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"Row Spacing Only, Unfertilized" sign, 5.5 growing seasons after precommercial thinning in plot 21, in Study 58 on March 29 1982
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Row Spacing Only, Unfertilized" sign, 5.5 growing seasons after precommercial thinning in plot 21, in Study 58 on March 29 1982
Date: 3/29/1982

"Row Spacing Only, Unfertilized" sign, 5.5 growing seasons after precommercial thinning in plot 23, in Study 58 on March 29 1982
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU58
thinning
sign
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Row Spacing Only, Unfertilized" sign, 5.5 growing seasons after precommercial thinning in plot 23, in Study 58 on March 29 1982
Date: 3/29/1982

Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), in MU33 in June 1979
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
shelterwood system
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), in MU33 in June 1979
Date: Jun-79

Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), Dan Keddell conducting inventory, in MU33 in June 1979
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
shelterwood system
personnel
plot
regeneration
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), Dan Keddell conducting inventory, in MU33 in June 1979
Date: Jun-79

Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), in MU33 in June 1979
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
shelterwood system
plot
regeneration
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), in MU33 in June 1979
Date: Jun-79

Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), in MU33 in June 1979
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
shelterwood system
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration plots starting from east line (BU, BV), in MU33 in June 1979
Date: Jun-79

Regeneration plots (DI, DJ), looking west from plot center, in MU33 in June 1979
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
shelterwood system
regeneration
personnel
plot
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration plots (DI, DJ), looking west from plot center, in MU33 in June 1979
Date: Jun-79

Seed trap, regeneration plots starting from east side (BU, BV) in strip clearcut in Biomass Harvesting Study, in MU33 in 1979
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Seed trap, regeneration plots starting from east side (BU, BV) in strip clearcut in Biomass Harvesting Study, in MU33 in 1979
Date: Jun-79

Sunlight on the edge of a strip clearcut in the Biomass Harvesting Study, metal seed trap on bottom left of image, in MU33 on June 23 1970
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Sunlight on the edge of a strip clearcut in the Biomass Harvesting Study, metal seed trap on bottom left of image, in MU33 on June 23 1970
Date: 6/23/1970

View from permanent sample plot 4/3 while second cut of three-stage uniform shelterwood was progressing, in MU29 on July 24 1968
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU29
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
logging
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: View from permanent sample plot 4/3 while second cut of three-stage uniform shelterwood was progressing, in MU29 on July 24 1968
Date: 7/24/1968

Uniform shelterwood with three-stage overstory removal, view from plot 5/2 before second cut, in MU29 on July 24, 1968
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU29
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Uniform shelterwood with three-stage overstory removal, view from plot 5/2 before second cut, in MU29 on July 24, 1968
Date: 7/24/1968

View on and from plot 1/2 before 2nd cut completed, in MU 29 on July 23, 1968
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU29
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: View on and from plot 1/2 before 2nd cut completed, in MU 29 on July 23, 1968
Date: 7/23/1968

Personnel inventorying seedlings after a prescribed burn in MU33 in 1965
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
personnel
plot
site preparation
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Personnel inventorying seedlings after a prescribed burn in MU33 in 1965
Date: 1965

A metal seed trap near the road in a strip clearcut in MU33 in the 1960s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
regeneration
road
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: A metal seed trap near the road in a strip clearcut in MU33 in the 1960s
Date: 1960s

Post-burn image of a strip clearcut with a metal seed trap in MU33 in the 1960s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
regeneration
site preparation
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Post-burn image of a strip clearcut with a metal seed trap in MU33 in the 1960s
Date: 1960s

A metal seed trap In a strip clearcut in MU33 in the 1960s
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: A metal seed trap In a strip clearcut in MU33 in the 1960s
Date: 1960s

CPL plot #1 - "high order". This duplicates view shown in #177 (PSEF_MU29_147), taken in 1950. Taken N10W from a point about 2.25 chains N80W of the southeast corner of the "high order" plt (CPL #1 Kodachrome #399 is a duplicate of this.)
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
Organisms: fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: CPL plot #1 - "high order". This duplicates view shown in #177 (PSEF_MU29_147), taken in 1950. Taken N10W from a point about 2.25 chains N80W of the southeast corner of the "high order" plt (CPL #1 Kodachrome #399 is a duplicate of this.)
Date: 10/30/1956

CPL plot #1 = "high order". This duplicates view shown in #175 (PSEF_MU29_145) taken in 1950. Taken N24W from a point 1.03 chains N19E of stake 33-66. Kodachrome #400 is a duplicate of this.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
Organisms: fir
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: CPL plot #1 = "high order". This duplicates view shown in #175 (PSEF_MU29_145) taken in 1950. Taken N24W from a point 1.03 chains N19E of stake 33-66. Kodachrome #400 is a duplicate of this.
Date: 10/30/1956

CPL plot #2 "good". This is believed to duplicate view shown in #176 (PSEF_MU29_146), taken in 1950; but relocation of photo-point was not certain. Taken S80E from a point on south side of logging road, approximately 4.5 chains east of point where west boundary of plot crosses road. Kodachrome #402 is a duplicate of this.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: CPL plot #2 "good". This is believed to duplicate view shown in #176 (PSEF_MU29_146), taken in 1950; but relocation of photo-point was not certain. Taken S80E from a point on south side of logging road, approximately 4.5 chains east of point where west boundary of plot crosses road. Kodachrome #402 is a duplicate of this.
Date: 10/30/1956

CPL plot #4 "poor". This duplicates view shown in #178 (PSEF_MU29_148), taken in 1950. Taken N48E from a point 1.1 chains S53W o stake 30-64. Kodachrome #403 is a duplicate of this.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
personnel
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: CPL plot #4 "poor". This duplicates view shown in #178 (PSEF_MU29_148), taken in 1950. Taken N48E from a point 1.1 chains S53W o stake 30-64. Kodachrome #403 is a duplicate of this.
Date: 10/30/1956

CPL plot #4 "poor". This duplicates view shown in #179 (PSEF_MU29_149), taken in 1950. Taken N73E from a point 2.15 chains N52E of the intersectiopn of logging road with the west boundary of the "poor" plot. Kodachrome #404 is a duplicate of this.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
personnel
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: CPL plot #4 "poor". This duplicates view shown in #179 (PSEF_MU29_149), taken in 1950. Taken N73E from a point 2.15 chains N52E of the intersectiopn of logging road with the west boundary of the "poor" plot. Kodachrome #404 is a duplicate of this.
Date: 10/30/1956

CPL plot #3 - "fair". This duplicates view shown in #173 (PSEF_MU29_143), taken in 1950. Taken N78E from a point 2.2 chains S27E of the northwest corner of the "fair" plot. Kodachrome #405 is a duplicate of this.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
personnel
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: CPL plot #3 - "fair". This duplicates view shown in #173 (PSEF_MU29_143), taken in 1950. Taken N78E from a point 2.2 chains S27E of the northwest corner of the "fair" plot. Kodachrome #405 is a duplicate of this.
Date: 10/30/1956

CPL plot #3 - "fair". This duplicates view shown in #172 (PSEF_MU29_142), taken in 1950. Taken N17E from a point 0.52 chains S48W of stake 31-64. Kodachrome #406 is duplicate of this.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
personnel
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29
Description: CPL plot #3 - "fair". This duplicates view shown in #172 (PSEF_MU29_142), taken in 1950. Taken N17E from a point 0.52 chains S48W of stake 31-64. Kodachrome #406 is duplicate of this.
Date: 10/30/1956

11-inch dbh red maple and 23-inch dbh eastern hemlock marked to release 11-inch dbh red spruce, photo point #5 (permanent sample plot 6/1) in MU13 on July 5 1956
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU13
Compartment Management Study
diameter-limit cut
marking
release
plot
photo point
Organisms: red maple
eastern hemlock
red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: 11-inch dbh red maple and 23-inch dbh eastern hemlock marked to release 11-inch dbh red spruce, photo point #5 (permanent sample plot 6/1) in MU13 on July 5 1956
Date: 7/5/1956

13-inch dbh eastern hemlock chemically debarked, 9-inch dbh spruce left, photo point #2 (permanent sample plot 2/1) in MU14 on July 5 1956
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU14
Compartment Management Study
selection system
personnel
plot
photo point
Organisms: eastern hemlock
spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: 13-inch dbh eastern hemlock chemically debarked, 9-inch dbh spruce left, photo point #2 (permanent sample plot 2/1) in MU14 on July 5 1956
Date: 7/5/1956

Large opening made about 12 years ago, bracken fern and raspberry with few spruce, balsam fir, or eastern hemlock seedlings, photo point #1 (near permanent sample plot 3/1) in MU14 on July 5 1956
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU14
Compartment Management Study
selection system
regeneration
plot
photo point
Organisms: spruce
balsam fir
eastern hemlock
raspberry
bracken fern
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Large opening made about 12 years ago, bracken fern and raspberry with few spruce, balsam fir, or eastern hemlock seedlings, photo point #1 (near permanent sample plot 3/1) in MU14 on July 5 1956
Date: 7/5/1956

Larger trees chemically debarked, 9-10 inch dbh spruce and eastern hemlock left, photo point #1 (permanent sample plot 3/5) in MU15 on July 5 1956
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU15
Compartment Management Study
diameter-limit cut
personnel
plot
photo point
Organisms: spruce
eastern hemlock
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Larger trees chemically debarked, 9-10 inch dbh spruce and eastern hemlock left, photo point #1 (permanent sample plot 3/5) in MU15 on July 5 1956
Date: 7/5/1956

Balsam fir saplings in foreground, 10-inch dbh spruce and eastern hemlock in background, photo point #2 (permanent sample plot 2/2, west of gravel road, south of woods road looking north) in MU4 on July 5 1956
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU4
Compartment Management Study
diameter-limit cut
personnel
plot
photo point
Organisms: balsam fir
spruce
eastern hemlock
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam fir saplings in foreground, 10-inch dbh spruce and eastern hemlock in background, photo point #2 (permanent sample plot 2/2, west of gravel road, south of woods road looking north) in MU4 on July 5 1956
Date: 7/5/1956

Black spruce - American larch swamp, spruces are 5-6 inches dbh, center spruce (just right of snag) is on the edge of the permanent sample plot, the shrubs are chiefly rhodora, also wild raisin (Viburnum cassinoides), leather-leaf, Labrador tea, and alder, photo point #6 (on permanent sample plot 5/2, 8 feet from the plot center, facing east) in MU32 on September 27 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU32
reference
plot
photo point
Organisms: black spruce
American larch
rhodora
wild raisin
leather-leaf
Labrador tea
alder
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Black spruce - American larch swamp, spruces are 5-6 inches dbh, center spruce (just right of snag) is on the edge of the permanent sample plot, the shrubs are chiefly rhodora, also wild raisin (Viburnum cassinoides), leather-leaf, Labrador tea, and alder, photo point #6 (on permanent sample plot 5/2, 8 feet from the plot center, facing east) in MU32 on September 27 1955
Date: 9/27/1955

Northern white-cedar stand with red spruce and eastern hemlock, no regeneration, photo point #8 (20 feet from center of permanent sample plot 4/3) in MU32 on September 27, 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU32
reference
plot
photo point
Organisms: red spruce
eastern hemlock
northern white-cedar
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Northern white-cedar stand with red spruce and eastern hemlock, no regeneration, photo point #8 (20 feet from center of permanent sample plot 4/3) in MU32 on September 27, 1955
Date: 9/27/1955

Dense mature eastern hemlock stand, trees are 8-12 inches dbh, one red spruce on right is 12 inches dbh, big eastern white pine in background (on the edge of permanent sample plot 3/2), a few small balsam fir seedlings, photo point #5 (on cruise line 3 midway between plots 2 and 3) in MU32 on September 27, 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU32
reference
plot
photo point
Organisms: eastern hemlock
red spruce
eastern white pine
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Dense mature eastern hemlock stand, trees are 8-12 inches dbh, one red spruce on right is 12 inches dbh, big eastern white pine in background (on the edge of permanent sample plot 3/2), a few small balsam fir seedlings, photo point #5 (on cruise line 3 midway between plots 2 and 3) in MU32 on September 27, 1955
Date: 9/27/1955

Maple saplings, 8-inch dbh eastern white pine, 7-inch dbh red spruce in foreground, American larch in background outside the plot, alder, winterberry, rhodora, meadow-sweet, leather-leaf, sweet gale, and cinnamon fern in the foreground, photo point #3 (20 feet from center of permanent sample plot 1/1, facing outside the plot (north)) in MU32 on September 27 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU32
reference
plot
photo point
Organisms: maple
eastern white pine
red spruce
American larch
alder
winterberry
rhodora
meadow-sweet
leather-leaf
sweet gale
cinnamon fern
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Maple saplings, 8-inch dbh eastern white pine, 7-inch dbh red spruce in foreground, American larch in background outside the plot, alder, winterberry, rhodora, meadow-sweet, leather-leaf, sweet gale, and cinnamon fern in the foreground, photo point #3 (20 feet from center of permanent sample plot 1/1, facing outside the plot (north)) in MU32 on September 27 1955
Date: 9/27/1955

Black spruce - American larch stand with trees 5-9 inches dbh, shrubs are wild raisin, winterberry, swamp holly (Nemopanthus mucronata), and alder, photo point #7 (between the MU boundary and permanent sample plot 6/4, facing plot center, all trees in foreground are on the plot) in MU32 on September 27 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU32
reference
plot
photo point
Organisms: black spruce
American larch
wild raisin
winterberry
swamp holly
alder
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Black spruce - American larch stand with trees 5-9 inches dbh, shrubs are wild raisin, winterberry, swamp holly (Nemopanthus mucronata), and alder, photo point #7 (between the MU boundary and permanent sample plot 6/4, facing plot center, all trees in foreground are on the plot) in MU32 on September 27 1955
Date: 9/27/1955

Young balsam fir with a few aspen and red spruce, photo point #1 (8 feet from center of permanent sample plot 1/3) in MU32 on September 27 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU32
reference
plot
photo point
Organisms: balsam fir
aspen
red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Young balsam fir with a few aspen and red spruce, photo point #1 (8 feet from center of permanent sample plot 1/3) in MU32 on September 27 1955
Date: 9/27/1955

Taken toward plot stake from a point 0.42 chains S20E of plot stake 29-60, D. Vander Poel in photo.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
personnel
blowdown
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 30
Description: Taken toward plot stake from a point 0.42 chains S20E of plot stake 29-60, D. Vander Poel in photo.
Date: 6/6/1955

Patch of raspberry with a few spruce and balsam fir seedlings, photo point #6 (permanent sample plot 2/1) in MU23 on May 24 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU23
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
regeneration
plot
photo point
Organisms: spruce
balsam fir
raspberry
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Patch of raspberry with a few spruce and balsam fir seedlings, photo point #6 (permanent sample plot 2/1) in MU23 on May 24 1955
Date: 5/24/1955

Eastern hemlock - hardwood stand before cutting, 9-inch dbh red maple and 12-inch dbh American beech marked for cutting, 14-inch dbh hemlock kept as future sawlog tree, balsam fir and beech regeneration, photo point #2 (on MU boundary behind permanent sample plot 1/1) in MU24 on May 24 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU24
Compartment Management Study
diameter-limit cut
marking
plot
release
regeneration
photo point
Organisms: eastern hemlock
red maple
American beech
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Eastern hemlock - hardwood stand before cutting, 9-inch dbh red maple and 12-inch dbh American beech marked for cutting, 14-inch dbh hemlock kept as future sawlog tree, balsam fir and beech regeneration, photo point #2 (on MU boundary behind permanent sample plot 1/1) in MU24 on May 24 1955
Date: 5/24/1955

Old clearing with balsam fir and eastern hemlock regeneration, one cull hemlock treated and two hemlock to be removed in a selection cutting, four pole-size spruce trees, photo point #5 (along the road 2.3 chains beyond permanent sample plot center post) in MU17 on May 6 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU17
Compartment Management Study
selection system
regeneration
plot
photo point
Organisms: balsam fir
eastern hemlock
spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Old clearing with balsam fir and eastern hemlock regeneration, one cull hemlock treated and two hemlock to be removed in a selection cutting, four pole-size spruce trees, photo point #5 (along the road 2.3 chains beyond permanent sample plot center post) in MU17 on May 6 1955
Date: 5/6/1955

Northern white-cedar stand on low ground with balsam fir regeneration, a red maple and a paper birch are marked for removal in a selection cutting, photo point #1 (south 60 degrees west, 1.8 chains from center of permanent sample plot 1/3) in MU17 on May 6 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU17
Compartment Management Study
selection system
marking
regeneration
plot
photo point
Organisms: northern white-cedar
red maple
paper birch
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Northern white-cedar stand on low ground with balsam fir regeneration, a red maple and a paper birch are marked for removal in a selection cutting, photo point #1 (south 60 degrees west, 1.8 chains from center of permanent sample plot 1/3) in MU17 on May 6 1955
Date: 5/6/1955

Spruce - eastern hemlock stand, some hemlock to be cut, cull maple, balsam fir thicket behind two hemlock marked for removal in a selection cutting, photo point #4 (near permanent sample plot 2/1) in MU17 on May 6 1955
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU17
Compartment Management Study
selection system
marking
plot
photo point
Organisms: eastern hemlock
spruce
maple
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Spruce - eastern hemlock stand, some hemlock to be cut, cull maple, balsam fir thicket behind two hemlock marked for removal in a selection cutting, photo point #4 (near permanent sample plot 2/1) in MU17 on May 6 1955
Date: 5/6/1955

Post-cut, 15-inch dbh eastern hemlock and 8-9 inch dbh red maple marked, leaving red spruce 4-11 inches dbh, photo point #1 (in permanent sample plot 2/4) in MU10 on August 2, 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU10
Compartment Management Study
selection system
marking
plot
photo point
Organisms: eastern hemlock
red maple
red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Post-cut, 15-inch dbh eastern hemlock and 8-9 inch dbh red maple marked, leaving red spruce 4-11 inches dbh, photo point #1 (in permanent sample plot 2/4) in MU10 on August 2, 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Seed trap for seedbed study (plot #6) in fully stocked softwood stand, in MU5 on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
personnel
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Seed trap for seedbed study (plot #6) in fully stocked softwood stand, in MU5 on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Pre cut, inventory crew measuring trees on permanent sample plot 2/1, Walter Kaulfuss measuring dbh, Ted Grisez tallying, Stanley Melching measuring sapling with tree fork, in MU21 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU21
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
personnel
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Pre cut, inventory crew measuring trees on permanent sample plot 2/1, Walter Kaulfuss measuring dbh, Ted Grisez tallying, Stanley Melching measuring sapling with tree fork, in MU21 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Walter Kaulfuss measuring diameter of 16-inch dbh eastern white pine (opening in left background is in MU7A), permanent sample plot 2/1 in MU21 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU21
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
personnel
plot
Organisms: eastern white pine
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Walter Kaulfuss measuring diameter of 16-inch dbh eastern white pine (opening in left background is in MU7A), permanent sample plot 2/1 in MU21 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Before cutting, photo point #3 (permanent sample plot 3/3 is 10 feet east) in MU12 on July 16 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU12
Compartment Management Study
selection system
plot
photo point
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Before cutting, photo point #3 (permanent sample plot 3/3 is 10 feet east) in MU12 on July 16 1954
Date: 7/16/1954

White spruce stand after first improvement cutting, photo point #5 (2 chains northeast of permanent sample plot 4/1) in MU9 on May 18 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU9
Compartment Management Study
selection system
timber stand improvement
plot
photo point
Organisms: white spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: White spruce stand after first improvement cutting, photo point #5 (2 chains northeast of permanent sample plot 4/1) in MU9 on May 18 1954
Date: 5/18/1954

Balsam fir regeneration 12 feet tall and 2 inches dbh in opening made about 12 years ago, photo point #2 (about 2 chains south of permanent sample plot 4/3) in MU10 on May 17 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU10
Compartment Management Study
selection system
plot
regeneration
photo point
Organisms: balsam fir
red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam fir regeneration 12 feet tall and 2 inches dbh in opening made about 12 years ago, photo point #2 (about 2 chains south of permanent sample plot 4/3) in MU10 on May 17 1954
Date: 5/17/1954

Edge of a strip clearcut with a metal seed trap visible in MU33
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Edge of a strip clearcut with a metal seed trap visible in MU33
Date:

"8x8' Spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce saplings in plot 3 in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
plot
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "8x8' Spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce saplings in plot 3 in Study 58
Date:

"Row Spacing and Release, Unfertilized" sign and spruce regeneration in plot 51 in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
plot
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Row Spacing and Release, Unfertilized" sign and spruce regeneration in plot 51 in Study 58
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