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This movie on the need for and science behind direct seeding was produced in the early 1960s to highlight the role of research in addressing management questions.  This movie featured the work of scientists and supporting staff at the Alexandria Forestry Center in Pineville, Louisiana, and focused on longleaf pine restoration efforts. <p><i>The file provided via the download button below is the same file playing on this page. If you have trouble with the sound for that file, please try downloading the .wmv file provided via the 'original format' field.</i></p>
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: direct seeding
artificial pine regeneration
plantations
birds
chemicals
Organisms: longleaf pine
Location: Pineville; central Louisiana; Alexandria Forestry Center; Kisatchie National Forest
Description: This movie on the need for and science behind direct seeding was produced in the early 1960s to highlight the role of research in addressing management questions. This movie featured the work of scientists and supporting staff at the Alexandria Forestry Center in Pineville, Louisiana, and focused on longleaf pine restoration efforts. <p><i>The file provided via the download button below is the same file playing on this page. If you have trouble with the sound for that file, please try downloading the .wmv file provided via the 'original format' field.</i></p>
Date: 1963

Caption reads:  "An outstanding longleaf x slash pine hybrid developed at Crossett.  Seedlings started height growth the first year and were nine feet high in four years."  Man in photo may be Hoy Grigsby.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: experimental forest
tree improvement
hybrid
Organisms: longleaf pine
slash pine
Location: Crossett Experimental Forest; Ashley County; Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "An outstanding longleaf x slash pine hybrid developed at Crossett. Seedlings started height growth the first year and were nine feet high in four years." Man in photo may be Hoy Grigsby.
Date: 1950s

Map of the Greeley Pasture, part of the Urania Lumber Company's land in central Louisiana that was provided to the Southern Forest Experiment Station for various research projects.  Map originally produced by 1926 Yale Forestry School students; updated with study locations in 1929.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: map
Yale Forest School
Organisms: longleaf pine
loblolly pine
shortleaf pine
Location: Winn Parish; Urania, LA
Description: Map of the Greeley Pasture, part of the Urania Lumber Company's land in central Louisiana that was provided to the Southern Forest Experiment Station for various research projects. Map originally produced by 1926 Yale Forestry School students; updated with study locations in 1929.
Date: 1929

Caption reads: "Second-growth loblolly pine 25 years old thinned heavily in May 1924. German grade "E" thinning Mt 111 (Urania) in Deer Pasture near Urania. Originally longleaf land which seeded into loblolly. Thinned to about 130 trees per acre which should carry the stand through maturity or 20 years from time of thinning. The slash from thinnings has almost entirely disappeared. Photo station SE corner of plot looking NW." Plot #50.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
German
Organisms: loblolly pine
longleaf pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Second-growth loblolly pine 25 years old thinned heavily in May 1924. German grade "E" thinning Mt 111 (Urania) in Deer Pasture near Urania. Originally longleaf land which seeded into loblolly. Thinned to about 130 trees per acre which should carry the stand through maturity or 20 years from time of thinning. The slash from thinnings has almost entirely disappeared. Photo station SE corner of plot looking NW." Plot #50.
Date: 8/10/1926