| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
pre-harvest personnel |
| Organisms: |
beech maple yellow birch spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | Overstory of yellow birch, hard maple is being crowded out by beech in both overstory and ground cover. Note large dead birch directly beside me. Most of the few spruce are being suppressed by the beech. Initial stand photo taken facing N5E from a point 0.71 chains S36W of stake 88-22. Shafer in photo |
| Date: | 4/19/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
pre-harvest suppression |
| Organisms: |
maple beech yellow birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | Hard maple stems 2 to 3 feet in diameter are abundant but somewhat suppressed due to heavy beech, maple, yellow birch overstory. Photo taken facing S35W from a point 1.55 chains S45E of stake 86-19. |
| Date: | 4/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
maple beech spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | Stems of many of the dominant maple and beech are of poor quality due to crown damage; beech and hard maple understory 2-8 inches in diameter; spruce undergrowth. Photo taken facing due west from a point 1.44 chains S19E of stake center 85-19. |
| Date: | 4/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
beech yellow birch maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | Initial stand photo of northern hardwood stand taken facing S45W from a point 0.49 chains S30W of stake 86-20. Hardwoods that are dominant are of desirable quality - note large yellow birch; however large openings in the canopy have resulted in abundant beech in both pole and pulpwood sizes - note foreground of photo. |
| Date: | 4/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
pre-harvest hardwood |
| Organisms: |
beech maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | Initial stand photo of northern hardwoods taken facing N10E from a point 0.14 chains S75W of stake 86-21. Hard maple and beech overstory and scattered 2 and 3 foot tall beech and hard maple saplings. |
| Date: | 4/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
maple yellow birch spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | Mostly hard maple and yellow birch overstory with suppressed spruce understory. Photo taken facing S45E from a point 1.2 chains N60W of stake 86-22. |
| Date: | 4/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
pre-harvest regeneration |
| Organisms: |
maple beech birch spruce hemlock |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | This is a softwood overstory of spruce and hemlock with a hardwood understory of beech, birch, and maple all 2 to 4 inches in diameter. This photo is taken facing N80W from a point 1.2 chains N60W of stake 86-22. |
| Date: | 4/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
maple witch hobble hemlock yellow birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 48 |
| Description: | Opening in understory with only a few witch hobble and suppressed maple saplings. Canopy topped with hemlock (see edge of photo). Background is sawlog yellow birch of good form and quality. Photo taken facing due west from a point 1.26 chains S11E of stake 86-23. |
| Date: | 4/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
spruce yellow birch fir maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 47 |
| Description: | Initial photo of spruce-yellow birch stand. Pole sized yellow birch and some hard maple in overstory with spruce and fir (10 - 20 feet height) in understory. Photo taken facing N80W from a point 0.96 chains S8E of stake 87-18. |
| Date: | 4/10/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
pre-harvest regeneration |
| Organisms: |
spruce yellow birch maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 47 |
| Description: | Pole size yellow birch and hard maple overstory with favorable spruce reproduction of 1 inch to 3 feet in height. Seen in background of photo. Photo taken facing N20E from a point 0.44 chains S60E of stake 88-19. |
| Date: | 4/10/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
spruce yellow birch hemlock maple beech viburnum fir |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 47 |
| Description: | Merchantable yellow birch, spruce, hemlock, and hard maple overstory; understory predominantly beech; some fir in the intermediate position; ground cover mostly viburnum. Initial stand photo taken facing N40E from a point 0.45 chains N16E from stake 83-19. |
| Date: | 4/4/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
witch hobble maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 47 |
| Description: | Understory is pole size hard maple (also saplings); predominance of witch hobble in foreground. |
| Date: | 4/4/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | reproduction |
| Organisms: |
beech maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 38 |
| Description: | Taken N22W from stake 35-43. Dense growth of beech and hard maple reproduction following heavy cutting about 1947. |
| Date: | 10/23/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
post-harvest salvage cut blowdown |
| Organisms: |
maple fir |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 4 |
| Description: | Taken NW from same position as photo #388 (PSEF_MU4_10051956_20). Heavy 1954 blowdown area after 1956 salvage cut |
| Date: | 10/5/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | hardwood |
| Organisms: |
beech maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49 |
| Description: | Taken due north from stake 82-19. Same area in photo number 405 in March of 1957. |
| Date: | 5/15/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
fir maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 49 |
| Description: | Taken due N from a point 0.2 chains S of stake 79-18. |
| Date: | 5/15/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
hardwood post-harvest |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19 |
| Description: | Taken due N from a point N 04 W 0.10 chains from stake 62-23. |
| Date: | 5/7/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | personnel |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29 |
| Description: | In October 1956. |
| Date: | 1956 |
| 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 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
post-harvest softwood |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | After cutting taken north from plot stake 65-28. Softwood compt. |
| Date: | 6/10/1955 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | personnel |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 31 |
| Description: | Taken north from a point about 10 feet south of plot stake 33-54. D. Vander Poel in photo. Residual Stand photo #356. |
| Date: | 6/6/1955 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
pre-harvest blowdown reproduction |
| Organisms: |
maple red maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 14 |
| Description: | Looking north from photo station #4, near plot 20-58. This is in the area of 1950 blowdown. The area is poorly stocked, and brush and red maple reproduction are abundant. Stand before 2955 cutting. |
| Date: | 5/10/1955 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
pre-harvest blowdown reproduction |
| Organisms: |
maple red maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 14 |
| Description: | Looking north from photo station #3, near plot 20-58. This is in the area of 1950 blowdown. The area is poorly stocked, and brush and red maple reproduction are abundant. Stand shown before 1955 cutting. |
| Date: | 5/10/1955 |
| 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 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel pre-harvest |
| Organisms: |
yellow birch maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Part of stand at lower elevation, before cutting occurred in 1955. |
| Date: | 1955 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest log deck personnel pulpwood |
| Organisms: |
spruce fir yellow birch maple hemlock |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Piled pulpwood cut from compt. 25. Stand has been cut for sawlogs and spruce and fir pulpwood. Some hemlock remains along with defective yellow birch and soft maple. Much of this wood is quite defective even though it is small. Rev. Frank A. Reed in photo. |
| Date: | 2/12/1953 |
| Collection: | Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
MU7 Farm Woodlot Study selection system timber stand improvement release photo point |
| Organisms: |
eastern hemlock maple |
| Location: | Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine |
| Description: | Chance for timber stand improvement by removing cull 14-inch dbh maple to release 3-inch dbh eastern hemlock, photo point #5 (looking north 50 degrees east) in MU7 on August 14 1952 |
| Date: | 8/14/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel hardwood |
| Organisms: |
beech yellow birch maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | A situation that is common in the Adirondacks: mature yellow birch and hard maple, with beech in a secondary position. In similar stands, cutting of the better hardwoods -- with only a limited market for beech -- has put beech in a dominant position. With the abundance of beech reproduction of all sizes, lack of hard maple of similar sizes, and the intolerance of the birch, it appears that beech can remain in possession of such sites for a long time. "Is this desirable or undesirable?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
gap personnel hardwood reproduction |
| Organisms: |
maple beech |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Large openings encouraged hard maple and beech reproduction. The large trees did not meet current standards of merchantability and were not wanted by the cutters 6 years earlier. Improving markets may permit harvest of some trees in the furture, but others are cull. "Can and should anything be done to help the better saplings? Would there be long-range benefits to compensate for investments made to improve the stand?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
selection post-harvest hardwood |
| Organisms: |
maple yellow birch white ash |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | With light selection cutting (residual stand 70 sq. ft. B.A.) existing understory beech were benefited, but few hard maple, white ash, and yellow birch seedlings grew more than 12 inches high. This is 17 years after the first cutting. "Does this happen only on less-fertile soils? Would hard maples have reacted like this on more-fertile soils? Maple seed trees were more abundant here than beech seed trees." |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel stump hardwood pulpwood |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | A hardwood stand "creamed" for sawlogs 6 years earlier. The stand is too far from existing hardwood pulpwood markets. "Can anything be done to rehabilitate the stand? Should only the cull trees be poisoned, assuming it could be done for less than $6.00 per acre? What would you do with it?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel stump post-harvest reproduction |
| Organisms: |
beech maple yellow birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | The same place after the first cut. Poor quality beech were poisoned 19 months earlier, and were debarked with frill and sodium arsenite for $4.13 per acre. It is anticipated that hard maple and yellow birch reproduction will have a better opportunity to become established without competition from the beech. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | post-harvest |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Same area after cutting. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | post-harvest |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Same area after cutting. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel reproduction |
| Organisms: |
beech maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | "On some spots beech were nearly all poisoned. We can compare the results with other compartments where varying numbers of beech were left. Hard maple advance reproduction is abundant here. It is about 14 inches high and 7 years old. Most of those about 3 feet high are beech. What will happen to them?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel pre-harvest |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Before cutting. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Before cutting. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | hardwood |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Poor-quality red maples 60-80 years old, and containing considerable heart rot, were poisoned to release softwoods. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
slash gap |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | 100 years ago, slash probably was not heavy here and the light fire did not destroy many trees. This is a drier site than (C19 - 170) and understory hardwoods develop in openings. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel hardwood |
| Organisms: |
beech yellow birch maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | The natural area also contains stands of northern hardwoods. Here, beech have developed beneath large yellow birch and hard maple. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel hardwood |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | There are some patches of hardwoods, but their quality was not very high. In more open places, understory hardwoods were more abundant. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | personnel |
| Organisms: |
hemlock maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Not many of these big hemlock were cut: there was too much ring shake and heartrot. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel hardwood old growth |
| Organisms: |
beech maple yellow birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Mature norther hardwoods containing many intermediate beech. In this stand ages of mature trees averaged; hard maple 235, yellow birch 218, and beech 230. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | post-harvest |
| Organisms: |
spruce yellow birch maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Fairly heavy cutting about 1900 resulted in a stand of young soft maple and yellow birch. Another sawlog cutting occurred 1 year before this photo was taken. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel selection post-harvest |
| Organisms: |
maple yellow birch white ash |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Selection plot in background. Cut back to 70 sq. ft. basal area in 1938 and again in 1948. This was too much overstory for hard maple, yellow birch, and white ash seedlings. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
selection hardwood |
| Organisms: |
maple beech |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Selection plot. Only understory trees benefiting from these light cuttings were beech. In larger openings, some hard maple saplings developed. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
suppression hardwood |
| Organisms: |
maple beech yellow birch witch hobble white ash |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Control plot. Under the dense hardwood overstory, few hard maple, yellow birch, or white ash seedlings developed beyond 12 inches high. Even the tolerant witch hobble and beech were much less abundant here than on the selection plot where they had more light. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel shelterwood browse |
| Organisms: |
deer maple yellow birch white ash beech witch hobble |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | The shelterwood plot was left with about 50 sq. ft. of basal area among overstory trees 6"+ d.b.h. This opening produced an abundance of hard maple, yellow birch, and white ash seedlings. Deer promptly came to "picnic" and have permitted few of these to grow beyond 12" high (snow provides some protection). Six years later these better hardwoods were growing well only within the protection of the deer exclosure. Severe browsing outside of it was benefiting the less-palatable beech and witch hobble. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| 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 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel equipment slash post-harvest |
| Organisms: | maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 29 |
| Description: | After cutting, in October 1950. |
| Date: | 1950 |