The Hoosier Nation Forest is headquartered in Bedford, Indiana.

Caring for the Land and Serving People Since 1935

Children enjoy creating pictures of Smokey the Bear.

Forest Service staff fill gravel bags using 5-gallon buckets from a source dumped along the road. The mules then haul the gravel to where it is needed. They also carry a collapsible canvas buckets to haul water or other contents.

A forester carried this clipboard while inventorying forest stands. Using codes, a card would be made for each unique stand in the forest and the information was digitized into a database.