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Fran Lawlor with the snow machine in the 1980s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
equipment
road
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Fran Lawlor with the snow machine in the 1980s
Date: 1980s

Regeneration three years after final overstory removal in uniform shelterwood, person with snow machine, in MU23 in 1975
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU23
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
equipment
regeneration
personnel
Organisms: spruce
balsam fir
eastern white pine
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration three years after final overstory removal in uniform shelterwood, person with snow machine, in MU23 in 1975
Date: 1975

Regeneration three years after final overstory removal in uniform shelterwood, person with snow machine, in MU23 in 1975
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU23
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
personnel
regeneration
equipment
Organisms: spruce
balsam fir
eastern white pine
red maple
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration three years after final overstory removal in uniform shelterwood, person with snow machine, in MU23 in 1975
Date: 1975

Frank Roy preparing to skid logs with his horse in MU14, in May 1968
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU14
Compartment Management Study
selection system
equipment
logging
personnel
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Frank Roy preparing to skid logs with his horse in MU14, in May 1968
Date: May-68

Tree planting machine on the Chevelon District
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Collection: Sierra Ancha Historical Images
Keywords: equipment
personnel
research techniques
period attire
Location: Sitgreaves National Forest; USA
Description: Tree planting machine on the Chevelon District
Date: 03/16/1967

J.T. Rhodes at the wheel of a tractor used to skid logs at the Crossett Experimental Forest.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
personnel
equipment
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: J.T. Rhodes at the wheel of a tractor used to skid logs at the Crossett Experimental Forest.
Date: 11/1965

Planting
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
seedling
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Location: Coconino NF; AZ; USA
Description: Planting
Date: 04/1965

Heat-pulse velocity meter
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
period attire
Location: Castle Ck.; AZ; USA
Description: Heat-pulse velocity meter
Date: 1965

Lorain shovel excavator, swamp section of road, in 1956
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
equipment
road
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Lorain shovel excavator, swamp section of road, in 1956
Date: 1956

taking soil moisture measurements
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
soil
research techniques
period attire
study
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Description: taking soil moisture measurements
Date: 07/12/1955

Logging truck in 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Logging truck in 1955
Date: 1955

Logging truck in 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Logging truck in 1955
Date: 1955

George Fountain loading pulpwood with use of mechanical loader.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
equipment
log
personnel
road
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: George Fountain loading pulpwood with use of mechanical loader.
Date: 11/6/1953

Donald Horner bucking skidded pulpwood at the landing. Using chainsaw. Residual stand in the background.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
personnel
pulpwood
equipment
chainsaw
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35
Description: Donald Horner bucking skidded pulpwood at the landing. Using chainsaw. Residual stand in the background.
Date: 2/13/1953

Bucking pulpwood at the landing on comp 35. Shows chainsaw in use; also horse and harness used for skidding.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
harvest
personnel
horse skidding
pulpwood
equipment
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35
Description: Bucking pulpwood at the landing on comp 35. Shows chainsaw in use; also horse and harness used for skidding.
Date: 2/1/1953

Making a log yard for a commercial clearcut, four-wheeled farm tractor skidding the logs, in MU8 in January 1953
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU8
Compartment Management Study
commercial clearcut
personnel
equipment
logging
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Making a log yard for a commercial clearcut, four-wheeled farm tractor skidding the logs, in MU8 in January 1953
Date: Jan-53

Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
personnel
equipment
logging
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
Date: Nov-52

Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
personnel
equipment
logging
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
Date: Nov-52

Bert Sussice felling 20" red spruce with chainsaw.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
personnel
equipment
chainsaw
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Bert Sussice felling 20" red spruce with chainsaw.
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

Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
vehicle
equipment
personnel
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut.
Date: 10/22/1952

Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut. Horses owned by G. Fountain and used for skidding. Log loader and logs in foreground, at landing.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
horse skidding
equipment
personnel
Organisms: birch
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut. Horses owned by G. Fountain and used for skidding. Log loader and logs in foreground, at landing.
Date: 10/1/1952

Preston A. Morse felling American larch with chainsaw, in MU4 in March 1952
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU4
Compartment Management Study
diameter-limit cut
personnel
equipment
logging
Organisms: American larch
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Preston A. Morse felling American larch with chainsaw, in MU4 in March 1952
Date: Mar-52

Loading Logs
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
logging
personnel
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Description: Loading Logs
Date: 08/06/1951

Loading Logs
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
logging
personnel
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Description: Loading Logs
Date: 08/06/1951

Skidding Logs
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
logging
personnel
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Description: Skidding Logs
Date: 08/06/1951

Skidding Logs
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
logging
personnel
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Description: Skidding Logs
Date: 08/06/1951

Rockland Scarifier
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
seeding/planting
Location: Moritz Lake; AZ; USA
Description: Rockland Scarifier
Date: 09/21/1950

Logging truck in 1950s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location:
Description: Logging truck in 1950s
Date: 1950s

Logging truck in 1950s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location:
Description: Logging truck in 1950s
Date: 1950s

Logging truck in 1950s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Logging truck in 1950s
Date: 1950s

Logging truck in 1950s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Logging truck in 1950s
Date: 1950s

Logging truck in 1950s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Logging truck in 1950s
Date: 1950s

Logging truck in 1950s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: equipment
personnel
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Logging truck in 1950s
Date: 1950s

A small TD 6 tractor easily made truck roads in this sandy soil.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
road
equipment
slash
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: A small TD 6 tractor easily made truck roads in this sandy soil.
Date: 1950

Later in winter the black spruce swamp froze enough to remove the wood. Tractor is packing a sled road.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
equipment
log deck
road
swamp
Organisms: black spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Later in winter the black spruce swamp froze enough to remove the wood. Tractor is packing a sled road.
Date: 1950

About 50 years ago white pines occupied the overstory here. The red maples came in after cutting; most are of poor quality even for pulpwood. "Has 50-years growth been wasted?"
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
equipment
stump
post-harvest
Organisms: white pine
red maple
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: About 50 years ago white pines occupied the overstory here. The red maples came in after cutting; most are of poor quality even for pulpwood. "Has 50-years growth been wasted?"
Date: 1950

After cutting, in October 1950.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
equipment
slash
post-harvest
Organisms: maple
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: After cutting, in October 1950.
Date: 1950

Image showing a skidder pulling cut trees out of forest.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
equipment
road
personnel
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 52
Description: Image showing a skidder pulling cut trees out of forest.
Date: 1950

Abandoned Logging Road
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
logging
personnel
Location: Coconino NF; AZ; USA
Description: Abandoned Logging Road
Date: 06/23/1948

Range Study
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Collection: Sierra Ancha Historical Images
Keywords: equipment
personnel
Location: Rio Grande Valley; NM; USA
Description: Range Study
Date: 10/1941

Range Study
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Collection: Sierra Ancha Historical Images
Keywords: equipment
personnel
soil
grasses
Location: Tonto NF; AZ; USA
Description: Range Study
Date: 11/14/1936

Watershed Project
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Collection: Sierra Ancha Historical Images
Keywords: equipment
personnel
dam
construction
Location: Tonto NF; AZ; USA
Description: Watershed Project
Date: 02/11/1936

Watershed Project
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Collection: Sierra Ancha Historical Images
Keywords: equipment
personnel
dam
construction
Location: Sierra Ancha NF; AZ; USA
Description: Watershed Project
Date: 02/05/1936

A sling cyclometer reading by G. A. Pearson
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
period attire
Location: Fort Valley, Coconino N.F.; AZ; United States
Description: A sling cyclometer reading by G. A. Pearson
Date: 7/1924

Krauch, Talbot, and Forbes leaving tool shack for work.
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
grounds
Location: Fort Valley, Coconino N.F.; AZ; United States
Description: Krauch, Talbot, and Forbes leaving tool shack for work.
Date: 1913

Preparing face for a Gilmer & McCall cup
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
turpentine
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Location: Fort Valley Experimental Forest; AZ; United States
Description: Preparing face for a Gilmer & McCall cup
Date: 08/04/1910

Preparing face for cap of Gilmer & McCall cup
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
turpentine
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Location: Fort Valley Experimental Forest; AZ; United States
Description: Preparing face for cap of Gilmer & McCall cup
Date: 08/04/1910

Boring holes in sapwood, three-fourths-inch bit, for Gilmer & McCall cup
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
turpentine
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Location: Fort Valley Experimental Forest; AZ; United States
Description: Boring holes in sapwood, three-fourths-inch bit, for Gilmer & McCall cup
Date: 08/04/1910

Metal cap inserted ready for Gilmer & McCall cup
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: equipment
personnel
turpentine
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Location: Fort Valley Experimental Forest; AZ; United States
Description: Metal cap inserted ready for Gilmer & McCall cup
Date: 08/04/1910