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Overstory of 100-year-old white pine with dense understory of tolerant balsam fir and red spruce. This is typical in this vicinity. There is little opportunity for new white pines. These 100-year-old pines originated after an extremely hot fire burned heavy softwood slash.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: old growth
softwood
personnel
Organisms: white pine
red spruce
balsam fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Overstory of 100-year-old white pine with dense understory of tolerant balsam fir and red spruce. This is typical in this vicinity. There is little opportunity for new white pines. These 100-year-old pines originated after an extremely hot fire burned heavy softwood slash.
Date: 1950

There was more advance softwood reproduction here. The large hemlocks exceed 250 years in age and contained too much shake and rot to be cut. Hemlock pulpwood could not be marketed and many sound, pole-size trees also were left by the cutters.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: softwood
reproduction
old growth
pulpwood
Organisms: hemlock
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: There was more advance softwood reproduction here. The large hemlocks exceed 250 years in age and contained too much shake and rot to be cut. Hemlock pulpwood could not be marketed and many sound, pole-size trees also were left by the cutters.
Date: 1950