Forests and forestry

Portrait of Lyle F. Watts taken about the time he became chief of the U.S. Forest Service.

U.S. Forest Chief Lyle F. Watts, 5th from left, with unidentified others examine a slash pine tree planted sixteen years earlier which at the time of the photo measured 14 inch d.b.h. (diameter at breast height) at Cooperator Walton's Experimental "Stephens Plantation" in Cordele, Georgia. See also photo 2009-3625.

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.

A peculiar tree with four leaders in the snow covered Wasatch National Forest in Utah.

Mosquito Creek in Teton National Forest, Wyoming.

Mosquito Creek, Wyoming near Victor, Idaho in the Teton National Forest.