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rodent damage to reproduction

imageID: 27156
Description: rodent damage to reproduction
Keywords: animal damage
reproduction
Organisms: ponderosa pine
Photographer: C.L. Forsling
Original collection id: 48718
Media: black and white print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Location: Coconino NF; AZ; USA
Date(yyyy): 1920
Comments: Ordinarily this damage would be attributed to sheep, which would be wrong in this case. These seedlings are within a woven wire fence enclosure where sheep have not grazed for 8 years, and in this case the damage is due to some rodent. 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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