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In 1926, we began using motion picture trucks as part of our forestry education program efforts. These trucks showed over 4,000 motion picture shows, which included forestry and comedy films, to over 600,000 Texans from 1926 to 1939.
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At midnight on Christmas Eve in 1854, settlers bent in prayer for mass under live oak trees overlooking the junction of the San Antonio and Cibolo rivers.
Read about the Panna Maria Oaks: https://t.co/yqVWCWP3at #RootsofTexasForestry
Before steam-powered skidders, large trees harvested in East Tx were likely moved with a Martin Log Cart manufactured in Lufkin. Like this photo from 1910, the logs were loaded on the carts with mules or oxen and were pulled to a central log deck. #RootsofTexasForestry
🌱 Indian Mound Nursery Manager W. Lawrence Marshman kneels in a field of recently lifted seedlings in 1945. He inspects the roots of a few seedlings that were heeled-in, or temporarily planted, until they can be packaged for customers.
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At midnight on Christmas Eve in 1854, settlers bent in prayer for mass under live oak trees overlooking the junction of the San Antonio and Cibolo rivers.
Read about the Panna Maria Oaks: https://t.co/yqVWCWP3at #RootsofTexasForestry
#TexasArborDay is Nov 3! Historians trace Arbor Day’s back to the 5th century when Swiss villagers gathered to plant groves of oak trees. Adults turned the event into a festival and children were given treats for their help planting trees. #ThrowbackThursday #RootsofTexasForestry
This Ford car was part of an educational program to increase public awareness of forests and forest fires circa 1927. Equipped with a portable motion picture projector and generator, films were shown to rural communities. #ThrowbackThursday #RootsofTexasForestry
🔥During a grass fire in 1945, a flapper and backpack water pump are being used on frontal attack. #ThrowbackThursday #RootsofTexasForestry
#ThrowbackThursday circa 1954 - Lookout and Firefighter Alsey Cromeens holds one of the first talking Smokey Bear dolls. In the early ‘50s these dolls came with 2 Smokey stickers and an application to be a Junior Forest Ranger. #RootsofTexasForestry
E.L. Kurth, president of Southland Paper Mills Inc., breaks ground for the first southern yellow pine paper mill near Lufkin in 1939. 🌲🪵
The Southland Paper Mills was the first mill in the south to utilize southern pines for newsprint. #RootsofTexasForestry #ThrowbackThursday
In 1865, in the shade of 2 bois d’arc trees, masters and slaves from 14 plantations in Brazoria Co. assembled. The local agent of the Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees and Abandoned Lands held the meeting to free the slaves officially. #RootsofTexasForestry👉 https://t.co/b6qvFWlWIV
In the past, Texas A&M Forest Service encouraged the public to climb fire towers to educate about forest fires and wildfire prevention. Those who climbed 80-100 feet up to the cab signed a log book. #ThrowbackThursday #RootsOfTexasForestry
#ThrowbackThursday to 1926 when this crew of 13 helped erect the first steel fire lookout tower on State Forest #1, now known as the E.O. Siecke State Forest. The tower was 80 feet tall with a 7-square-foot cab. In its first year, 135 fires were detected. #RootsofTexasForestry
Texas State Forester Sieke and Chief White discuss wildfire statistics in the early 1940s at what is now known as the E. O. Sieke State Forest for a Patrolman’s Conference or personnel meeting. #ThrowbackThursday #RootsofTexasForestry
A flashback in time to 1956 with swamper C.L. Springfield and crew leader Cal T. Moursund posing with a state-of-the-art crawler bulldozer at the Daingerfield Lookout Tower in Northeast Texas.
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A Boy Scout troop from Kirbyville, Tx poses for a picture with a Texas A&M Forest Service’s fire prevention signs in 1927. Signs were located throughout East Tx. The agency targeted fire prevention messaging to groups like the Boy Scouts. #ThrwobackThursday #RootsofTexasForestry
Part-time crewman Emery Covington, in 1950, worked as a lookout and patrolman for the agency. Covington was responsible for fire prevention education at local public schools, conducting interviews with media and more. 🔥
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A sawyer sharpens his crosscut saw in 1940, the tool of choice in the era. Prior to the introduction of gasoline powered chainsaws, these tools usually required the coordinated efforts of two individuals to fell trees in East Texas. #RootsofTexasForestry #ThrowbackThursday
Typical agency fire fighters in 1943 (L-R) Grady Love, Sidney Griggs and Jack Phelps. Along with suppressing fires, they served as fire tower lookouts, conducted fire prevention programs and maintained the telephonic communication system. #ThrowbackThursday #RootsofTexasForestry
Through the 1940s, Texas A&M Forest Service constructed and maintained a telephone system to support forest fire reporting and communication between fire lookouts and field offices throughout East Texas. 🌲🔥 #ThrowbackThursday #RootsofTexasForestry
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