Page 145 - Early Naturalists of the Black Range

USFS

Painter, McClure, Onstad, Smith, and Hyatt were all collecting for the United States Forest Service and have specimen sheets housed at the USFS National Herbarium (part of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium). This is characteristic of a time when the US Forest Service emerged, along with the universities and Biological Survey, as a major player in the study of natural history. Their very work brought them into daily contact with the natural world and required that they understand it to the best extent possible. What better place to study the natural world than the Hillsboro Peak lookout, shown here in two early photos, along with (the perhaps atypical) Fire Lookout, Miss Anderson (1923) - US Forest Service Photographs.
W. L Onstad
Collected plants in the Black Range, 1921.
H. Garvin Smith
Smith, who collected plants in the Black Range in 1923, joined the US Forest Service in 1917.
Harry H. Hyatt
Collected plants in the Black Range, 1926.
R. P. Boone
Collected plants in the Black Range, 1929-1930. During 1937 he was assigned to the Gila National Forest.
Jay R. McClure
McClure collected plants in the Black Range, 1921. Twenty-one of his specimen sheets are at the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, which includes the U.S. Forest Service National Herbarium and the W.G. Solheim Mycological Herbarium and, collectively contains more than one million specimens.
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