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Arthur Hart pole pruning in December 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
pruning
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Arthur Hart pole pruning in December 1954
Date: Dec-54

Post-cut, 15-inch dbh eastern hemlock and 8-9 inch dbh red maple marked, leaving red spruce 4-11 inches dbh, photo point #1 (in permanent sample plot 2/4) in MU10 on August 2, 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU10
Compartment Management Study
selection system
marking
plot
photo point
Organisms: eastern hemlock
red maple
red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Post-cut, 15-inch dbh eastern hemlock and 8-9 inch dbh red maple marked, leaving red spruce 4-11 inches dbh, photo point #1 (in permanent sample plot 2/4) in MU10 on August 2, 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Seed trap for seedbed study (plot #6) in fully stocked softwood stand, in MU5 on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
personnel
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Seed trap for seedbed study (plot #6) in fully stocked softwood stand, in MU5 on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

After cutting, photo point #2 in MU5 on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
photo point
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: After cutting, photo point #2 in MU5 on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Softwood regeneration overtopped by gray birch and red maple, before weeding, along road to boat landing on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
regeneration
Organisms: gray birch
red maple
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Softwood regeneration overtopped by gray birch and red maple, before weeding, along road to boat landing on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Overtopping gray birch and red maple cut to release softwood reproduction, along road to boat landing on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
release
Organisms: gray birch
red maple
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Overtopping gray birch and red maple cut to release softwood reproduction, along road to boat landing on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Weeding with sodium arsenite tabs. Tab being inserted in grey birch to release white spruce sapling, on August 2 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: release
Organisms: gray birch
white spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Weeding with sodium arsenite tabs. Tab being inserted in grey birch to release white spruce sapling, on August 2 1954
Date: 8/2/1954

Arthur Hart in a dense stand of red spruce, in MU1 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU1
Cutting Practice Level Study
personnel
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Arthur Hart in a dense stand of red spruce, in MU1 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Good cutting practice (selection cutting) in the Cutting Practice Level study, eastern hemlock and spruce stand 4 years after improvement cutting, in MU1 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU1
Cutting Practice Level Study
selection system
timber stand improvement
Organisms: eastern hemlock
spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Good cutting practice (selection cutting) in the Cutting Practice Level study, eastern hemlock and spruce stand 4 years after improvement cutting, in MU1 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Poor cutting practice (commercial clearcut) in the Cutting Practice Level Study, fifth growing season after stumpwood cutting in spruce - balsam fir stand, raspberry plants growing in "stump road," in MU1 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU1
Cutting Practice Level Study
commercial clearcut
personnel
Organisms: spruce
balsam fir
raspberry
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Poor cutting practice (commercial clearcut) in the Cutting Practice Level Study, fifth growing season after stumpwood cutting in spruce - balsam fir stand, raspberry plants growing in "stump road," in MU1 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Arthur Hart in a red spruce stand after improvement cutting, peeled pulpwood trees on the ground, in MU12 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU12
Compartment Management Study
selection system
logging
personnel
timber stand improvement
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Arthur Hart in a red spruce stand after improvement cutting, peeled pulpwood trees on the ground, in MU12 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Slow-growing red spruce regeneration in shade of dense stand, in MU17 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU17
Compartment Management Study
selection system
regeneration
personnel
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Slow-growing red spruce regeneration in shade of dense stand, in MU17 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Stanley Jones marking a 12-inch dbh red spruce for removal in a selection cutting, this tree has coarse branches and is forked at about 12 feet, making it undesirable growing stock, in MU17 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU17
Compartment Management Study
selection system
marking
personnel
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Stanley Jones marking a 12-inch dbh red spruce for removal in a selection cutting, this tree has coarse branches and is forked at about 12 feet, making it undesirable growing stock, in MU17 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Pre cut, inventory crew measuring trees on permanent sample plot 2/1, Walter Kaulfuss measuring dbh, Ted Grisez tallying, Stanley Melching measuring sapling with tree fork, in MU21 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU21
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
personnel
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Pre cut, inventory crew measuring trees on permanent sample plot 2/1, Walter Kaulfuss measuring dbh, Ted Grisez tallying, Stanley Melching measuring sapling with tree fork, in MU21 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Walter Kaulfuss measuring diameter of 16-inch dbh eastern white pine (opening in left background is in MU7A), permanent sample plot 2/1 in MU21 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU21
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
personnel
plot
Organisms: eastern white pine
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Walter Kaulfuss measuring diameter of 16-inch dbh eastern white pine (opening in left background is in MU7A), permanent sample plot 2/1 in MU21 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Ted Grisez sighting compass in MU21 on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU21
Compartment Management Study
personnel
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Ted Grisez sighting compass in MU21 on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Balsam fir thicket after thinning, on June 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam fir thicket after thinning, on June 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Balsam fir thicket before thinning, on June 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: thinning
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Balsam fir thicket before thinning, on June 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Red spruce tree probably about 30 years old, under dense northern hardwood pole stand on July 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Red spruce tree probably about 30 years old, under dense northern hardwood pole stand on July 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954

Sections from two balsam fir trees, section on left is from tree released 10 years ago (grew 4.5 inches from a dbh of 6.5 inches in 1944 to 11.0 inches in 1954), section on right shows last 10 years of growth of tree that was not released (grew 0.6 inches in dbh in the last decade), on June 28 1954
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: release
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Sections from two balsam fir trees, section on left is from tree released 10 years ago (grew 4.5 inches from a dbh of 6.5 inches in 1944 to 11.0 inches in 1954), section on right shows last 10 years of growth of tree that was not released (grew 0.6 inches in dbh in the last decade), on June 28 1954
Date: 7/28/1954