, 1921-1924.
State Parks Division, 1945-1948.
State Troops, 1922.
Southeastern Minnesota, 1935-1947.
Townships, 1916-1927. 2 folders.
Townships/Counties, Pump Tanks Purchased, 1939-1954. 2 folders.
Township Fire Wardens, 1927-1928.
Township Telephone Lines, 1912-1928. 2 folders.
United States Forest Service, 1941-1955. 2 folders.
United States Forest Service, Annual Reports, 1941-1953.
United States Forest Service, Unappropriated Public Forest Lands, 1940-1945. 4 folders.
United States Forest Service, War Forest Fire Cooperation, 1943-1946. 3 folders.
United States Forest Service, Wartime Forest Fire Prevention Posters and Signs, 1942-1945.
United States Forest Service, Washington Annual Report, F. A. Silcox, 1937.
War Industries Board, 1918.
Weather Bureau, 1914-1923. 2 folders.
Weeks Law (C. A. Hoar) General, 1916-1924. 3 folders.
Weeks Law, Instructions, Supervision, 1916-1917.
Whitewater State Park, 1937-1941.
Wireless, 1922.
Wood Dealers Meeting, 1918.
Location
127.I.16.7BClarke-McNary Fire Reports, 1930-1958.
Location
127.I.16.6FClarke-McNary Cost of Protection and Area Worksheets, 1928-1959; Clarke-McNary Inspections, 1936-1956.

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Expand/CollapseO - FIRE PROTECTION, 1919-1962:

Location
127.I.15.3BFire Protection by Area Nos. 1-20.
A-E.
Location
127.I.15.4FF-N.
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127.I.15.5BO-Z.
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127.I.15.3BPublic Domain Lands, 1939-1955. 6 folders.

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Expand/CollapseO - GEOGRAPHY, 1914-1960.

Location
127.I.15.6FCorrespondence and Miscellaneous Files, By District, 1914-1960. 30 folders.

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Expand/CollapseO - PERSONNEL, 1935-1959:

Location
127.I.15.6FPersonnel-related Subject Files, 1935-1959. 9 folders.
Requirements, reclassifications, training manuals, etc.

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Expand/CollapseO - CCC (CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS), 1934-1942:

Location
127.I.15.7BCamp Files, 1934-1942. 18 folders.
Information organized by camp.

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Expand/CollapseO - ECW (EMERGENCY CONSERVATION WORK), 1933-1942:

Location
127.I.15.7BLeases for camps, 1933-1942. 26 folders.

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Expand/CollapseO - WPA (WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION), 1939-1949:

Location
127.I.15.7BArea Timber Survey Reconnaissance, 1939-1949. 4 folders.

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Expand/CollapseO - IMPROVEMENTS, 1921-1961:

Location
127.I.15.7BIndex; Camp Site 1-27. 25 folders.
Location
127.I.15.8FCamp Site 28-36; Area 2-20; and Miscellaneous Files
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127.I.15.6FRice Lake Project, 1928-1941. 9 folders.
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127.I.16.10FLeases Nos. A1-A90, Abandoned, Cancelled, 1921-1936. 4 packets.

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Expand/CollapseO - BRUSH DISPOSAL, 1918-1920:

Location
127.I.14.14FOperations in Cut Foot Sioux Country, 1918-1920.
Loggers Checkings, 1919-1920.
Field book used by Ernest Green.

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Expand/CollapseO - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION, 1925-1930:

Location
127.I.16.9BCooperation, 1925-1928.
Game and Fish, 1925-1926.
Immigration Department, 1925-1930.
Itasca Park, 1925-1928.
Land and Lakes Attraction Board, 1925-1928.
Miscellaneous, 1925-1927.
Policy, 1925-1926.
State Auditor, 1925-1928.

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Expand/CollapseO - FIRES, 1914-1962:

Location
127.I.15.13BBy District, Nos. 2-20, 1918-1927.
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127.I.15.14FBy Area, Nos. 1-18, 1950-1962:
Area 1, 1950-1962.
Area 2, 1950-1958.
Area 3, 1950-1958.
Area 4, 1950-1959.
Area 5, 1957.
Area 6, 1950-1959.
Area 7, 1950-1957.
Area 8, 1950-1960.
Area 9, 1950-1957.
Area 10, 1950-1960.
Area 11, 1956-1957.
Area 12, 1950-1957.
Area 13, 1950-1961.
Area 14, 1950-1957.
Area 15, 1952-1960.
Area 16, 1950-1957.
Area 17, 1950-1957.
Area 18, 1957.
Miscellaneous Files, 1914-1962:
Miscellaneous, National Forests, 1914-1927.
Itasca Park, 1917-1923.
Assistance of Settlers in Burned Over Areas, 1917-1919.
Moose Lake - Cloquet, 1918-1921.
Fire Mapping, 1918-1919.
Fires, General Correspondence, 1918.
Fire Evidence, 1918-1920.
Miscellaneous Fire Data, 1920-1923. 2 folders.
H. G. Weber Reports, 1921.
Adequate Protection Budget, 1921-1932.
Executive Council, 1922, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1932.
Request for Fire Data, 1922-1926.
Outside Ranger Districts, 1924-1927.
Special Check, A. C. DePuy, 1924-1925.
Reports of Weather Conditions, Daily Expense, 1924-1925.
Reports (from all districts), 1927.
Hay and Feed Relief, Wayland and Hay Creek Fires, 1931.
Instructions, Control, 1938.
Guide in Compiling Fire Records, 1938-1947.
Railroad Claims, 1950-1956.
Fire Review, 1954-1957.
Fire Review, Action on Fires, 1954-1959.
"Fire Meeting," Lake States, 1954-1956.
Auxiliary Forest, Northwest Paper Company, 1954-1957.
Electric Fences, 1955.
Chengwatana State Forest, 1955.
Miscellaneous, 1956-1962.
Statistics, Reports, 1957-1962.
Grand Rapids, 1957-1959.
Spring Fire Season, Miscellaneous, 1958.
Fire Review, Bullard Township Fire, 1958.
Fall, Fire Season, 1958.
Location
127.I.16.1BRailroad Fires, 1928-1953:
Includes Biennial Reports, 1928-1948; Annual Reports, 1933-1952; Michigan Reports, 1944-1949; Wisconsin Reports, 1943-1949; Individual Railroad Reports, 1949-1953; Miscellaneous Files regarding Railroad Equipment, etc.
Location
127.I.16.7BRed Lake Fires, 1923-1933.
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127.I.16.9BRed Lake Fires, 1923-1933.

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Expand/CollapseO - SUPERVISION, 1913-1962:

Location
127.I.15.9BDirector, Coordinator, Supervisors, and Rangers:
Itineraries and Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1919-1962:
Alphabetical by employee.
Earl J. Adams, 1957.
A. K. Anderson, Regional Coordinator, 1942-1956.
E. Bachmann, 1938-1959.
Clarence B. Buckman, 1956-1961.
M. M. Buckman, 1919.
William M. Byrne, 1922-1931-1935-1945. 2 folders.
John Childs, 1956-1961.
Ray Clement, 1935-1959.
G. M. Conzet, 1920-1938. 3 folders.
Karl A. Danielson, 1936-1937.
E. A. Foster, 1938.
J. C. Gannaway, 1935-1945.
George Gaylord, 1935-1938.
John L. Geer, 1952-1954.
Phil H. Hanson, 1934-1943.
J. H. Hubbard, 1941-1946-1951-1956. 2 folders.
Joseph Kehborn, 1935-1937.
Emil G. Kukachka, 1955-1960.
E. A. Linder, 1919-1926-1935-1937. 2 folders.
H. Munson, 1936-1945.
N. N. Nadeau, 1935-1936.
William F. Olson, 1944-1945.
A. F. Oppel, 1926-1956. 2 folders.
H. Ostergaard, 1935-1958.
A. E. Pimley, 1922-1954. 2 folders.
Clarence Prout, 1935-1953. 3 folders.
C. M. Roberts, 1935-1940.
Adrian Schmit, 1939.
Roy A. Schneider, 1940-1943.
Harold Searls, 1934-1940.
P. W. Sw edberg, Regional Coordinator, 1940-1944.
H. G. Weber, 1919-1922-1934-1947. 2 folders.
Don Wilson, 1944-1945-1951-1962. 2 folders.
Location
127.I.15.10FBy Districts Nos. 2-20, 1914-1926:
District 2, 1914-1922.
District 3, 1914-1926.
District 4, 1922-1926.
District 5, 1921-1926.
District 6, 1914-1926.
District 7, 1926.
District 8, 1914-1926.
District 9, 1914-1926.
District 10, 1924-1926.
District 11, 1922-1926.
District 12, 1914-1926.
District 13, 1919-1926.
District 14, 1916-1926.
District 15, 1915-1926.
District 16, 1921-1926.
District 18, 1915-1926.
District 19, 1922-1926.
District 20, 1920-1925.
Annual Report Data, 1923.
ApRoberts Forest Working Plans, 1935-1936.
Area Supervisors Meeting, 1954-1955. 2 folders.
Burntside Forest, 1916-1917.
Circular "Teapail Fires," 1933.
Emergency Ration List, 1914-1915.
Equipment Inspection Reports, 1934.
File Designations, 1939-1945.
File Designations and Transferred, 1946-1955.
Forest-Entomology School, 1939-1940.
Forestry Board, 1918-1925. 2 folders.
Forestry Board Meetings, 1919-1925.
Forms, 1924-1945. 6 folders.
Location
127.I.15.11BSubject Files, G-M, 1913-1957.
Governor's Approval-Out of State Travel, 1931, 1937, 1956. 4 folders.
Grand Rapids, 1950-1957.
Inspectors, Miscellaneous, 1917-1924.
Inspection Reports, 1914-1936. 4 folders.
Itasca Park- Douglas Lodge and Cottages, 1914-1926. 3 folders.
Itasca Park-Douglas Lodge Bids, 1924-1925.
Itasca Park-Douglas Lodge Leases, 1917-1925.
Itasca Park-Logging, 1915-1929. 4 folders.
Itasca Park-Superintendent, 1915-1936. 4 folders.
Jay Cooke Park, 1916.
Leases Executed by All Divisions of Conservation Department, 1936.
Linder's Inspection Reports, 1927.
Manual of Instruction, undated, 1924-1930.
Meetings, 1937-1948. 5 folders.
Location
127.I.15.12FSubject Files, N-R, 1913-1957.
Office - Staff Meetings - Inspectors, 1927-1945. 4 folders.
Patrolmen's Examinations, 1913-1937. 3 folders.
Patrolmen's School, Grand Rapids, 1937.
Personnel Meetings, 1949-1954.
Personnel Ratings, 1936.
Planting School, 1940-1941.
Progress Report of Office Men, 1922-1925.
Public Examiners Reports, 1918-1925.
Ranger Meetings, 1914-1938. 12 folders.
Rangers, Acknowledgement of Circulars, 1937.
Rangers, Instructions to Patrolmen, 1913-1931. 2 folders.
Reorganization, 1937-1946.
Location
127.I.16.3BSubject Files, S-Z, 1913-1957,
Service Ratings, Miscellaneous, 1931.
Sheep Grazing, 1917, 1920, 1925.
Six-Months Work Plan, 1933-1935.
State Parks, 1935. 2 folders.
Suggestions, 1914-1926. 2 folders.
Task Force Work Manual, 1955-1956.
Telegrams, 1933-1945. 2 folders.
Timber Marking School, 1940-1942.
Historic Pageants, 1932-1936:
Schoolcraft Pageant, 1932. 2 folders.
Pageant Manuscript, 1933. 5 folders.
Pageant Write Up, 1933-1934.
Pageant, 1934. 3 folders.
Pageant, 1935.
Pageant, 1936.
Location
127.I.16.14FRangers Ten Year Plans by Districts, 1931-1936:
Work Plans, 1937-1955.
See also SI-State Forest Reports.

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Expand/CollapseO - ORDERS, 1911-1923:

Location
127.I.17.1BCircular Letters, 1911-1919.
Memoranda, 1914-1923.
Circulars to Rangers and Supervisors, 1915-1923.

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Expand/CollapseO - EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, 1911-1929:

Location
127.I.17.1BItasca Park, 1914-1919.
Itasca Park, 1919-1921.
Itasca Park, Douglas Lodge Inventory, 1911-1925.
Engines - Universal, 1925-1927.
Miscellaneous, 1924-1928.
Pumps - Evinrude, 1924-1928.
Speeders, 1924-1928.
Sprayers, 1925-1928.
Tractors, 1924-1927.
Trucks, 1924-1929.

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Expand/CollapseO - REPORTS, 1911-1939:

Location
127.I.16.12FCorrespondence regarding Reports by Districts, Nos. 2-20, 1914-1923.
Ranger Annual Reports to State Forester, 1923-1928.
Forestry Board's Report to Governor and State Forester's Report, 1918-1924.
Inspectors and Supervisors Reports, 1921-1924.
State Forest Reports, 1932-1934:
Land Classification Report, General Summary, 1932-1933.
Cloquet Valley State Forest Report, 1932-1933.
Foot Hills State Forest Report, undated.
George Washington State Forest Report, 1932-1933.
Kabetogama State Forest Report, 1932.
Paul Bunyan State Forest Report, 1934.
White Earth State Forest Report, 1933.
Location
127.I.17.2FRanger Work Plans (by Districts, Nos. 2-20), 1936:
Forest Management Plan for Itasca Park, undated.
Minnesota Forest Service Manual of Instructions, undated.
G. M. Conzet, Director, Division of Forestry, Comments on "A Forest Policy for Minnesota" by Robert ApRoberts, 1936.
Herman C. Wenzel, Commissioner of Conservation, Reference Material on Forestry Program, 1939.
Location
127.I.17.3BItasca Park Diaries, January 2, 1911-January 14, 1918; January 1919-April 26, 1921. 10 vols.
Itasca Park Diaries (typed copies), January-March 1920; April 1921-1924.
Itasca Park. Correspondence regarding Diary Reports, 1915-1916. 1 folder.
Itasca Park Monthly Summaries of Work, 1919-1923. 1 folder.

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Expand/CollapseCATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
Parks -- Minnesota -- Employees.
Forests and forestry -- Minnesota.
Forest fires -- Minnesota.
Forest rangers -- Minnesota.
Forest fires -- Prevention and control.
Forest reserves -- Minnesota.
Forest policy -- Minnesota.
Forest management -- Minnesota.
Forest districts -- Minnesota.
Forests and forestry -- Equipment and supplies -- Inventories.
Meteorology -- Observations.
Forests and forestry.
Organizations:
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Minnesota.
Itasca State Park.
Minnesota. Department of Conservation.
Minnesota Works Progress Administration.
Document Types:
Maps.
Journals.
Field notes.

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