Forest Service

Portrait of Lyle Watts, Chief or U.S. Forest Service, looking up with the sun behind him, not wearing the glasses he normally wore. Photos 2009-2970 through 2009-2987 are from a typewritten notebook with a title page which reads, "United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Inspection Trip. Lyle F. Watts Chief, Forest Service. W.B. Rice Regional Forester. Boise National Forest. August 3 to 4, 1945. Presented by T.H Van Meter, Forest Supervisor, Boise National Forest."

Lyle F. Watts, Chief of U.S. Forest Service, at Bald Mountain Lookout, Boise National Forest. Photos 2009-2970 through 2009-2987 are from a typewritten notebook with a title page which reads, "United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Inspection Trip. Lyle F. Watts, Chief, Forest Service. W.B. Rice, Regional Forester. Boise National Forest. August 3 to 4, 1945. Presented by T.H Van Meter, Forest Supervisor, Boise National Forest.

Fenced cemetery in Idaho City, Idaho within the Boise National Forest. Notice how the Ponderosa Pine trees are growing inside the burial plot taking over the small cemetery.

Portrait of Lyle F. Watts, Chief of U.S. Forest Service. Photos 2009-2970 through 2009-2987 are from a typewritten notebook with a title page which reads, "United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Inspection Trip. Lyle F. Watts, Chief, Forest Service. W.B. Rice Regional Forester. Boise National Forest. August 3 to 4, 1945. Presented by T.H Van Meter, Forest Supervisor, Boise National Forest."

Boise Basin from Bald Mountain Lookout at Boise National Forest. Photos 2009-2970 through 2009-2987 are from a typewritten notebook with a title page which reads, "United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Inspection Trip. Lyle F. Watts - Chief, Forest Service. W.B. Rice - Regional Forester. Boise National Forest. August 3 to 4, 1945. Presented by T. H. Van Meter, Forest Supervisor, Boise National Forest."

U.S. Forester Niederhof, standing giving explanation, with U.S. Forest Service Chief Lyle Watts, at far end of the first row, with other foresters seated on the rocks of the hilly forest. This photo was taken at Parker Creek Experimental Station, later names Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.

Photo of eroded slope with barbed wire fence. Back of photo reads, "Pullman Was [Washington] Mar 29, 1932. Steep slope south of house. Upper slope was covered with snow which caused erosion below. Recent rains have washed slightly where drift was located." This was evidently taken in the state of Washington.

Documentation for a snow study by Lyle Watts. To show scale, a pencil rests beside a pine needled branch nearly covered by snow. Mr. Watts studied the amount of granulation and the effect of the needles on the rate of snow melt.

An unidentified Forester stands in a national forest in Idaho. Back of the photo in pencil reads, "MC -2 Idaho - See two views taken about April 27 This is part of a panorama of 3 pictures taken at same time from same place [illegible]" On a separate line in ink, he writes, "Panorama (C-11-C12-D2)." This would be photos 2009-2940, 2009-2941, and 2009-2946.

Documentation for a snow study by Lyle Watts showing melting snow in a forest in Idaho. The back of the photo reads, "SR - 3. Near SR3 - April 28 Last snow on north side of trees in deep shade."