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A 65 year old stand when chemically thinned in 1962. Trees killed by frilling and poisoning with ammate crystals. Kosciusko Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Kosciusko Island
Description: A 65 year old stand when chemically thinned in 1962. Trees killed by frilling and poisoning with ammate crystals. Kosciusko Island.
Date: 7/1972

Karta Bay, Plot #2, Area 2.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Karta Bay, Plot #2, Area 2.
Date: 1967

Karta Bay, Plot #2, Area 2.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Karta Bay, Plot #2, Area 2.
Date: 1967

Decomp plot. Poison Plot #22, Tree #2. Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp plot. Poison Plot #22, Tree #2. Cat Island.
Date: 8/14/1961

Decomp plot. Poison Plot #22, Tree #4. Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp plot. Poison Plot #22, Tree #4. Cat Island.
Date: 8/14/1961

Decomp plot. Poison Plot #22, Tree #5. Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp plot. Poison Plot #22, Tree #5. Cat Island.
Date: 8/14/1961

Decomp. Plot. Poison Plot #13, Tree #2, Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp. Plot. Poison Plot #13, Tree #2, Cat Island.
Date: 8/14/1961

I.P., Karta Bay mainland plot group. Blazed and scribed in 1950. See neg. No. 385 for photo taken in 1950.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: I.P., Karta Bay mainland plot group. Blazed and scribed in 1950. See neg. No. 385 for photo taken in 1950.
Date: 9/1960

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #10. Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #10. Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10.  Axe girdled. Tree #12 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #12 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10.  Axe girdled. Tree #12 Right Tree #11 left. Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #12 Right Tree #11 left. Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #2 (Poyck) Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #2 (Poyck) Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #2 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #2 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #4 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #4 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #5 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #5 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #6 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #6 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #7 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #7 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #8 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #8 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #9 Cat Island.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomp Study Plot 10. Axe girdled. Tree #9 Cat Island.
Date: 8/1/1957

Dense fast growing w.h. reprod. Beneath closed stand adjacent to windthrow. Karta Bay thinned plots.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Dense fast growing w.h. reprod. Beneath closed stand adjacent to windthrow. Karta Bay thinned plots.
Date: 9/1956

Skowl Arm thinned Plot No. 1.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Skowl Arm
Description: Skowl Arm thinned Plot No. 1.
Date: 8/1956

Decomposition study Cat Island Poison Plot. Plot 22 tree #4 3 yrs., 3 mos subsequent to treatment. Char. same as in pict. #5. Taken from large ced. stump approx. 12' N. (pict. #9).
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomposition study Cat Island Poison Plot. Plot 22 tree #4 3 yrs., 3 mos subsequent to treatment. Char. same as in pict. #5. Taken from large ced. stump approx. 12' N. (pict. #9).
Date: 9/19/1955

Decomposition study Cat Island. Plot 13, tree #2. Poison Plot, 2 yrs, 3 mos subsequent to poisoning. Characteristics same as in pict. #5. Taken from base of tree #3, plot 13 (pict. 6).
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomposition study Cat Island. Plot 13, tree #2. Poison Plot, 2 yrs, 3 mos subsequent to poisoning. Characteristics same as in pict. #5. Taken from base of tree #3, plot 13 (pict. 6).
Date: 9/19/1955

Decomposition study Cat Island. Plot 22, tree #5. Poison Plot, 3 yrs, 3 mos subsequent to treatment. Characteristics same as in pict. #5. Taken from large ced. Stumps described in Pict. #9 (pict. 10).
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomposition study Cat Island. Plot 22, tree #5. Poison Plot, 3 yrs, 3 mos subsequent to treatment. Characteristics same as in pict. #5. Taken from large ced. Stumps described in Pict. #9 (pict. 10).
Date: 9/19/1955

Decomposition study Cat Island. Plot 22, tree #5.  Poison Plot, 3 yrs., 3 mos subsequent to treatment. Char. same as in pict. #5. Taken from approx. 1ch N.E. (pict. #8).
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomposition study Cat Island. Plot 22, tree #5. Poison Plot, 3 yrs., 3 mos subsequent to treatment. Char. same as in pict. #5. Taken from approx. 1ch N.E. (pict. #8).
Date: 9/19/1955

Decomposition study plot 22, tree #2. Cat Island. Poison Plot. 3 yrs, 3 mos subsequent to treatment nearly all branches in lower 1/2 of crown particularly there epicormic in nature, retain live lvs. Lvs. In upper 1/2 crown dead & dropped. Smallest twigs rema...
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Decomposition study plot 22, tree #2. Cat Island. Poison Plot. 3 yrs, 3 mos subsequent to treatment nearly all branches in lower 1/2 of crown particularly there epicormic in nature, retain live lvs. Lvs. In upper 1/2 crown dead & dropped. Smallest twigs rema...
Date: 9/19/1955

Applying ammate to cull hemlock, 1952 Cat Is. Poison plots. Trees blazed are typical "culls" H.E. Andersen in photo.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska; Cat Island
Description: Applying ammate to cull hemlock, 1952 Cat Is. Poison plots. Trees blazed are typical "culls" H.E. Andersen in photo.
Date: 6/1952

Close up of cull cedar (WRC) being poisoned. Note large dead catface. Chopped "cups" for ammate.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska
Description: Close up of cull cedar (WRC) being poisoned. Note large dead catface. Chopped "cups" for ammate.
Date: 6/1952

Cull cedar showing typical cull cedar and "cups" used in poisoning.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
opening of the canopy (increment fellings, overhead release and improvement fellings)
girdling and poisoning
Location: Alaska
Description: Cull cedar showing typical cull cedar and "cups" used in poisoning.
Date: 6/1952

21- year old blaze made by R.F. Taylor in 1929. Shown opened on neg. no. 383. 26" spruce.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska
Description: 21- year old blaze made by R.F. Taylor in 1929. Shown opened on neg. no. 383. 26" spruce.
Date: 8/1950

21- year old blaze on western hemlock 11" dbh. Plot 1, area 1, Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: 21- year old blaze on western hemlock 11" dbh. Plot 1, area 1, Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

30-inch cull spruce girdled on plot 3, area 1. (J. Klein) Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: 30-inch cull spruce girdled on plot 3, area 1. (J. Klein) Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

Chain saw used by J. Klein in thinning work, Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Chain saw used by J. Klein in thinning work, Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

Corner post plot 1, area 2 corner 4. Stake is still standing but shows deterioration, espl at ground line. Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Corner post plot 1, area 2 corner 4. Stake is still standing but shows deterioration, espl at ground line. Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

Crown before thinning plot 1, area 1, Karta Bay. See neg. no. 376 for view after thinning. This is same camera point as neg. 357.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown before thinning plot 1, area 1, Karta Bay. See neg. no. 376 for view after thinning. This is same camera point as neg. 357.
Date: 8/1950

Crown before thinning plot 1, area 1. Crown competition had reduced crown ratio below optimum. Karta Bay. Same camera point as neg. no. 355.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown before thinning plot 1, area 1. Crown competition had reduced crown ratio below optimum. Karta Bay. Same camera point as neg. no. 355.
Date: 8/1950

Crown condition plot 2, area 1. Same camera point as neg. 369.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown condition plot 2, area 1. Same camera point as neg. 369.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density after thinning plot 1, area 1, Karta Bay. Same camera point as 377. See neg. 358 for crown view before thinning.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density after thinning plot 1, area 1, Karta Bay. Same camera point as 377. See neg. 358 for crown view before thinning.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density after thinning plot 1, area 1, to 120 trees per acre. Same camera point as neg. no. 379. About 1/2 of the stems were removed. See neg. 356.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density after thinning plot 1, area 1, to 120 trees per acre. Same camera point as neg. no. 379. About 1/2 of the stems were removed. See neg. 356.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density plot 1, area 1 before thinning. Same as camera point neg. 359. See neg. no. 374 for view after thinning. Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density plot 1, area 1 before thinning. Same as camera point neg. 359. See neg. no. 374 for view after thinning. Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density plot 2, area 1. Same camera point as neg. 368. Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density plot 2, area 1. Same camera point as neg. 368. Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density plot 3, area 1, after thinning to 67% b.a. Noticeable crown release. Thinning to 2/3 b.a. left 54 more trees per acre than on adjacent plot thinned to 120 trees.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density plot 3, area 1, after thinning to 67% b.a. Noticeable crown release. Thinning to 2/3 b.a. left 54 more trees per acre than on adjacent plot thinned to 120 trees.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density plot 3, area 1, after thinning. Almost half the trees were removed freeing the residuals on at least 2 sides.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density plot 3, area 1, after thinning. Almost half the trees were removed freeing the residuals on at least 2 sides.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density plot 3, area 1, before thinning. Very few trees received light on more than 2 sides of their crowns.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density plot 3, area 1, before thinning. Very few trees received light on more than 2 sides of their crowns.
Date: 8/1950

Crown density plot e, area 1, before thinning. Competition resulted in below optimum crown ratios & poor lateral crown development.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Crown density plot e, area 1, before thinning. Competition resulted in below optimum crown ratios & poor lateral crown development.
Date: 8/1950

Density of plot 3 area 1 after thinning to 67% b.a. (L. Zach in photo).
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Density of plot 3 area 1 after thinning to 67% b.a. (L. Zach in photo).
Date: 8/1950

Incipient decay showing at butt of a 10.4" hemlock cut during thinning. Plot 1, area 2. Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Incipient decay showing at butt of a 10.4" hemlock cut during thinning. Plot 1, area 2. Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

J. Klein making tree tags on deck of Ranger 6. Residual trees on thinned plots and selected crop trees on control plots were tagged. Karta Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: J. Klein making tree tags on deck of Ranger 6. Residual trees on thinned plots and selected crop trees on control plots were tagged. Karta Bay.
Date: 8/1950

Large fluted hemlock axe-girdled. On plot 3, area 1. Karta Bay. (L. Zach).
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Large fluted hemlock axe-girdled. On plot 3, area 1. Karta Bay. (L. Zach).
Date: 8/1950

Larry Zach holding branch of western hemlock felled 2 years before. Very few needles but most fine branches remain.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: regeneration and formation of stands
tending of stands and trees
thinnings
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Karta Bay
Description: Larry Zach holding branch of western hemlock felled 2 years before. Very few needles but most fine branches remain.
Date: 8/1950