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1966. Jerry Barnes visits Happy Camp sugar pine planting in June 1966, one month before the Dorena Center was initiated.

Jerry Barnes visits Happy Camp sugar pine planting in June 1966, one month before the Dorena Center was initiated.

 

Photo by: Unknown

Date: June 1966

 

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

Source: DRGC digital 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 early 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