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Cutting Method of Favoring Dominants

imageID: 21939
Description: Cutting Method of Favoring Dominants
Keywords: Improvement
sample plot
selective cutting
Photographer: G. A. Pearson
Original collection id: 442717
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Date(mm/yyyy): 09/1946
Comments: Coconino Sample Plot S7; Blackjack group on Coconino Permanent Sample Plot S7 logged in 1924 and again in 1946. Large, limby tree at left is No. XI. Group of 6 sm stumps in foreground were all cut in 1924 under a practice of favoring dominants. The freshly fell tree is #1777 dbh 22.4" grwoth last 5 yrs 0.4 inch. The two at right are #1799 & #1780, both good trees which grew 0.5 inch during last 5 yrs and are expected to accelerate after cutting several neighbors. Felled tree in background is #1772, dbh 32.6 inches growth last decade 0.6 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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