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No initial stand photo taken of this shot. Clearing in foreground was main logging deck for the tree-length hardwoods. Quality of yellow birch in background is very good. Taken facing N10W from stake 75-17.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
log deck
hardwood
Organisms: yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 51
Description: No initial stand photo taken of this shot. Clearing in foreground was main logging deck for the tree-length hardwoods. Quality of yellow birch in background is very good. Taken facing N10W from stake 75-17.
Date: 5/9/1959

Taken east at approximate location shown on map in compartment journal. After 1956 cutting on east edge of the 1954 area of heavy blowdown. Large stump is from 1900 softwood cut.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
log deck
stump
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 4
Description: Taken east at approximate location shown on map in compartment journal. After 1956 cutting on east edge of the 1954 area of heavy blowdown. Large stump is from 1900 softwood cut.
Date: 10/5/1956

Taken south at approximate location shown on map in compartment journal. Outside the area of heavy blowdown, cutting consisted of removal of individual large fir, leaving a fairly dense stand of 6"-10" fir after cutting.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
log deck
Organisms: fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 4
Description: Taken south at approximate location shown on map in compartment journal. Outside the area of heavy blowdown, cutting consisted of removal of individual large fir, leaving a fairly dense stand of 6"-10" fir after cutting.
Date: 10/5/1956

Taken S70E from a point N03E 0.36 chains from stake 67-24.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: road
log deck
harvest
Organisms: fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 18
Description: Taken S70E from a point N03E 0.36 chains from stake 67-24.
Date: 5/7/1956

Specific location unknown. An estimated 27.5 cords of pulpwood cut from Northeast knoll of compartment 52. Aboout 98% of the pulpwood is spruce. Compartment 49 is in the background; note heavily poisoned area.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
harvest
pulpwood
Organisms: spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 52
Description: Specific location unknown. An estimated 27.5 cords of pulpwood cut from Northeast knoll of compartment 52. Aboout 98% of the pulpwood is spruce. Compartment 49 is in the background; note heavily poisoned area.
Date: 3/27/1956

Bert and Ernest Sussice decking white pine logs. Initial cut to establish a shelterwood for reproduction.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
shelterwood
harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Bert and Ernest Sussice decking white pine logs. Initial cut to establish a shelterwood for reproduction.
Date: 10/23/1953

G. Cramer and D. Horner piling pulpwood in the woods.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
personnel
horse skidding
pulpwood
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: G. Cramer and D. Horner piling pulpwood in the woods.
Date: 2/13/1953

Donald Horner bucking skidded pulpwood at the landing. Using chainsaw. Residual stand in the background.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
personnel
pulpwood
equipment
chainsaw
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35
Description: Donald Horner bucking skidded pulpwood at the landing. Using chainsaw. Residual stand in the background.
Date: 2/13/1953

Piled pulpwood cut from compt. 25. Stand has been cut for sawlogs and spruce and fir pulpwood. Some hemlock remains along with defective yellow birch and soft maple. Much of this wood is quite defective even though it is small. Rev. Frank A. Reed in photo.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
personnel
pulpwood
Organisms: spruce
fir
yellow birch
maple
hemlock
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Piled pulpwood cut from compt. 25. Stand has been cut for sawlogs and spruce and fir pulpwood. Some hemlock remains along with defective yellow birch and soft maple. Much of this wood is quite defective even though it is small. Rev. Frank A. Reed in photo.
Date: 2/12/1953

Bucking pulpwood at the landing on comp 35. Shows chainsaw in use; also horse and harness used for skidding.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
harvest
personnel
horse skidding
pulpwood
equipment
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35
Description: Bucking pulpwood at the landing on comp 35. Shows chainsaw in use; also horse and harness used for skidding.
Date: 2/1/1953

S. Monette and D. Horner piling pulpwood in the woods. Stand visible in background.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
personnel
Organisms: yellow birch
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35
Description: S. Monette and D. Horner piling pulpwood in the woods. Stand visible in background.
Date: 1/12/1953

Piled pulpwood cut from comp. 35. Residual stand visible in background.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
pulpwood
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35
Description: Piled pulpwood cut from comp. 35. Residual stand visible in background.
Date: 1/4/1953

Stump-piled wood in black spruce swamp. In background, only the sawtimber has been cut on the higher ground.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
sawtimber
swamp
Organisms: black spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Stump-piled wood in black spruce swamp. In background, only the sawtimber has been cut on the higher ground.
Date: 12/1/1952

Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut. Horses owned by G. Fountain and used for skidding. Log loader and logs in foreground, at landing.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
log deck
horse skidding
equipment
personnel
Organisms: birch
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut. Horses owned by G. Fountain and used for skidding. Log loader and logs in foreground, at landing.
Date: 10/1/1952

Black spruce swamp in compt. 25. G. Fountain breaking swamp road with TD-6 bulldozer
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: harvest
road
log deck
equipment
swamp
Organisms: black spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25
Description: Black spruce swamp in compt. 25. G. Fountain breaking swamp road with TD-6 bulldozer
Date: 1952

Pulpwood cut on CPL plots.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
pulpwood
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: Pulpwood cut on CPL plots.
Date: 8/1/1950

After a stand of large pines were cut about 1900, understory balsam fir and spruce developed to pulpwood size. Only a few pines originated after the cutting in 1900, because spruce and fir already occupied the site.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
harvest
log deck
stump
Organisms: white pine
balsam fir
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: After a stand of large pines were cut about 1900, understory balsam fir and spruce developed to pulpwood size. Only a few pines originated after the cutting in 1900, because spruce and fir already occupied the site.
Date: 1950

Large cuts of softwoods in mixedwood stands, and light cutting for hardwoods, can convert some stands to hardwoods. "Is it desirable or undesirable? Will residual hardwoods make satisfactory growth? Will they be sound upon reaching merchantable size? Can the land owner afford to do anything different than this?"
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
harvest
personnel
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Large cuts of softwoods in mixedwood stands, and light cutting for hardwoods, can convert some stands to hardwoods. "Is it desirable or undesirable? Will residual hardwoods make satisfactory growth? Will they be sound upon reaching merchantable size? Can the land owner afford to do anything different than this?"
Date: 1950

There was less exposure where windfall had not occured prior to cutting. This shelterwood can be cut in 10-15 years.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: shelterwood
log deck
slash
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: There was less exposure where windfall had not occured prior to cutting. This shelterwood can be cut in 10-15 years.
Date: 1950

Later in winter the black spruce swamp froze enough to remove the wood. Tractor is packing a sled road.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
equipment
log deck
road
swamp
Organisms: black spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Later in winter the black spruce swamp froze enough to remove the wood. Tractor is packing a sled road.
Date: 1950