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Improvement Selection Cutting

imageID: 21791
Description: Improvement Selection Cutting
Keywords: sample plot
selective cutting
Organisms: ponderosa pine
mistletoe
Photographer: G. A. Pearson
Original collection id: 428000
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Date(mm/yyyy): 10/1943
Comments: Coconino Sample Plot S3; Two blackjacks isolated by cutting mistletoe group. Left: #2713 IIC, dbh 15"; growth decade 1929-39; growth 4 yrs 1940-43 since cutting, 1.4"; height 70 ft, clear length 25 ft. Right tree: #2703, dbh 19", Class IIIB, growth decade before cutting, 0.9"; growth 4 yrs since cutting 0.7". S3.
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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