DOUGLAS FIR NEW GROWTH IN OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK WASHINGTON, 05/1973
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. (12/02/1970 - )
Newly planted trees help to keep our National Parks beautiful!
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2XY3
The Hanford Site was first proposed as a nuclear production facility 70 years ago this month in December 1942:
Seventy years ago during World War II, the Hanford Engineering Works was built as part of the Manhattan Project, becoming the first full-scale plutonium enrichment facility in the world.
Its plutonium was used for the test of the world’s first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site at Los Alamos, NM, and the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.
Over the next six weeks, the National Archives at Seattle will be posting formerly classified images of life in this unique community during a crucial era in Washington State and American history.
Today’s images were posted on their Facebook page.
Source: Hanford Photographic Negatives, 1943-1945; DuPont Collection; Records of the Department of Energy (RG 434), National Archives.
November is Native American Heritage Month
Gabe Gobin, an Indian logger, in front of his home. Tulalip Reservation, Washington, 1916
