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Spruce-fir forest initial stand photo. Also large scattered white pine and hemlock. Reproduction is spruce and fir, background is a mixed conifer swamp. Taken facing S55W 1.12 chains due east from stake 72-18. snow depth 6-9 inches.

imageID: 36904
Description: Spruce-fir forest initial stand photo. Also large scattered white pine and hemlock. Reproduction is spruce and fir, background is a mixed conifer swamp. Taken facing S55W 1.12 chains due east from stake 72-18. snow depth 6-9 inches.
Keywords: pre-harvest
swamp
Organisms: white pine
spruce
fir
hemlock
Photographer: Shafer
Original collection id: PSEF 426; 221.2-426
Media: Verichrome, shutter speed 1/30, opening F: 29
Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Quality: 4
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 54
Date(mm/dd/yyyy): 3/25/1957
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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