Government employees

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.

Unidentified Foresters at Castle Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

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

Tommy the Cook, left, and Lyle F. Watts with the Moose on the sled in the Wyoming National Forest. See also photo 2009-3185.