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Improvement Selection Cutting

imageID: 21832
Description: Improvement Selection Cutting
Keywords: animal damage
Improvement
sample plot
selective cutting
Photographer: G. A. Pearson
Original collection id: 433047
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; Group 17B, Sample Plot S3. At right a clump of overtopped trees released by cutting a limby 25" dominant. All of the smaller trees were once damages by porcupines. The one with dead spike(#3877) Class IID has a clear butt log and has grown 1" in diameter in the 5 yrs since release. The largest bole at extreme left was also released has grown 1.9 inches in 5 yrs.
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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