| imageID: | 21714 |
| Description: | Cutting Method of Favoring Dominants |
| Keywords: | sample plot selective cutting |
| Organisms: | ponderosa pine |
| Photographer: | G. A. Pearson |
| Original collection id: | 423328 |
| Media: | Black & White Print |
| Collection: | Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs |
| Quality: | 3 |
| Location: | Fort Valley Exp. Station; AZ; USA |
| Date(mm/yyyy): | 08/1942 |
| Comments: | Coconino Sample Plot S3; Group 1a, Sample Plot S3. Photo after cutting, from west, showing limby character of the boles, two of which are 27 & 28 inches dbh. Logging in 1939 under method of favoring dominants. Near view of #3620, now 27.8" dbh, class 3C. This tree obviously was in Class 3A in the relatively recent past. Cutting is experimental to ascertain whether trees of this class will accelerate in growth after removing smaller neighbors. Diameter growth last decade 0.5 inch. |
| 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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