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Disposal of overdense hemlock reproduction from under a 140-year-old shelterwood of western white pine, Sands Creek, Deception Creek Experimental Forest, Idaho. About 65 or 70 years ago a light ground fire evidently went through this particular area killing only a portion of the stand. The stand was opened up sufficiently, however, to let in natural reproduction in great abundance. Although western white pine seedlings also became established, the shelterwood was too dense to permit their subsequent development and they were choked out by the more tolerant hemlock reproduction. The resultant tangle of stagnated hemlock-literally dog-hair thick-was given up as hopeless and is as shown in this view being cut out to try to get new reproduction of pine. This is an example of what can happen in partial cuttings in the western white pine type if the shelterwood is not removed in time. Taken 8-6-38.
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Title:
Disposal of overdense hemlock reproduction from under a 140-year-old shelterwood of western white pine [01]
Photographer:
K.P. Davis
Date Created:
1938-08-06
Description:
Disposal of overdense hemlock reproduction from under a 140-year-old shelterwood of western white pine, Sands Creek, Deception Creek Experimental Forest, Idaho. About 65 or 70 years ago a light ground fire evidently went through this particular area killing only a portion of the stand. The stand was opened up sufficiently, however, to let in natural reproduction in great abundance. Although western white pine seedlings also became established, the shelterwood was too dense to permit their subsequent development and they were choked out by the more tolerant hemlock reproduction. The resultant tangle of stagnated hemlock-literally dog-hair thick-was given up as hopeless and is as shown in this view being cut out to try to get new reproduction of pine. This is an example of what can happen in partial cuttings in the western white pine type if the shelterwood is not removed in time. Taken 8-6-38.
Location:
Kootenai County Deception Creek Experimental Forest Sands Creek
Latitude:
47.7225
Longitude:
-116.4944444
Moscow Number:
1395
Forest Service Number:
374095
Source:
The sources for the photos in this collection were as follows: Priest River Experimental Forest, Moscow Foresty Sciences Lab, USDA-Forest Service Region 1 archive, University of Montana Library Gisborne Collection, and Ms. Susan Marsh
Source Identifier:
SandsCk13
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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"Disposal of overdense hemlock reproduction from under a 140-year-old shelterwood of western white pine [01]", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav764.html
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Material produced by the United States Forest Service and is in Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
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