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Large red spruce and eastern hemlock with a sapling understory of balsam fir in a selection stand, in MU16
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU16
Compartment Management Study
selection system
regeneration
Organisms: red spruce
eastern hemlock
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Large red spruce and eastern hemlock with a sapling understory of balsam fir in a selection stand, in MU16
Date:

Prolific balsam fir reproduction and some red spruce in a forest opening in a selection stand, in MU16
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU16
Compartment Management Study
selection system
regeneration
Organisms: balsam fir
red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Prolific balsam fir reproduction and some red spruce in a forest opening in a selection stand, in MU16
Date:

White spruce 10 inches dbh, balsam fir coming in opening, larger fir are 6 feet tall, in MU2
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU2
Farm Woodlot Study
selection system
regeneration
Organisms: white spruce
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: White spruce 10 inches dbh, balsam fir coming in opening, larger fir are 6 feet tall, in MU2
Date:

Red spruce in MU20
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU20
Compartment Management Study
selection system
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Red spruce in MU20
Date:

Shelterwood silviculture, in MU21
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU21
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Shelterwood silviculture, in MU21
Date:

6-10 foot tall balsam fir in a 15 year-old opening in MU23
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU23
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
regeneration
Organisms: balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: 6-10 foot tall balsam fir in a 15 year-old opening in MU23
Date:

Person evaluating blowdown in MU23
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU23
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
damage
personnel
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Person evaluating blowdown in MU23
Date:

Image of conifer regeneration in MU29 (3-stage shelterwood)
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU29
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
regeneration
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Image of conifer regeneration in MU29 (3-stage shelterwood)
Date:

Image of conifer regeneration in MU29 (3-stage shelterwood) two years after final harvest of the overstory
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU29
Compartment Management Study
shelterwood system
regeneration
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Image of conifer regeneration in MU29 (3-stage shelterwood) two years after final harvest of the overstory
Date:

Edge of a strip clearcut with a metal seed trap visible in MU33
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
regeneration
plot
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Edge of a strip clearcut with a metal seed trap visible in MU33
Date:

Robert M. Frank standing on PEF road next to strip clearcut, hardwood regeneration present, in MU33
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
personnel
road
regeneration
Organisms: red maple
eastern white pine
aspen
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Robert M. Frank standing on PEF road next to strip clearcut, hardwood regeneration present, in MU33
Date:

Robert M. Frank measuring aspen regeneration in a strip clearcut in MU33
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU33
Biomass Harvesting Study
strip clearcut
personnel
regeneration
Organisms: aspen
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Robert M. Frank measuring aspen regeneration in a strip clearcut in MU33
Date:

Black spruce and balsam fir, in MU5
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
Organisms: black spruce
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Black spruce and balsam fir, in MU5
Date:

Spruce regeneration in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Spruce regeneration in Study 58
Date:

Spruce regeneration in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Spruce regeneration in Study 58
Date:

Spruce regeneration in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Spruce regeneration in Study 58
Date:

"8x8' Spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce saplings in plot 3 in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
plot
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "8x8' Spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce saplings in plot 3 in Study 58
Date:

"Row Spacing and Release, Unfertilized" sign and spruce regeneration in plot 51 in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
plot
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Row Spacing and Release, Unfertilized" sign and spruce regeneration in plot 51 in Study 58
Date:

"Early Release and Fertilization Study in Spruce-Fir" sign and spruce regeneration in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Early Release and Fertilization Study in Spruce-Fir" sign and spruce regeneration in Study 58
Date:

"Row Spacing and Release, Unfertilized" sign and spruce saplings in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Row Spacing and Release, Unfertilized" sign and spruce saplings in Study 58
Date:

"8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce regeneration in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce regeneration in Study 58
Date:

"8x8 Spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce saplings in plot 7 in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
plot
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "8x8 Spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce saplings in plot 7 in Study 58
Date:

"8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
Date:

Descriptive signs in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Descriptive signs in Study 58
Date:

"8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
Date:

"Control, No Release, Unfertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Control, No Release, Unfertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
Date:

"8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "8x8' spacing, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
Date:

"Row spacing Only, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce regeneration in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Row spacing Only, Fertilized" sign in front of spruce regeneration in Study 58
Date:

"Control, No Release, Unfertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Control, No Release, Unfertilized" sign in front of spruce in Study 58
Date:

"Row spacing Only, Unfertilized" sign in front of spruce in plot 20 Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
sign
plot
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: "Row spacing Only, Unfertilized" sign in front of spruce in plot 20 Study 58
Date:

Spruce, eastern white pine, and balsam fir regeneration with a mixedwood overstory in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
Organisms: spruce
eastern white pine
balsam fir
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Spruce, eastern white pine, and balsam fir regeneration with a mixedwood overstory in Study 58
Date:

Aerial image of Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
aerial photo
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Aerial image of Study 58
Date:

People having a discussion in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
personnel
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: People having a discussion in Study 58
Date:

Spaced spruce saplings in Study 58
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: Study 58
thinning
regeneration
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Spaced spruce saplings in Study 58
Date:

Soil disturbance caused by rubber-tired skidder during selection cutting, in MU90
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU90
Cutting Practice Level Study
damage
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Soil disturbance caused by rubber-tired skidder during selection cutting, in MU90
Date:

Soil disturbance caused by skidder during selection cutting, in MU90
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU90
Cutting Practice Level Study
damage
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Soil disturbance caused by skidder during selection cutting, in MU90
Date:

Selection stand, in MU 90
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU90
Cutting Practice Level Study
selection system
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Selection stand, in MU 90
Date:

A display of a cord of wood in MU90
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU90
Cutting Practice Level Study
sign
infrastructure
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: A display of a cord of wood in MU90
Date:

Comparison of 1-, 4-, and 8-year-old spruce seedlings with a ruler
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Comparison of 1-, 4-, and 8-year-old spruce seedlings with a ruler
Date:

Robert M. Frank assessing conifer logs at a landing
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
logging
Organisms: pine
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Robert M. Frank assessing conifer logs at a landing
Date:

Two people conducting precommercial thinning in a conifer stand
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
thinning
Organisms: spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Two people conducting precommercial thinning in a conifer stand
Date:

Two personnel hammering a post into shallow water
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
road
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Two personnel hammering a post into shallow water
Date:

Robert M. Frank posing with a felled 250 year-old 18-inch dbh red spruce
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
logging
Organisms: red spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Robert M. Frank posing with a felled 250 year-old 18-inch dbh red spruce
Date:

Tom Skratt assessing brash failure in white spruce
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
damage
Organisms: white spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Tom Skratt assessing brash failure in white spruce
Date:

Arthur Hart debarking logs, peeling pulpwood with a bark spud
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: personnel
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Arthur Hart debarking logs, peeling pulpwood with a bark spud
Date:

Regeneration assessment in sample plot
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Regeneration assessment in sample plot
Date:

Conifer leader damage, ice and snow
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
damage
Organisms: pine
spruce
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Conifer leader damage, ice and snow
Date:

Eastern white pine regenerating under hardwoods
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: regeneration
Organisms: eastern white pine
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Eastern white pine regenerating under hardwoods
Date:

Road at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in winter
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: road
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Road at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in winter
Date:

Plot with wire cage, likely an animal exclosure
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: plot
regeneration
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Plot with wire cage, likely an animal exclosure
Date: