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Commercial "clearcutting" of all merchantable trees. This is 2 years later. There was not much advance reproduction in this spot.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: slash
gap
clearcut
post-harvest
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Commercial "clearcutting" of all merchantable trees. This is 2 years later. There was not much advance reproduction in this spot.
Date: 1950

A patch of black spruce in a swamp, exceeding 140 years of age, was clearcut and the wood stump piled.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: swamp
clearcut
Organisms: black spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: A patch of black spruce in a swamp, exceeding 140 years of age, was clearcut and the wood stump piled.
Date: 1950

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

Residual and second growth northern hardwoods on a "clearcutting". A large number of beech remain.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
hardwood
post-harvest
clearcut
Organisms: beech
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Residual and second growth northern hardwoods on a "clearcutting". A large number of beech remain.
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 plot. Witch hobble was lightly browsed -- mostly new growth in the spring -- but its growth was not severely retarded.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
clearcut
browse
Organisms: witch hobble
deer
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest
Description: Clearcut plot. Witch hobble was lightly browsed -- mostly new growth in the spring -- but its growth was not severely retarded.
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

Caption reads:  "#2 Watershed, upper section logging road, Jones Creek.  Top intact following logging on clear-cut area.  Taken immediately after logging.  Needles green and persistent.  Extra large top.  Average diameter at cut 25 inches.  Camera Sta. #17."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: clearcut
Location: Jones Creek drainage, Irons Fork Experimental Forest, Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "#2 Watershed, upper section logging road, Jones Creek. Top intact following logging on clear-cut area. Taken immediately after logging. Needles green and persistent. Extra large top. Average diameter at cut 25 inches. Camera Sta. #17."
Date: 4/28/1939

Caption reads:  "#4 Watershed, Jones Creek.  Log yard, clear-cut watershed 10 days after logging.  Note disturbance of ground cover.  Yard completely barren of vegetation.  Camera Sta. #19."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: log deck
clearcut
Location: Jones Creek drainage, Irons Fork Experimental Forest, Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "#4 Watershed, Jones Creek. Log yard, clear-cut watershed 10 days after logging. Note disturbance of ground cover. Yard completely barren of vegetation. Camera Sta. #19."
Date: 4/28/1939

Caption reads:  "#6 Watershed, Jones Creek.  General view in clear-cut watershed #6 before logging.  Note good ground cover: (a) trees, (b) brush, (c) herbs and grass, (d) litter.  Camera Sta. #20."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: clearcut
Location: Jones Creek drainage, Irons Fork Experimental Forest, Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "#6 Watershed, Jones Creek. General view in clear-cut watershed #6 before logging. Note good ground cover: (a) trees, (b) brush, (c) herbs and grass, (d) litter. Camera Sta. #20."
Date: 4/28/1939

Caption reads:  "Divide between #4 and #5 Watersheds, Jones Creek.  General view of clear-cut watershed #4.  Looking west.  Camera Sta. #7."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: clearcut
Location: Jones Creek drainage, Irons Fork Experimental Forest, Arkansas
Description: Caption reads: "Divide between #4 and #5 Watersheds, Jones Creek. General view of clear-cut watershed #4. Looking west. Camera Sta. #7."
Date: 4/11/1939