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Caption reads:  "A part of Good 40 after 25 years of management and 25 annual harvests."  Man pointing is Russell R. Reynolds.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
farm forestry
personnel
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "A part of Good 40 after 25 years of management and 25 annual harvests." Man pointing is Russell R. Reynolds.
Date: 11/1962

Russ Reynolds (on left) instructing landowners about the benefits of good forestry.  Annual harvest on Poor Farm Forty, Crossett Experimental Forest.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
farm forestry
extension
personnel
field day
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russ Reynolds (on left) instructing landowners about the benefits of good forestry. Annual harvest on Poor Farm Forty, Crossett Experimental Forest.
Date: 11/1962

Russ Reynolds and Ashley County, Ark. Agent Vaught discussing the 25th annual timber harvest on the Good Forty with a group of 4-H Club boys.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
farm forestry
extension
personnel
4-H
field day
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russ Reynolds and Ashley County, Ark. Agent Vaught discussing the 25th annual timber harvest on the Good Forty with a group of 4-H Club boys.
Date: 11/1962

Russ Reynolds instructing landowners about the benefits of good forestry.  Annual harvest on Poor Farm Forty, Crossett Experimental Forest.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
farm forestry
extension
personnel
field day
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russ Reynolds instructing landowners about the benefits of good forestry. Annual harvest on Poor Farm Forty, Crossett Experimental Forest.
Date: 11/1962

Russell R. Reynolds.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
personnel
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russell R. Reynolds.
Date: 11/1962

Russell R. Reynolds showing several men (Custer Ross, unidentified, Reynolds) a pine cut as a part of the 25th annual harvest of the Crossett EF's "Poor" Farm Forestry Forty.  This loblolly pine was 24 inches in DBH and contained 578 board feet of lumber.  Tree had been seriously suppressed when young, and had a fire scar at its base, but grew well for 50 years after release.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
personnel
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russell R. Reynolds showing several men (Custer Ross, unidentified, Reynolds) a pine cut as a part of the 25th annual harvest of the Crossett EF's "Poor" Farm Forestry Forty. This loblolly pine was 24 inches in DBH and contained 578 board feet of lumber. Tree had been seriously suppressed when young, and had a fire scar at its base, but grew well for 50 years after release.
Date: 11/1962

Russell R. Reynolds next to an 18-inch d.b.h. loblolly pine with a volume of 156 board feet in sawtimber and 0.10 cords of pulpwood that has grown from seed on the Poor 40 (CEF) since that demonstration was established.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
personnel
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russell R. Reynolds next to an 18-inch d.b.h. loblolly pine with a volume of 156 board feet in sawtimber and 0.10 cords of pulpwood that has grown from seed on the Poor 40 (CEF) since that demonstration was established.
Date: 11/1962

Caption reads:  "Crossett Research Center project leader [Russell R.] Reynolds and a group of Ashley County, Ark., 4-H Club boys discussing the growth patterns and periodic value of this 22-inch d.b.h. 40-year-old loblolly pine on the Good Forty."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
farm forestry
extension
personnel
4-H
field day
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "Crossett Research Center project leader [Russell R.] Reynolds and a group of Ashley County, Ark., 4-H Club boys discussing the growth patterns and periodic value of this 22-inch d.b.h. 40-year-old loblolly pine on the Good Forty."
Date: 1962

Caption reads:  "Ashley County (Ark.) Agent Vaught discussing the 25th annual timber harvest on the Good Forty with a group of 4-H Club boys."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
farm forestry
extension
personnel
4-H
field day
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "Ashley County (Ark.) Agent Vaught discussing the 25th annual timber harvest on the Good Forty with a group of 4-H Club boys."
Date: 1962

Counting mistletoe seeds
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Collection: RMRS Archive Images
Keywords: personnel
forest pathology
Organisms: ponderosa pine
mistletoe
Location:
Description: Counting mistletoe seeds
Date: 9/8/1961

Russell R. Reynolds leading a tour group from the World Forestry Congress.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
personnel
field tour
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russell R. Reynolds leading a tour group from the World Forestry Congress.
Date: 9/14/1960

Russell R. Reynolds presenting a watch to Claude Williams upon Claude's retirement from the Crossett Experimental Forest, probably in the 1960s.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
personnel
award
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Russell R. Reynolds presenting a watch to Claude Williams upon Claude's retirement from the Crossett Experimental Forest, probably in the 1960s.
Date: 1960s

Personnel burning slash as part of a biomass harvesting study in MU33 in the 1960s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
personnel
site preparation
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Personnel burning slash as part of a biomass harvesting study in MU33 in the 1960s
Date: 1960s

Orman Carrol presentation at strip clearcut in MU33 in the 1960s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
personnel
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Orman Carrol presentation at strip clearcut in MU33 in the 1960s
Date: 1960s

Personnel performing prescriptive burning of slash piles in strip clearcuts in MU33 in the 1960s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
site preparation
strip clearcut
personnel
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Personnel performing prescriptive burning of slash piles in strip clearcuts in MU33 in the 1960s
Date: 1960s

PEF tour given by USFS personnel in MU33 in the 1960s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
personnel
strip clearcut
road
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: PEF tour given by USFS personnel in MU33 in the 1960s
Date: 1960s


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Collection: RMRS Archive Images
Keywords: personnel
watershed management
Location: AZ; United States
Description: Not Available
Date: 1960

reading soil moisture
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: personnel
research techniques
period attire
Organisms: aspen
Location: Apache NF; AZ; USA
Description: reading soil moisture
Date: 10/21/1959

Taken from southwest cor. strip No. 1. Area fenced in 1919 but fence down in 1959. Site very rocky. Pine saplings and seedlings have obscured oaks in background.
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: personnel
regeneration
rocky soil
Organisms: oak
Location:
Description: Taken from southwest cor. strip No. 1. Area fenced in 1919 but fence down in 1959. Site very rocky. Pine saplings and seedlings have obscured oaks in background.
Date: 09/15/1959

Initial stand photo taken facing S60E from a point 19 feet N43E of stake 53-9.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 6
Description: Initial stand photo taken facing S60E from a point 19 feet N43E of stake 53-9.
Date: 7/21/1959

Red spruce regeneration under eastern hemlock overstory on December 3 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
regeneration
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Red spruce regeneration under eastern hemlock overstory on December 3 1958
Date: 12/3/1958

Image taken at coordinates 90-24; direction N50E; distance 141ft; with a bearing of N14W; snow depth 2".
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
hemlock
yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 46
Description: Image taken at coordinates 90-24; direction N50E; distance 141ft; with a bearing of N14W; snow depth 2".
Date: 11/25/1958

Image taken at coordinates 88-24; direction N80E; distance 83 ft; with a bearing of N27E; snow depth 2".
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 46
Description: Image taken at coordinates 88-24; direction N80E; distance 83 ft; with a bearing of N27E; snow depth 2".
Date: 11/25/1958

Image taken at coordinates 91-26; direction Due West; distance 98 ft; with a bearing of N76W. Snow depth 2".
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
hardwood
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 46
Description: Image taken at coordinates 91-26; direction Due West; distance 98 ft; with a bearing of N76W. Snow depth 2".
Date: 11/25/1958

Residual stand photo of location in photo 418 (PSEF_MU53_165). Taken facing N87E 1.42 chains N54E of stake 79-23. Northern hardwood forest with pole size yellow birch, only major change is poisoned cull hardwood.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
Organisms: yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53
Description: Residual stand photo of location in photo 418 (PSEF_MU53_165). Taken facing N87E 1.42 chains N54E of stake 79-23. Northern hardwood forest with pole size yellow birch, only major change is poisoned cull hardwood.
Date: 11/13/1958

Residual stand photo of location in photo 415 (PSEF_MU53_164). Taken facing S65W 0.96 chains S78W of stake 78-22. Northern hardwood forest with pole size yellow birch.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
hardwood
Organisms: yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53
Description: Residual stand photo of location in photo 415 (PSEF_MU53_164). Taken facing S65W 0.96 chains S78W of stake 78-22. Northern hardwood forest with pole size yellow birch.
Date: 11/13/1958

Spruce-hardwood residual stand photo, same view as photo 221.2-416. Taken facing S30W 0.68 chains S68W of stake 79-22.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53
Description: Spruce-hardwood residual stand photo, same view as photo 221.2-416. Taken facing S30W 0.68 chains S68W of stake 79-22.
Date: 11/13/1958

Spruce-hardwood residual stand photo, same view as photo PSEF_MU53_166. Taken facing N35E 1.37 chains S35E of stake 78-23.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53
Description: Spruce-hardwood residual stand photo, same view as photo PSEF_MU53_166. Taken facing N35E 1.37 chains S35E of stake 78-23.
Date: 11/13/1958

Northern hardwood residual stand photo. Taken at stake 74-20 facing N40W.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
hardwood
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53
Description: Northern hardwood residual stand photo. Taken at stake 74-20 facing N40W.
Date: 11/13/1958

Deadman Expt. burn
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Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Keywords: personnel
period attire
range
Location: Coconino NF; AZ; USA
Description: Deadman Expt. burn
Date: 08/1958

Balsam woolly aphid (adelgid) stem attack classified as heavy, on June 3 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
damage
Organisms: balsam fir
balsam woolly adelgid
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam woolly aphid (adelgid) stem attack classified as heavy, on June 3 1958
Date: 6/3/1958

Balsam woolly aphid (adelgid) stem attack, on June 3 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
damage
Organisms: balsam fir
balsam woolly adelgid
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam woolly aphid (adelgid) stem attack, on June 3 1958
Date: 6/3/1958

Balsam woolly aphid (adelgid) stem attack, on June 3 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
damage
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam woolly aphid (adelgid) stem attack, on June 3 1958
Date: 6/3/1958

Dense second-growth balsam fir (image used in silvics paper), in June 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Dense second-growth balsam fir (image used in silvics paper), in June 1958
Date: Jun-58

Arthur Hart in a second-growth balsam fir stand, balsam fir regeneration by building, in June 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
regeneration
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Arthur Hart in a second-growth balsam fir stand, balsam fir regeneration by building, in June 1958
Date: Jun-58

Hybrid white spruce planting with vehicle in the background, on April 25, 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: EP2
Hybrid Spruce Provenance Study
planting
personnel
vehicle
Organisms: white spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Hybrid white spruce planting with vehicle in the background, on April 25, 1958
Date: 4/25/1958

Person walking down the main road (Harper Drive) at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in March 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: road
personnel
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Person walking down the main road (Harper Drive) at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in March 1958
Date: Mar-58

Harper Drive (Government Road) in February 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
road
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Harper Drive (Government Road) in February 1958
Date: Feb-58


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Collection: RMRS Archive Images
Keywords: personnel
aircraft
Location: Leveta; CO; United States
Description: Kramer G.B. tent cat. N-3-N
Date: 6/13/1957

Overstory of yellow birch, hard maple is being crowded out by beech in both overstory and ground cover. Note large dead birch directly beside me. Most of the few spruce are being suppressed by the beech. Initial stand photo taken facing N5E from a point 0.71 chains S36W of stake 88-22. Shafer in photo
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
Organisms: beech
maple
yellow birch
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48
Description: Overstory of yellow birch, hard maple is being crowded out by beech in both overstory and ground cover. Note large dead birch directly beside me. Most of the few spruce are being suppressed by the beech. Initial stand photo taken facing N5E from a point 0.71 chains S36W of stake 88-22. Shafer in photo
Date: 4/19/1957

Shafer in picture. Photo points up stagnated condition of pole size fir and spruce which has closed canopy completely; small hemlock are being crowded or suppressed in understory. There is little to no ground cover and note the fallen softwood at the foot of the figure, mortality apparently due to excessive suppression. Taken facing S20W from a point 0.6 chains S45E of stake 87-17.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
softwood
suppression
Organisms: spruce
hemlock
fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 47
Description: Shafer in picture. Photo points up stagnated condition of pole size fir and spruce which has closed canopy completely; small hemlock are being crowded or suppressed in understory. There is little to no ground cover and note the fallen softwood at the foot of the figure, mortality apparently due to excessive suppression. Taken facing S20W from a point 0.6 chains S45E of stake 87-17.
Date: 4/10/1957

Balsam fir regeneration in opening east of swamp on Harper Drive in April 1957
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
regeneration
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam fir regeneration in opening east of swamp on Harper Drive in April 1957
Date: Apr-57

Northern hardwood forest residual stand photo of initial stand photo 326. Taken facing N45E 0.39 chains S24E from stake 79-17. Hardly any change from original stand condition photo.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
hardwood
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49
Description: Northern hardwood forest residual stand photo of initial stand photo 326. Taken facing N45E 0.39 chains S24E from stake 79-17. Hardly any change from original stand condition photo.
Date: 3/26/1957

Spruce-yellow birch forest residual stand photo of initial stand photo 327. Taken facing N45W 0.25 chains S70W from stake 78-17. Same photo area as number 327 May 1956 before cutting. Snow depth 3-4 inches.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
Organisms: yellow birch
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49
Description: Spruce-yellow birch forest residual stand photo of initial stand photo 327. Taken facing N45W 0.25 chains S70W from stake 78-17. Same photo area as number 327 May 1956 before cutting. Snow depth 3-4 inches.
Date: 3/26/1957

Northern hardwood residual stand photo of same area seen in photo 323 which was taken after poisoning but before cutting. This photo was taken facing N45W from 0.2 chains due north of stake 77-18. The poisoned trees are very evident but there is not much cutting pictured.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
hardwood
Organisms: yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49
Description: Northern hardwood residual stand photo of same area seen in photo 323 which was taken after poisoning but before cutting. This photo was taken facing N45W from 0.2 chains due north of stake 77-18. The poisoned trees are very evident but there is not much cutting pictured.
Date: 3/26/1957

Northern hardwood stand photo taken facing N10W from 0.27 chains S47E of stake 77-18. No initial stand photo of this picture. 4 ft high maple stumps cut as the result of a sugar bush; this type of cutting is prominant along the eastern area of compartment 49.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
stump
personnel
hardwood
Organisms: sugar maple
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49
Description: Northern hardwood stand photo taken facing N10W from 0.27 chains S47E of stake 77-18. No initial stand photo of this picture. 4 ft high maple stumps cut as the result of a sugar bush; this type of cutting is prominant along the eastern area of compartment 49.
Date: 3/26/1957

Spruce forest initial stand photo. A. Misura standing by large white pine. Crown closure more pronounced, reproduction of spruce and fir averaging 4 to 5 feet high. Reproduction is very abundant. Taken facing N40W 1.69 chains N62E of stake 69-21. Snow depth 6-9 inches.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
regeneration
Organisms: white pine
spruce
fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 54
Description: Spruce forest initial stand photo. A. Misura standing by large white pine. Crown closure more pronounced, reproduction of spruce and fir averaging 4 to 5 feet high. Reproduction is very abundant. Taken facing N40W 1.69 chains N62E of stake 69-21. Snow depth 6-9 inches.
Date: 3/25/1957

Northern hardwood initial stand poto. Taken from stake 77-22 facing S40E. Snow depth at this location is 6 inches. No residual stand photo taken because there is no change at this station.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
hardwood
personnel
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53
Description: Northern hardwood initial stand poto. Taken from stake 77-22 facing S40E. Snow depth at this location is 6 inches. No residual stand photo taken because there is no change at this station.
Date: 3/21/1957

Taken due north from stake 81-19. Spruce-hardwood initial stand photo.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: hardwood
personnel
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49
Description: Taken due north from stake 81-19. Spruce-hardwood initial stand photo.
Date: 3/19/1957

Northern hardwood forest residual stand photo of initial stand photo 324. Taken facing N30W 0.1 chains due east from stake 78-19.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
personnel
hardwood
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49
Description: Northern hardwood forest residual stand photo of initial stand photo 324. Taken facing N30W 0.1 chains due east from stake 78-19.
Date: 3/15/1957