Gila National Forest History Photos

from the Southwestern Regional Office files in Albuquerque

1. 1937—Gila National Forest boundary sign on the Silver City-Kingston Road. 300 Resolution (.tif), 1.5 mb	2. 1928—Prehistoric cliff dwellings in Beaverhead Canyon.	3. 1937—Trail riders resting at Gila Cliff Dwellings.	4. n.d.—A narrow gauge railroad to the maines at Pinos Altos.	5. 1928—A road camp on Cherry Creek.
6. 1934—Working over old tailings, using a rocker, to find gold at Whitewater Mill.	7. 1906—Structure on a homestead entry filed by Charles Potter.	8. 1931—McKnight fire lookout cabin in Black Range.	9. 1930—Drilling rock by hand to be blasted.	10. 1928—Willow Creek-White Creek Trail.
11. 1928—Camp for Elk Mountain Truck Trail construction.	12. 1923—Section of trail between Mogollon Baldy and Center Baldy, a 1922 project.	13. 1929—Ranger repairing a telephone line while standing on his horse.	14. 1938—A Civilian Conservation Corps directional sign used on Gila National Forest.	15. 1928—The Beaverhead Ranger Station.
16. n.d.—Pinos Altos Ranger Station at Pinos Altos, New Mexico.	17. 1939—Luna Ranger Station layout.	18. 1929—Rose Peak lookout tower during its construction.	19. n.d.—Hillboro Peak lookout in the mid-1920's.	20. 1923—Miss Cecelia Anderson, the Hillboro Lookout, at the dugout at Hillsboro Peak.
21. 1928—Fire Guards going to a fire on foot.	22. 1928—The "universal outfit" for Rangers.	23. 1908—Meeting of the Gila and Datil Rangers in Silver City.	24. 1938—Ranger and his wife packing.	25. 1938—The Mimbres Ranger and his wife.
26. 1930—Supervisors of the Gila and Datil National Forests share a quiet moment.	27. 1928—Ranger O. B. Beckstrom on his horse, Abe, going to a fire.	28. 1912—A campfire session at the Interforest Ranger Meeting held in Reserve, New Mexico.	29. 1907—Irrigation at Fort Bayard Nursery.	30. 1931—Good fire safety precautions at a sheep camp.
31. 1928—A herd of 450 cattle trailing to market near Pinos Altos.	32. 1928—Another view of the cattle herd going to market near Pinos Altos.	33. 1928—Yucca near Silver City.	34. 1927—A group of sheepherders is receiving instructions (regulations) from the ranch owner.	35. 1936—The spillway on Big Dry Stock Watering Tank.
36. 1932—Willows have come in along a creek after it was fenced.	37. 1939—Cattle at a dirt watering tank.	38. 1939—Watering the ramuda at the roundup.	39. 1912—A view of the Gila's south slopes of Big Burros Peak.	40. 1938—A pack outfit ready to leave Willow Creek for the White Creek CCC Side Camp.
41. 1939—Yucca, the state flower of New Mexico.	42. 1926—A lambing shed on Elk Mountain District of the old Datil.	43. 1927—Lambing tents.	44. 1921—Difference in utilization of forage inside and immediately adjoining a lambing pasture.	45. 1927—Hauling water to a sheep camp.
46. 1939—Some range vegetation.	47. 1922—Sheep grazing on the Otero Allotment.	48. 1922—Horseback riding for recreation in the Gila Wilderness.	49. 1923—The view from Mogollon Baldy.	50. 1939—The West Fork of the Gila River.
51. 1937—Rock spires above the East Fork of the Gila River.	52. 1939—Ancient Indian signs on rocks in the Gila Wilderness.	53. 1932—Falls in Tall Canyon, 2 miles west of Reed's Peak	54. 1939—Holt Mountain with Sheridan Mountain in the foreground.	55. 1931—View looking into Gilita Creek to show crookedness of the stream.
56. 1937—Looking down Sapillo Creek from the North Star Road.	57. 1912—Hauling out logs from the Black Range.	58. 1928—G-16 drift fence and cattle guard along the Mogollon Divide.	59. 1927—Logs in Cutting Area 11 of the John Freany timber sale.	60. 1948—A smokejumper crew, based at Deming, New Mexico, ready for a fire.
61. 1951—Members of the 38^th AAA Battalion, Fort Bliss, Texas, fighting the McKnight fire.	62. 1907—Young timber left standing after the Black Range Lumber Company sale.	63. 1908—A cutting area of the John Freany timber sale in 1907.	64. 1917—A motorcycle van for transporting fire equipment.	65. 1940—Building a fire line at Fire Guard Training School, Beaverhead.
66. 1951—A bulldozer builidng fire line on the McKnight fire.	67. 1928—Low-tech fire suppression — whipping fire out with a pine bough.	68. 1951—Pack animals were used to get supplies to some crews on the 13,500-acre Little Creek fire.	69. 1928—These men are illustrating the parallel method and back-firing.	70. 1934—The fire signal at Beaverhead EWC Camp. An old circular saw blade substitutes for a bell.
71. n.d.—Checking plant reproduction on John Freany's 1906 closed timber sale.	72. 1907—Brush piling on the John Freany timber sale.	73. 1931—A stand of pole size blackjacks south of Negrito Ranger Station.	74. 1929—An alligator juniper tree.	75. 1928—Mexican wood haulers with burros on the Black Range-Hillboro road.
76. 1928—Calipering ponderosa pine timber.	77. n.d.—Heavy equipment destined for the gold mill at Graham (also called Whitewater).	78. 1951—Fire beginning to climb into the tops of trees on the McKnight Fire	79. 1928—Tools set out in front of the toolbox showing equipment at Redstone.	80. 1916—Western yellow pine (left) and adjacent Jeffrey pine plantation set in 1912.
81. n.d.—Deer antlers found in a Navajo Indian camp on Eagle Creek.	82. 1905—Seedlings, 60 days old, of Western yellow pine.	83. 1906—Cordwood cut from tops and defective trees.	84. 1922—A permanent erosion record photo.	85. 1939—Followup photo from an erosion check point.
86. 1933—The upstream arch principle in dam construction.	87. 1933—A rock sausage dam resting on bedrock.	88. 1921—Dead Man Canyon on the boundary of the Big Burros Division.	89. 1933—A dam with a narrow spillway designed to confine water to the center to protect banks.	90. 1924—A native boy, Jose Milligan, at Tularosa Spring with his burro.
91. 1933—Woven wire cylinder construction of a dam.	92. 1929—Deputy State Game Warden checks game licenses as hunters enter the Gila National Forest.	93. 1939—Trout fishing in the Gila Wilderness.	94. 1939—Trail riders, Gila Wilderness.	95. 1934—The "catwalk" built by the Glenwood CCC Camp.
96. 1927— Bringing in a prize deer weighing 201 pounds from Black Mountain.	97. 1927—Hunters spend many dollars with ranchers for horses, meals, and guides.	98. 1927—A party of lion hunters rest with their animals on Middle Fork of the Gila River.	99. 1927—The bobcat (lynx), enemy of wild turkeys and fawns, is treed by dogs.	100. 1938—A bear coming down a tree in Beaver Creek.