Minnesota State Forestry Board
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Christopher Columbus Andrews was born October 27, 1829, in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. He attended Francetown Academy and Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar before moving to St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1857. He served in the Union Army, Minnesota Infantry, Third Regiment during the Civil War, advancing from Captain to Major General. He was honorably mustered out on January 15, 1866. From 1869 through 1877, Andrews served as United States minister to both Sweden and Norway, and from 1882 through 1885 as consul general to Brazil. He served as chief fire warden, 1895-1905, state forestry commissioner, 1905-1911, and member of the state forestry board, 1905-1922. Andrews lived his later years in St. Paul. He died on September 21, 1922.
From the guide to the Photographs and negatives compiled by C. C. Andrews, Undated and 1889-1909., (Minnesota Historical Society)
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Subjects:
- Afforestation
- Clearcutting
- Conservation of natural resources
- Electric power plants
- Fire protection districts
- Fire wardens
- Fire weather
- Forest conservation
- Forest fires
- Forest fires
- Forest fires
- Forest fires
- Forest fires
- Forest management
- Forest management
- Forest management
- Forest policy
- Forest rangers
- Forest rangers
- Forest roads
- Forestry law and legislation
- Forests and forestry
- Forests and forestry
- Forests and forestry
- Forest surveys
- Fuelwood
- Grassland fires
- Ground cover fires
- Lakes
- Lakes
- Land use
- Local officials and employees
- Logging
- Logging
- Logging
- Lumber camps
- Lumbering
- Lumbering
- Lumbering
- Ojibwa Indians
- Ojibwa Indians
- Prescribed burning
- Railroads
- Railroads
- Red pine
- Resorts
- Rivers
- Rivers
- Tax assessment
- Timber
- Tree planting
- Wages
- White pine
- White pine industry
- White pine industry
Occupations:
Places:
- Lake Superior Forest Reserve (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Chisholm (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Europe (as recorded)
- Burntside State Park (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Pillsbury State Forest (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- International Falls (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota--Protection and control (as recorded)
- Winnibigoshish Indian Reservation (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Leech Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- Cass Lake (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Lake Superior Forest Reserve (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- Burntside State Forest (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- Itasca State Park (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- Burntside State Park (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Chisholm (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Itasca State Park (Minn.) (as recorded)
- White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Missoula (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Missoula (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Lake Winnibigoshish Indian Reservation (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Leech Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.) (as recorded)
- White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota--Chisholm (as recorded)
- International Falls (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Minnesota (as recorded)
- Cass Lake (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Itasca State Park (Minn.) (as recorded)
- Itasca State Park (Minn.) (as recorded)
