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Effect of forest on the melting of snow

imageID: 18947
Description: Effect of forest on the melting of snow
Keywords: snow
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Photographer: Max H. Foerster
Original collection id: 092578
Media: black and white print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Copyright: 1911
Location: Fort Valley Experimental Forest; AZ; United States
Date(mm/dd/yyyy): 03/27/1911
Comments: Effect of forest on the melting of snow. Drifts of snow pile up in the small opening between tree groups, and due partly to their depth and partly to the shade, they usually remain from one to two weeks after all snow has disappeared from open situations. Western Yellow pine. Early spring. Drift of snow is forest 6 inches deep-all gone in open. (Used in Foerster, 1911.)
Citation: Use of this image is governed by Creative Commons CC BY. If you use the image, please include the following citation:

Olberding, Susan D.; Huebner, Daniel P.; Edminster, Carleton B. 2007. Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2007-0005


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