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Second growth northern hardwoods which followed a 100% clearcutting 50 years earlier. The Fernow area near Tupper Lake, N.Y. Area clearcut about 1900 to prepare it for a softwood planting which never was completed.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
hardwood
post-harvest
clearcut
Organisms: yellow birch
Location: Fernow area
Description: Second growth northern hardwoods which followed a 100% clearcutting 50 years earlier. The Fernow area near Tupper Lake, N.Y. Area clearcut about 1900 to prepare it for a softwood planting which never was completed.
Date: 1950

Clearcut in 1937. Deer suppressed hardwoods until exclosure was put up 10 years later. With protection, white ash and yellow birch are growing; none this large are found outside the exclosure.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
clearcut
browse
hardwood
Organisms: deer
yellow birch
white ash
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Clearcut in 1937. Deer suppressed hardwoods until exclosure was put up 10 years later. With protection, white ash and yellow birch are growing; none this large are found outside the exclosure.
Date: 1950

Clearcut 18 years earlier, deer browsing has eliminated most yellow birch, white ash, and hard maple seedling. Less-palatable beech and red spruce continued to grow.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
clearcut
browse
Organisms: deer
yellow birch
white ash
maple
beech
red spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Clearcut 18 years earlier, deer browsing has eliminated most yellow birch, white ash, and hard maple seedling. Less-palatable beech and red spruce continued to grow.
Date: 1950