| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
softwood regeneration gap |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | An old field in the Farm Woodlot reverting to white pine and hardwoods. The first pines have been severely weeviled, but younger pines -- afforded some overstory protection -- have suffered little damage. White pine in the Paul Smiths area is regenerating only on old fields, and on some sandy soils. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | softwood |
| Organisms: |
balsam fir red spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Loss of occassional stems from this dense stand of softwoods was enough to encourage balsam fir and red spruce seedlings. Few hardwoods develop under these circumstances. Soil moisture is abundant and probably has a strong influence. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| 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 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel post-harvest softwood |
| Organisms: |
red maple red spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | The compartment also contains smaller trees where only a few trees will be cut. These red maples and red spruce developed after a heavy softwood cut 40-50 years ago. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | softwood |
| Organisms: |
white pine paper birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Mixed conifer-white birch. White pines and birch are about 95 years old. This stand originated the same way as the previous photo. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
gap softwood |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Mixed-conifer stand containing large spruce. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
post-harvest stump softwood |
| Organisms: |
spruce yellow birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Cutover spruce-yellow birch. Big softwoods cut about 1850 and 1908; few other large trees cut in 1950. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
regeneration softwood |
| Organisms: |
aspen fire cherry spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Aspen-fire cherry and some spruce returning to a softwood site severely burned more than 30 years ago. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel softwood |
| Organisms: | balsam fir |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Upper slope balsam fir at 3,759 feet elevation. Growth is slow. At elevations 1,000 feet higher fir generally do not exceed 1/3 this site. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck harvest softwood pulpwood |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Where softwoods were dominant, about 4 cords of pulpwood were cut per acre, and a good stand remains for the future. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel post-harvest softwood |
| Organisms: | balsam fir |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | These fir came in after a softwood cutting about 40 years ago. |
| Date: | 1950 |