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Uprooting
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: damage
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Uprooting
Date: 1950s

Uprooting
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: damage
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Uprooting
Date: 1950s

Windfall can be severe on heavily cut over spruce flats, in pockets where the soil remains wet.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: blowdown
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Windfall can be severe on heavily cut over spruce flats, in pockets where the soil remains wet.
Date: 1950

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.
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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

Stand on spruce flat before cutting.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
pre-harvest
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Stand on spruce flat before cutting.
Date: 1950

After cutting.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
post-harvest
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: After cutting.
Date: 1950

More windfall occurred in very moist pockets.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: blowdown
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: More windfall occurred in very moist pockets.
Date: 1950

27 cords of pulpwood obtained within convenient skidding distance for one horse.
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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

Mature stand on spruce-yellow birch site.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
Organisms: spruce
yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Mature stand on spruce-yellow birch site.
Date: 1950

Fairly heavy cutting about 1900 resulted in a stand of young soft maple and yellow birch. Another sawlog cutting occurred 1 year before this photo was taken.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
Organisms: spruce
yellow birch
maple
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Fairly heavy cutting about 1900 resulted in a stand of young soft maple and yellow birch. Another sawlog cutting occurred 1 year before this photo was taken.
Date: 1950

Mixed-conifer stand containing large spruce.
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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

Cutover spruce-yellow birch. Big softwoods cut about 1850 and 1908; few other large trees cut in 1950.
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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

Aspen-fire cherry and some spruce returning to a softwood site severely burned more than 30 years ago.
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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

Large white pines occupied the overstory here about 40 years ago.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
Organisms: white pines
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Large white pines occupied the overstory here about 40 years ago.
Date: 1950

On the spruce-yellow birch site, red maple reproduction quickly takes advantage of large openings.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: reproduction
gap
Organisms: spruce
yellow birch
red maple
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: On the spruce-yellow birch site, red maple reproduction quickly takes advantage of large openings.
Date: 1950

Cutting helped open this dense stand of small spruce.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: slash
gap
post-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Cutting helped open this dense stand of small spruce.
Date: 1950

After cutting.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
post-harvest
slash
Organisms: spruce
birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: After cutting.
Date: 1950

Image taken at coordinates 90-22, direction S80, distance 11 ft; with a bearing of S58W. Background is spruce and fir.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
yellow birch
fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 45
Description: Image taken at coordinates 90-22, direction S80, distance 11 ft; with a bearing of S58W. Background is spruce and fir.
Date: 1950

Image taken at coordinates 90-21; direction S80; distance 39 feet; with a bearing of N2W. Beech sapling and spruce reproduction in the understory.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
Organisms: spruce
yellow birch
beech
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 45
Description: Image taken at coordinates 90-21; direction S80; distance 39 feet; with a bearing of N2W. Beech sapling and spruce reproduction in the understory.
Date: 1950

Image taken at coordinates 91-20; direction due south; distance 42 ft; with a bearing of N18E.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
personnel
transition
Organisms: spruce
yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 45
Description: Image taken at coordinates 91-20; direction due south; distance 42 ft; with a bearing of N18E.
Date: 1950