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Thirty-five to fifty year old elm, yellow birch, maple basswood, hemlock, black cherry, and white ash trees flourish in Wisconsin's Nicolet National Forest. This photo was taken two years after foresters made an improvement cut of 1200 board feet per acre. The residual stand is 3500 board feet per acre. Photos 2009-3080-01 through 2009-3080-107 were originally mounted in a leather bound binder with the gold embossed title, "Picture Memories of Region Nine." Region Nine, based in Milwaukee, WI, covered twenty states in the Eastern Region: Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey. Lyle Watts was Regional Forester of Region Nine 1936-1943.