| imageID: | 36792 |
| Description: | Shafer in picture. Photo points up stagnated condition of pole size fir and spruce which has closed canopy completely; small hemlock are being crowded or suppressed in understory. There is little to no ground cover and note the fallen softwood at the foot of the figure, mortality apparently due to excessive suppression. Taken facing S20W from a point 0.6 chains S45E of stake 87-17. |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest personnel softwood suppression |
| Organisms: | spruce hemlock fir |
| Photographer: | G. Lavoy |
| Original collection id: | PSEF 445 |
| Media: | Verichrome |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Quality: | 3 |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 47 |
| Date(mm/dd/yyyy): | 4/10/1957 |
| Citation: | Use of this image is governed by Creative Commons CC BY. If you use the image, please include the following citation: Roach, Skylar K.; Buchanan, Anna G.; Kenefic, Laura S. 2025. Paul Smith Experimental Forest historical photo archive. 2025. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2025-0034 |
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