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Taken N 30 W from a point N 46 W 0.50 chains from stake 60-23.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: post-harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Taken N 30 W from a point N 46 W 0.50 chains from stake 60-23.
Date: 5/7/1956

Group of Adirondack foresters visiting the PSEF compartment 19. The first cut was made in 1953 in a stand with a white pine overstory. The next cut will be 10-1 1 years later. Allen Brattin in extreme background. Rushmore in extreme right.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
field tour
shelterwood
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Group of Adirondack foresters visiting the PSEF compartment 19. The first cut was made in 1953 in a stand with a white pine overstory. The next cut will be 10-1 1 years later. Allen Brattin in extreme background. Rushmore in extreme right.
Date: 5/20/1954

Stand before cutting. Looking south from 57" white pine stump. Photo taken from log deck.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: pre-harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Stand before cutting. Looking south from 57" white pine stump. Photo taken from log deck.
Date: 10/23/1953

Old growth white pine stump 57" diameter at 2 feet above ground. Annual rings could be counted 30' above ground -- 227 years. Estimated age of tree about 250. Sound above 30'. Total height 147'. Merchantable length 87'. 6' of butt cull, next 22' contained rot but was merchantable 65' sound logs. 7' broken section. 45' top not merchantable. E. and B. Sussice in photo.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: stump
old growth
harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Old growth white pine stump 57" diameter at 2 feet above ground. Annual rings could be counted 30' above ground -- 227 years. Estimated age of tree about 250. Sound above 30'. Total height 147'. Merchantable length 87'. 6' of butt cull, next 22' contained rot but was merchantable 65' sound logs. 7' broken section. 45' top not merchantable. E. and B. Sussice in photo.
Date: 10/23/1953

Bert and Ernest Sussice decking white pine logs. Initial cut to establish a shelterwood for reproduction.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: log deck
shelterwood
harvest
Organisms: white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: Bert and Ernest Sussice decking white pine logs. Initial cut to establish a shelterwood for reproduction.
Date: 10/23/1953

A shelterwood cut has been made to get more reproduction before the final cut 10-15 years later. This compartment is meant to produce an even-aged stand of red spruce, balsam fir, and white pine.
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Collection: Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: shelterwood
Organisms: red spruce
fir
white pine
Location: Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19
Description: A shelterwood cut has been made to get more reproduction before the final cut 10-15 years later. This compartment is meant to produce an even-aged stand of red spruce, balsam fir, and white pine.
Date: 10/23/1953