Photos from the WFIWC Archives:
Equipment and Methodology

Walter Buckhorn and pilot John Wear began the first systematic aerial surveys of western forest insect damage in 1947 in the Blue Mountains, Oregon, flying in this military surplus N3N open cockpit biplane. Higher performance aircraft (Cessna 195 and then a 170-B) replaced the old "oil guzzler." Wear was a former naval aviator with a forestry degree from Michigan. He also flew personnel of the Berkeley FIL, including M. Furniss, on annual damage surveys in California. Photo PS no. 786 B, WFIWC archives (Furniss 2000, Fig. 9 A).

Return to Equipment & Methodology Photos

This webpage was last updated on December 3, 2007.
Please send comments to the webmaster.