Bridge East Side in Fall (3.102645)
Date: October 31 2016Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge in the East Woods in the Fall with fallen leaves on the bridge and forest floor.
Bridge in East Woods Fall (3.102646)
Date: October 31 2016Creator: Lima, Dulcey
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge in East Woods in Fall with wide view. There are many yellow and orange leaves on the ground, bridge and there are many still on the trees.
The Arboretum’s East Woods: Are They Forever? (3.10965)
Date: December 21 1987 – March 20 1988Creator: Wilhelm, Gerould
Type: Article
Looking Through a Portal in Time (3.11040)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1992Creator: Simpson, Thomas
Type: Article
Forest Nature Trail Guide (3.24674)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Book
Description:The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet: commercial reproduction of the original art with additional descriptive text.
The booklet contains 16 pages of information about the Forest Nature Trail and includes maps on front cover and second page, key to the trees in the woods on back cover, and other pages with illustrations and text descriptions of trail features.
[Two versions of the commercially printed booklet have been identified with a difference in the front cover (page 1) as to where the trail begins: Parking Number Ten and Parking Number Twenty-eight.]
*Note attached to later printing identifies changes along the trail since trail guide was first released.
Extent: 1 booklet
Forest Road through wooded area looking east (3.32141)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road through wooded area looking east
*located at about 125-T on Arboretum map/grid
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road in winter with bur oaks arching over road return (3.32164)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter with bur oaks arching over road return
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road in winter near Buckeye Collection (3.32165)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter near Buckeye Collection
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road in winter, possibly leading to woodlot (3.32166)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, possibly leading to woodlot
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road in winter, probably near Buckeye Collection (3.32167)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road in winter, probably near Buckeye Collection
Extent: 1 negative
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 01 No. 04 (3.32251)
Date: July 1925Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Serial
Description:
- Forest Trees and Reafforestation - Experiments
- Wildflowers
Extent: 4 pages
Bulletin of Popular Information V. 01 No. 05 (3.32252)
Date: August 1925Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Serial
Description:
- First Report On Our Experimental Plantings Of Forest Trees (Continued from Bulletin No. 4)
- Wildflowers
Extent: 6 pages
Unpaved road through wooded area near Puffer gravel pit (3.32772)
Date: 1930Type: Photographic image
Description:Unpaved road through wooded area near Puffer gravel pit
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road, unpaved, curving to right in wooded area (3.33200)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road, unpaved, curving to right in wooded area
200 feet east of lower end of Meadow Road intersection (near present parking #13)
Original Ed Puffer land
Extent: 1 negative
Looking south in wooded area, water falling off tree root (3.33556)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking south in wooded area, water falling off tree root
*located at about 107-K on Arboretum map/grid
Extent: 1 negative
Stream curving through woods, looking south (3.33559)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Stream curving through woods, looking south
*located at about 107-K on Arboretum map/grid
Extent: 1 negative
Jason "Jake" Miesbauer measuring a tree trunk at The Morton Arboretum (3.36297)
Date: July 11 2013Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Jason "Jake" Miesbauer, research arborist, and Marvin Lo, research assistant, measuring and recording the circumference of a tree trunk in the East Woods of The Morton Arboretum
Historic Land Use and Current Vegetation in the Morton Arboretum's East Woods (3.36437)
Creator: McBride, Jenny
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheets
View from railing toward forestry plot (3.37875)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View from railing toward forestry plot
Extent: 1 negative
Virginia bluebells in the East Woods (3.39919)
Date: April 19 2010Creator: Ervin, Nicole
Type: Photographic image
Description:Virginia bluebells carpet the ground underneath tall trees in spring in the East Woods at The Morton Arboretum
Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat (3.41404)
Date: November 19 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat showing largest native in East Woods
Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat (3.41405)
Date: November 19 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat showing largest native in East Woods
1992/05/21: Jerry Wilhelm to Chris Whelan (3.44209)
Date: May 21 1992Creator: Wilhelm, Gerould
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Jerry Wilhelm to Chris Whelan in response to a memo dated May 7, 1992 discussing the governing philosophy of the curation and maintenance of the Arboretum's Collections versus experimental science, with an emphasis on the East Woods.
Extent: 1 sheet
1992/04/07: Chris Whelan to George [Ware] and various staff members (3.44210)
Date: April 7 1992Creator: Whelan, Christopher J.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Chris Whelan to various staff members requesting input in regards to the educational, management, and research issues that they consider important in relation to the East Woods. A post-it note is attached to the memo, signed Chris W. and dated April 14, 1992, asking George [Ware] to review the content.
Extent: 4 sheets
1992/06/03: Rick Hootman and Pat Kelsey to Chris Whelan (3.44211)
Date: June 3 1992Creator: Hootman, Rick, Kelsey, Pat
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Rick Hootman and Pat Kelsey to Chris Whelan regarding research questions and other issues of concern regarding the East Woods.
Extent: 2 sheets
1992 /06/12: Thomas B. Simpson, Dilip Das, and Craig B. Johnson to Chris [Whelan] (3.44212)
Date: June 12 1992Creator: Simpson, Thomas, Das, Dilip, Johnson, Craig B.
Type: Document
Description:Memo signed by Thomas B. Simpson, Dilip Das, and Craig Johnson to Chris [Whelan] regarding the management of the East Woods.
Extent: 4 sheets
1992/06/03: Peter van der Linden to Chris Whelan (3.44213)
Date: June 3 1992Creator: van der Linden, Peter J.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Peter van der Linden to Chris Whelan concerning research, education, and management of the East Woods.
Extent: 1 sheet
Table of Changes in Basal Area Arboretum's East Woods, 1980-1985 (3.44233)
Type: Document
Description:"Growth and decline of forest trees of the Morton Arboretum's east woods (King's Grove) from 1980 to 1985. Measurements are expressed in increases or decreases in square inches of basal area/acre."
1992/05/12: Tom Green to Chris Whelan (3.44241)
Date: May 12 1992Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Tom Green to Chris Whelan concerning the inclusion of the East Woods in the overall Master Plan for The Morton Arboretum landscape. Management treatment studies, whose results could be shared with others working to manage woodlands in the Chicago region and beyond, are also presented.
Extent: 2 sheets
1992/06/02: Gary Watson to Chris Whelan (3.44242)
Date: June 2 1992Creator: Watson, Gary W.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Gary Watson to Chris Whelan concerning East Woods research, education, and management.
Extent: 1 sheet
1991/03/04: Gerard Donnelly to Gerould Wilhelm (3.44243)
Date: March 4 1991Creator: Donnelly, Gerard T.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Gerard Donnelly to Gerould Wilhelm reviewing a research proposal on the restoration and management of different Arboretum plant communities, including two overlay sheets on the maps in the research proposal.
Extent: 14 sheets
Quercus macrocarpa (Bur Oak), habitat (3.46542)
Creator: Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus macrocarpa (Bur Oak), habitat
Checklist of the spontaneous plants of The Morton Arboretum and Hidden Lake Forest Preserve (3.47707)
Date: 2012Creator: Sturner, Jason, Hipp, Andrew
Type: Article
Jerry Wilhelm in the East Woods (3.5222)
Date: 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Jerry Wilhelm in the East Woods
Extent: 1 photograph
Revised Plat of Section "B," Morton Arboretum (3.5325)
Date: November 21 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys the area east of Route 53 in the central portion of the Arboretum and extending eastward to the East Woods, a tract totaling 318.996 acres.
Includes notes in red pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
Revised Plat of Section "C," Morton Arboretum (3.5330)
Date: December 11 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys approximately half of the East Woods area, a tract totaling 158.117 acres.
Includes notes in red pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet