| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck pulpwood |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29 |
| Description: | Pulpwood cut on CPL plots. |
| Date: | 8/1/1950 |
| 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: |
shelterwood log deck slash |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | There was less exposure where windfall had not occured prior to cutting. This shelterwood can be cut in 10-15 years. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| 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 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck pulpwood horse skidding |
| Organisms: |
yellow birch spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | 27 cords of pulpwood obtained within convenient skidding distance for one horse. |
| 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 |