1947 - Seven Million Trees

Afield with Ranger Mac was broadcast weekly from 1933 to 1954 with Wakelin “Ranger Mac” McNeel.  The program focused on the natural sciences and received a boost in 1935 when the state mandated that schools provide some sort of conservation education, which they could with a radio in the classroom.

McNeel encouraged his young listeners to plant trees. By mid-1944 they had planted more than 7 million of them in more than 200 school forests to help restore timber cutovers in northern Wisconsin.  In 1942, Afield was the first WPR program to win a Peabody Award.

UW-Madison Archives Images: S08152    
Dated ca. 1935-1950

See the gallery below for more photos of McNeel during the 1940s and 50s.