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Ponderosa Pine After Logging

imageID: 21612
Description: Ponderosa Pine After Logging
Keywords: logging
damage
sample plot
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Photographer: Frank H. Wadsworth
Original collection id: 416135
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Date(mm/yyyy): 11/1941
Comments: Coconino Sample Plot S3; A 17 inch, class 4C ponderosa pine 30 yrs after logging. Piror to the cut this tree was in the middle of a dense group of 16 trees, the area being stocked at the rate of more than 23,000 board feet per acre. Not the numerous stumps about its base. The bruise on the bole is evidently a result of logging. Tree #3927. diameter growth 2"/decade. Wing Mtn. plot.
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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