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porcupine damage

imageID: 27153
Description: porcupine damage
Keywords: animal damage
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Photographer: C.L. Forsling
Original collection id: 48697
Media: black and white print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
People: unidentified
Location: Coconino NF; AZ; USA
Date(yyyy): 1920
Comments: A seedling girdles(sic) by a porcupine. Porcupines often do damage causing the low bushy appearance of seedlings that is usually attributed to sheep. IN: Sheep Damage to Reproduction of Western Yellow Pine by C.L. Forsling, 1920.
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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