Watts, Lyle F. (Lyle Ford), 1890-

U.S. Forest Chief Lyle F. Watts, center with billed cap, and unidentified others in a in Cooperator Walton's experimental "Stephens Plantation" of 127 acres planted 15 feet by 15 feet with native slash pine stock in the Spring of 1936 in Cordele, Georgia. See also photo 2009- 3626.

Oblique portrait of Lyle F. Watts.

Forest management meeting at Big Springs, Idaho National Forest. No names are listed, but Lyle Watts may possibly be in the front row, second from the right.

Rangers with Lyle Watts, center with hand on hip, examine lysimeters in San Dimas Experimental Forest, California. A lysimeter measures the amount of water lost to evapotranspiration in a certain area of soil. Evapotranspiration amounts are the sum of the amounts of water lost through evaporation and transpiration of the plants.

Portrait of Lyle F. Watts, Chief of U.S. Forest Service.

Lyle F. Watts with his walking stick beside a river. Mr. Watts has written on this photo that this is possibly Henry's Fork of the Snake River in Idaho.

Lyle F. Watts stands in front of the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Lyle F. Watts is barely visible in the steam at Giantess Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

L to R: Rope splicers "Art" and "Jack" with Lyle F. Watts hard at work in the Targhee National Forest.

U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region Ranger School, Robinson Bar, Idaho. Lyle Watts is possibly in the front row, second from the left.