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Ponderosa Pine Showing Development

imageID: 21617
Description: Ponderosa Pine Showing Development
Keywords: Improvement
sample plot
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Photographer: Frank H. Wadsworth
Original collection id: 416138
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 15 inch, class 3D ponderosa pine showing the development of crown following release. The outer, finer branches, developed since release, surround gnarled limbs in the central portion of the crown. During the 30 yrs since release the diameter growth of this tree has averaged 2.1"/decade. Tree # 5625, Wing Mt. 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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