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1966. Champion Mine Select Tree with MGR (major gene resistance); adjacent tree with a high level of blister rust infection. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.

Champion Mine Select Tree with MGR (major gene resistance); adjacent tree with a high level of blister rust infection. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.

 

Photo courtesy of: Jerry Barnes

Date: May 1966

 

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.

Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.

 

Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program.

 

To learn more about the history of the DGRC, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...

 

For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...

 

Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth

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Uploaded on February 18, 2017
Taken sometime in 1966