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Taken due north from plot stake 28-67.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Taken due north from plot stake 28-67.
Date: 6/6/1955

Taken N30W from a point 0.83c chain S02E of plot stake 27-67. D. Vander Poel in photo.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
personnel
regeneration
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Taken N30W from a point 0.83c chain S02E of plot stake 27-67. D. Vander Poel in photo.
Date: 6/6/1955

Old growth white pine stump 57" diameter at 2 feet above ground. Annual rings could be counted 30' above ground -- 227 years. Estimated age of tree about 250. Sound above 30'. Total height 147'. Merchantable length 87'. 6' of butt cull, next 22' contained rot but was merchantable 65' sound logs. 7' broken section. 45' top not merchantable. E. and B. Sussice in photo.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: stump
old growth
harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Old growth white pine stump 57" diameter at 2 feet above ground. Annual rings could be counted 30' above ground -- 227 years. Estimated age of tree about 250. Sound above 30'. Total height 147'. Merchantable length 87'. 6' of butt cull, next 22' contained rot but was merchantable 65' sound logs. 7' broken section. 45' top not merchantable. E. and B. Sussice in photo.
Date: 10/23/1953

Bert and Ernest Sussice decking white pine logs. Initial cut to establish a shelterwood for reproduction.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
shelterwood
harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Bert and Ernest Sussice decking white pine logs. Initial cut to establish a shelterwood for reproduction.
Date: 10/23/1953

Foreground -- red spruce stand on small knoll within black spruce swamp. White pine grows on the knoll but not in the swamp.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
swamp
Organisms: white pine
black spruce
red spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Foreground -- red spruce stand on small knoll within black spruce swamp. White pine grows on the knoll but not in the swamp.
Date: 12/4/1952

White pine log 50% cull.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: White pine log 50% cull.
Date: 10/22/1952

Load of spruce and white pine logs cut from compartment 25. Team and log loader. Left -- F. Mose; Center -- R. Perry; Right -- G. Fountain.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
personnel
equipment
Organisms: white pine
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Load of spruce and white pine logs cut from compartment 25. Team and log loader. Left -- F. Mose; Center -- R. Perry; Right -- G. Fountain.
Date: 10/22/1952

Three white pine stumps 30". Over 50 percent cull in logs. At right, entire tree was cull.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
stump
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Three white pine stumps 30". Over 50 percent cull in logs. At right, entire tree was cull.
Date: 10/22/1952

After a stand of large pines were cut about 1900, understory balsam fir and spruce developed to pulpwood size. Only a few pines originated after the cutting in 1900, because spruce and fir already occupied the site.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
harvest
log deck
stump
Organisms: white pine
balsam fir
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: After a stand of large pines were cut about 1900, understory balsam fir and spruce developed to pulpwood size. Only a few pines originated after the cutting in 1900, because spruce and fir already occupied the site.
Date: 1950

A team was used for skidding, but a tractor was required for white pine logs exceeding 36" in diameter. The loader was used to load trucks.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
harvest
horse skidding
road
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: A team was used for skidding, but a tractor was required for white pine logs exceeding 36" in diameter. The loader was used to load trucks.
Date: 1950