| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest road log deck equipment swamp |
| Organisms: | black spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Black spruce swamp in compt. 25. G. Fountain breaking swamp road with TD-6 bulldozer |
| Date: | 1952 |
| 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 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck harvest personnel |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Large cuts of softwoods in mixedwood stands, and light cutting for hardwoods, can convert some stands to hardwoods. "Is it desirable or undesirable? Will residual hardwoods make satisfactory growth? Will they be sound upon reaching merchantable size? Can the land owner afford to do anything different than this?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| 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 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | harvest |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Not all of the old white pines were sound. This one was 50% cull. |
| 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: |
harvest equipment road personnel |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 52 |
| Description: | Image showing a skidder pulling cut trees out of forest. |
| Date: | 1950 |