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Caption reads: "Plot U-54 (Maxwell). Urania, La." Man in photo is identified as Hamlin Williston.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: personnel
thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Plot U-54 (Maxwell). Urania, La." Man in photo is identified as Hamlin Williston.
Date: 9/29/1950

Maxwell plot #U-53, probably circa 1947.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Maxwell plot #U-53, probably circa 1947.
Date: 1947?

Caption reads: "Maxwell Plot U-3. Handerkerchief [sic] on tree 89 which is dead. Tree #93 and #97 showing."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Maxwell Plot U-3. Handerkerchief [sic] on tree 89 which is dead. Tree #93 and #97 showing."
Date: 5/10/1941

Caption reads: "Maxwell Plot U-5. Ax in gum near tree 101. Trees #101 and including #106 in foreground. Nos. of trees 51 and 93 showing in background."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
sweetgum
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Maxwell Plot U-5. Ax in gum near tree 101. Trees #101 and including #106 in foreground. Nos. of trees 51 and 93 showing in background."
Date: 5/10/1941

Presumably, this picture is of Plot #15 of the Urania thinning study, probably in the early 1940s.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Presumably, this picture is of Plot #15 of the Urania thinning study, probably in the early 1940s.
Date: 1940s?

Picture of Isom Strange Plot #80, probably in the early 1940s. Tree #173 is also shown in USFS image #241527.
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Picture of Isom Strange Plot #80, probably in the early 1940s. Tree #173 is also shown in USFS image #241527.
Date: 1940s?

Caption reads: "Hardwood understory that appears on better sites after cutting in stands of old field loblolly pine. Pine regeneration may be a serious problem here. Plot U-68 Nelson, Winn [LaSalle?] Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Hardwood understory that appears on better sites after cutting in stands of old field loblolly pine. Pine regeneration may be a serious problem here. Plot U-68 Nelson, Winn [LaSalle?] Parish, La."
Date: 8/16/1937

Caption reads: "32 year old loblolly pine in old field stand after second thinning has reduced the stand to 85 trees per acre. Plot U78, Winn [LaSalle??] Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "32 year old loblolly pine in old field stand after second thinning has reduced the stand to 85 trees per acre. Plot U78, Winn [LaSalle??] Parish, La."
Date: 11/14/1933

Caption reads: "Sub-plot A-1 after thinning. Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, see #283852."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Sub-plot A-1 after thinning. Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, see #283852."
Date: 5/31/1933

Caption reads: "A 31 inch cherry-bark oak on sub-plot I-1, #2A effectively and efficiently girdled. Plot U-102, LaSalle, Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: girdling
Organisms: cherrybark oak
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "A 31 inch cherry-bark oak on sub-plot I-1, #2A effectively and efficiently girdled. Plot U-102, LaSalle, Parish, La."
Date: 5/31/1933

Caption reads: "A 23 inch post oak on sub-plot P-6, #15 girdled effectively but at more labor than necessary. Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: girdling
Organisms: post oak
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "A 23 inch post oak on sub-plot P-6, #15 girdled effectively but at more labor than necessary. Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, La."
Date: 5/31/1933

Caption reads: "Sub-plot A-1 before thinning. The trees marked to leave have white cloth tied around them at 6 feet, those marked to cut are blazed at 4 feet. Compare with #283861, Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Sub-plot A-1 before thinning. The trees marked to leave have white cloth tied around them at 6 feet, those marked to cut are blazed at 4 feet. Compare with #283861, Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, La."
Date: 3/29/1933

Caption reads: "A typical wolf hardwood removed by girdling on sub-plot C-1. This tree was a 20 inch post oak and very defective. Note the large crown and spreading limbs. Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: girdling
Organisms: post oak
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "A typical wolf hardwood removed by girdling on sub-plot C-1. This tree was a 20 inch post oak and very defective. Note the large crown and spreading limbs. Plot U-102, LaSalle Parish, La."
Date: 3/29/1933

Caption reads: "Contrast in pulpwood yields from 4 and 5 inch trees. The taller pile on the left was cut from 50 five inch trees, the smaller pile on the left was cut from 50 five inch trees, the smaller pile immediately to the right was cut from 100 four inch trees. Plot U-103, LaSalle Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: pulpwood
thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Contrast in pulpwood yields from 4 and 5 inch trees. The taller pile on the left was cut from 50 five inch trees, the smaller pile on the left was cut from 50 five inch trees, the smaller pile immediately to the right was cut from 100 four inch trees. Plot U-103, LaSalle Parish, La."
Date: 3/29/1933

Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. A light thinning from below. See photo 22427A for a comparison, also photos of plots 13 and 15. Loblolly pine. See photo 254814." Note the stack of wood displaying an earlier thinning; this wood was left onsite, either because of a lack of a market, or as a display example for tours, or perhaps because there just wasn't enough volume for this to be sold. Wood is now wasted...
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. A light thinning from below. See photo 22427A for a comparison, also photos of plots 13 and 15. Loblolly pine. See photo 254814." Note the stack of wood displaying an earlier thinning; this wood was left onsite, either because of a lack of a market, or as a display example for tours, or perhaps because there just wasn't enough volume for this to be sold. Wood is now wasted...
Date: 4/30/1931

Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. Heavy thinning from below. See photo 22419A for comparison, also photos of plots 14 and 13. Loblolly pine. Plot 15. See photo 254815."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. Heavy thinning from below. See photo 22419A for comparison, also photos of plots 14 and 13. Loblolly pine. Plot 15. See photo 254815."
Date: 4/30/1931

Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. A view of a light French thinning. See photo 194718 for comparison, also pictures of plot 55. Loblolly pine. [Plot] U-56."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
French
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. A view of a light French thinning. See photo 194718 for comparison, also pictures of plot 55. Loblolly pine. [Plot] U-56."
Date: 4/29/1931

Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. A view of a light French thinning. See photo 194725 for comparison, also pictures of plot 55. Loblolly pine. [Plot] U-56. See photo 254794."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
French
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. A view of a light French thinning. See photo 194725 for comparison, also pictures of plot 55. Loblolly pine. [Plot] U-56. See photo 254794."
Date: 4/29/1931

Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. See photo 194719 for comparison. Loblolly pine. U-54."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "LaSalle Parish, La. See photo 194719 for comparison. Loblolly pine. U-54."
Date: 4/29/1931

Caption reads: "Southwest corner of [Maxwell] plot 3. See photo 194734 for comparison. Also see photo of plots 4 and 5. Loblolly pine. Check plot. LaSalle Parish, La."
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Collection: Southern Research Station Historical Documents and Images
Keywords: thinning
check plot
Organisms: loblolly pine
Location: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
Description: Caption reads: "Southwest corner of [Maxwell] plot 3. See photo 194734 for comparison. Also see photo of plots 4 and 5. Loblolly pine. Check plot. LaSalle Parish, La."
Date: 4/27/1931