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Improvement Selection Cutting

imageID: 21831
Description: Improvement Selection Cutting
Keywords: Improvement
sample plot
selective cutting
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Photographer: G. A. Pearson
Original collection id: 433046
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Date(mm/yyyy): 10/1944
Comments: Coconino Sample Plot S3; A group of blackjack on Sample Plot S3 after 2nd cutting. The two tall trees in foreground are both Class IIB. Before 2nd cutting the one at left (#3504) grew 1.7 inches in 10 yrs and the at right (#3505) grew 1.9 inches. During same decade a 25 inch wolf tree beside #3505 grew 1.2 inches. In 1939 the wolf tree was cut. During 5 yrs after cutting #3505 grew 2.0" and #3504 grew 1.2". Group 16.
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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