| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | hardwood |
| Organisms: |
red maple balsam fir |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | On the Farm Woodlot poor-quality red maples were poisoned to release balsam fir. The maple at the left is riddled with heart rot. These red maples occupied this site for 40 years and most of them now prove to be unmerchantable because of extensive heartrot. "Have 40 years been wasted? Can we anticipate this and prevent it? Is it worth it?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel blowdown gap |
| Organisms: | red maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Opening made by severe windstorms in 1950 and 1954. Nearly all of the 60-80-year-old red maples are severely affected by heart rot at each overgrown limb; they have been poisoned to release the softwoods. If the young maples developing in the opening are not controlled, they will someday duplicate the present overstory condition. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
gap blowdown |
| Organisms: |
red maple raspberry |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Large opening made by 1950 windfall did not have understory softwoods, and it was occupied by red maple seedlings and red raspberry 6 years later. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | pulpwood |
| Organisms: |
red maple paper birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Red maple and white birch interfering with softwood were treated with frill and sodium arsenite. This will destroy them and also peel the bark to make them suitable for pulpwood. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel post-harvest softwood |
| Organisms: |
red maple red spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | The compartment also contains smaller trees where only a few trees will be cut. These red maples and red spruce developed after a heavy softwood cut 40-50 years ago. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel equipment stump post-harvest |
| Organisms: |
white pine red maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | About 50 years ago white pines occupied the overstory here. The red maples came in after cutting; most are of poor quality even for pulpwood. "Has 50-years growth been wasted?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
reproduction gap |
| Organisms: |
spruce yellow birch red maple |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | On the spruce-yellow birch site, red maple reproduction quickly takes advantage of large openings. |
| Date: | 1950 |