Hand holding melaleuca twig
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Treating mg Hazard + safety
Crewman cutting low branches from melaleuca
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
Helicopter flying over melaleuca grove
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: DeVries
Crewman cutting melaleuca stumps with saw
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control site 1486 before treatment
Melaleuca cutting
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Ingrid Olmstead in a melaleuca tree
Young melaleuca near wire fence
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca; Loxahatchee Refuge
View of crewman through tall grass
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca
Crewman holding melaleuca branch
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control
Crewman gathering cuttings from melaleuca
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Exotic crew preparing herbacides
Crewmen treating melaleuca stumps
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Mg head from air
Melaleuca cutting
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca; Loxahatchee Refuge
Treated melaleuca marker
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control hack & squirt
Tops of stand of young melaleucas
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Foliar spray site # Napalm Acres
Helicopter flying over melaleuca grove
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Treating Mg
Crewman cutting melaleuca stumps with saw
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control mixing herbacide
Crewman pulling sapling from ground
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control; emerald city #1399
Helicopters in melaleuca control plot
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control sample plot tally in broadcast area
Melaleuca stumps with herbicides
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Melaleuca control site #1391; Isolated site in East Everglades
Photographs of plants approximately 1913-1934 / collected and captioned by Gifford.
Gifford introduced the cajupet melaleuca to Florida in 1906, when he planted seeds from Cuba at Davie (The tree is native to Australia). Melaleucas were intended to help reclaim lands by absorbing water and drying wetlands.
1934
John Gifford inspecting a melaleuca branch, Davie, June 4, 1938.
Gifford introduced melaleucas to South Florida, to drain Everglades wetlands; (Funding) Electronic reproduction. Miami, Fla. : Reclaiming the Everglades, c2000. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. Digitized from photograph at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, Florida.
1938
Dense thicket of young melaleuca
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: East Everglades- early stages of melaleuca invasion; Sept. 78
Melaleuca with brown leaves
Everglades National Park; National Park Service
On slide: Chemical treatment of aquatic weeds in L-67; 11-30-78
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