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Completed spacing favoring spruce, uniform shelterwood stand, in MU23 on March 29 1982
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU23
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
thinning
release
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Completed spacing favoring spruce, uniform shelterwood stand, in MU23 on March 29 1982
Date: 3/29/1982

Completed uniform shelterwood spacing job favoring spruce with a few hardwoods in MU23 on March 29 1982
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU23
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
personnel
thinning
release
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Completed uniform shelterwood spacing job favoring spruce with a few hardwoods in MU23 on March 29 1982
Date: 3/29/1982

Marking to remove competition and release spruce in a selection cut, in MU91 in October 1979
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU91
Cutting Practice Level Study
selection system
marking
release
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Marking to remove competition and release spruce in a selection cut, in MU91 in October 1979
Date: Oct-79

Balsam fir thicket on December 3 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: release
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam fir thicket on December 3 1958
Date: 12/3/1958

Balsam fir thicket on December 3 1958
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: release
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam fir thicket on December 3 1958
Date: 12/3/1958

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

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

Overtopping gray birch and red maple cut to release softwood reproduction, along road to boat landing on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
release
Organisms: gray birch
red maple
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Overtopping gray birch and red maple cut to release softwood reproduction, along road to boat landing on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Weeding with sodium arsenite tabs. Tab being inserted in grey birch to release white spruce sapling, on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: release
Organisms: gray birch
white spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Weeding with sodium arsenite tabs. Tab being inserted in grey birch to release white spruce sapling, on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Sections from two balsam fir trees, section on left is from tree released 10 years ago (grew 4.5 inches from a dbh of 6.5 inches in 1944 to 11.0 inches in 1954), section on right shows last 10 years of growth of tree that was not released (grew 0.6 inches in dbh in the last decade), on June 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: release
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Sections from two balsam fir trees, section on left is from tree released 10 years ago (grew 4.5 inches from a dbh of 6.5 inches in 1944 to 11.0 inches in 1954), section on right shows last 10 years of growth of tree that was not released (grew 0.6 inches in dbh in the last decade), on June 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954