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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
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

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

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.
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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

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.
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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

Image taken at coordinates 70-22, direction N55W, distance 30 chains, with a bearing of S53E. Mature hard maple and yellow birch with sapling hard maple and beech understory. Suppressed spruce saplings.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
Hardwood
personnel
Organisms: maple
yellow birch
beech
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 55
Description: Image taken at coordinates 70-22, direction N55W, distance 30 chains, with a bearing of S53E. Mature hard maple and yellow birch with sapling hard maple and beech understory. Suppressed spruce saplings.
Date: 1950

Image taken at coordinates 72-21, direction N52E, distance 40 links; with a bearing of S60E. Beech and hard maple saplings in half of photos. Overstory is hard maple and beech. Spruce is also scattered throughout this area as seen in the background.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
hardwood
personnel
Organisms: maple
beech
spruce
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 55
Description: Image taken at coordinates 72-21, direction N52E, distance 40 links; with a bearing of S60E. Beech and hard maple saplings in half of photos. Overstory is hard maple and beech. Spruce is also scattered throughout this area as seen in the background.
Date: 1950