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• Aesthetic Thinning - Some Techniques and Costs. 1964-1968
• The Application of Biological and Economic Considerations of Two Tracts in Tom Swamp IV. 1947
• Assay of biodiversity and rates of regrowth in a clear cut red pine plantation at the Harvard Forest. 1992
• An Attempt to Kill Hardwood Sprouts by Copper Nails. 1949
• Austin Cary File. 1898-1935
• Black walnut propagation on Prospect Hill. 1940
• Botany and its Applications at Harvard. 1945
• A Brief Study of Land Use Based on Field Observations. 1948
• Budding as a silvicultural technique. 1948
• A Budgetary Analysis Method for Farm Woodlands in Hardwick. 1942
• Case #7, 30 year report, Part I; TS I, Hd-5. 1946
• Catalog of Representative Operations on the Harvard Forest. 1924
• Causes for success and failure in pine plantations in 1912 in Petersham, Massachusetts. 1912
• Causes of success and failure on white pine plantations. 1911
• Characterization of a clear-cut recovery: Spouting versus non-sprouting trees and species. 2005
• Chemical (2-4-D, 2-4-5-T) control of hardwood growth, Prospect Hill IV. 1952
• Clear cutting vs. selective cutting: a study of forest response to timber cutting methods in western Massachusetts. 2005
• Cline and Steed Data Cards: Adams-Fay, Ella Streeter, and Baker Lots. 1925
• Co-Exp 35-2 Sprout Stool Height Study. 1935-1960
• Collaborative Research: Assessing the potential for and consequences of an 'incidental' protective mutualism between an invasive herbivore and native plant. 2007
• Comments on "A Method of Reclaiming Severely Weeviled White Pine Plantations". 1931
• Comments on "Forest Weeding". 1929
• A comparative study of several sets of aerial photographs used for forest photo-interpretation. 1949
• A Comparison Between the Growth of Red Pine in the Harvard Forest and Scotch Pine in Germany with Some Remarks About the Silviculture and Utilization of Both Species in Their Native Countries. 1949
• A Comparison of the Forest Types and the Forest Cover Types of the Eastern United States as Listed by the Society of American Foresters for Tom Swamp VIII. 1948
• A comparison of the form, volume and general conditions of white pine when grown in pure stands and in stands of hardwood mixture. 1912
• A comparison of the Massachusetts volume table for white pine with the yield of pine in Petersham: a study of the effects of forks on volume. 1912
• A Comparison of the Shelterwood and Clearcutting Methods - A Progress Study of Three Cutting Plots on the Harvard Forest. (Tom Swamp IX includes carification experiment 34-2 from active research files). 1934-1941
• Conditions on the 1910-1911 cutting operations in Tom Swamp III. 1913
• Conditions on the 1910-1911 cutting operations in Tom Swamp IV. 1913
• Conversion of mixed coppice into sawtimber. 1941
• Cooperative sample plots, Brown-Spooner, E. Murdock Co.. 1923-1924
• Cooperative sample plots, Ella Streeter Lot, E. Murdock Co.. 1923
• Correspondence of P. R. Gast with H. Hesselman--concerning effect of overstory on litter decomposition. 1937
• Correspondence regarding 1938 hurricane and its aftereffects. 1939
• Correspondence with European foresters on the silviculture of mixed stands. 1923-1924
• Correspondence with Harvard University (E.D. Merrill) regarding 1938 hurricane and its aftereffects. 1939
• Course Notes and Field Notebooks. 1899-1914
• Crown development and basal area growth of red oak and white ash. 1948
• Cruise and Management Plan of the Blake Tract of the Hollingsworth and Whitney Company. 1947-1949
• Cuba and Honduras: Notes on reforestation in tropical America. 1949
• Cut-over old field pine stands in central New England: a regional study of the composition and stocking of the volunteer stands. 1935
• Cuts used in Harvard Forest Bulletin No. 1, "The Management of the Harvard Forest". 1921
• Dendrometer Experiment. 1949-1950
• Dendrometer measurements on a hardwood stand, Tom Swamp IV. 1948-1949
• Description of conditions and operations on Compartment II, Meadow Water Tract, from 1908 through 1912. 1908-1912
• Descriptions of the forest operations on the Adams-Fay Lot (TS IX). 1924
• A Discussion of the Ecology and Silviculture of the Mixed Hardwood Stand Tom Swamp I, P.-Hd.-3 North. 1947
• Disposal of slash on cut-over white pine areas in relation to forest management. 1910
• Dudley Lot reports. 1912
• Eastern hemlock and its relationship to the silviculture of the Harvard Forest. 1950
• Ecological forest management, GIS implementation, Forest sector of Russian economy, Forest history. 1993
• Economic possibilities of farm-forestry in Hardwick Massachusetts. 1942
• The economic possibilities of forestry for wood-using industries in central New England. 1931
• Economic problems of managing small woodland holdings in New England. 1950
• An economic research project to determine the input-output relationships in growing and harvesting forest crops. 1950
• Effect of forest composition on soil development. 1940
• Effectiveness of basal sprays in weeding forest stands (formerly Exp. 52-1, Active Research files). 1952
• Effects of fertilizers on tree growth, root distribution, and soil properties (formerly Exp. 69-1, 69-2, Active Research files). 1969
• Effects of Pruning on Red Pine (Prospect Hill III, Exp. 53-1). 1953
• Effects of releasing, Tallow Hill. 1924-1925
• The effects of silviculture. 1984
• The efficiency of scarification under white pine, TS IX. 1927
• Energy from forests. 1951
• Estimate and logging report of the Woolsey-Brooks Lot, Petersham. 1913
• Estimate of timber on Tom Swamp IV. 1909
• An exercise in inventory data collection for Tom Swamp X. 1966
• Exp. 45-1 Dendrometer Measurement of Thinning Effectiveness.. 1945-1948
• Experiment in pruning volunteer white pine on light soil, TS IX. 1930
• An Experimental Low Thinning in a Young Hardwood Stand. Includes Resampling of Permanently Established Plots (Formerly Exp. 56-2 in Active Research Files). 1956-1987
• Experimental plantings using the A.B. Hatch fertilized pot method of white pine seedlings. 1934
• Factors controlling the quality of the second-growth white pine in New England. 1921
• The factors of site and their relationship to timber production. 1912
• The farm woodlots of the town of Hardwick, Massachusetts. 1938
• Field notebook, includes thesis notes. 1909
• Field propagation of poplar cuttings, PH III and IV. 1944
• Fifty Years of Management at the Harvard Forest. 1909-1959
• First year results of plantations in New England. 1912
• Forest description and history of the Smith-Beaman Lot, Petersham, Ma. 1931
• Forest Management Alternatives for 3 Landowners in Central MA. 1947
• Forest Management correspondence. 1923-1925
• Forest site conditions and the gypsy moth. 1944
• A forest study on Massachusetts sprout chestnut. 1910
• Forest taxation in New Hampshire. 1951
• A Forest Working Plan of a Tract of woods in the Town of Bedford Massachusetts. 1904
• Forestry 6: Outline for the Preparation of Reports on Lumbering Operations. (Possibly from Fisher collection). 1920
• Forestry in Transition. Proceedings of the Winter Meeting--The New England Section of the Society of American Foresters. 1953
• The form and development of white ash, TS II. 1941
• Form and development of white pine stands in relation to growing space. 1928
• The general relationship of plants, animals, and geomorphic processes in time and space. 1951
• Growth and yield of white ash and red oak. 1922
• A growth model for red oak in New England. 1983
• The growth of hemlock before and after release from suppression. 1927
• Growth of spruce in a peat bog, PH VII. 1913
• Growth of white pine in hardwood stands, Tom Swamp. 1980
• Growth study of red pine in thinned and unthinned stands, Plantation 26-N, Prospect Hill I. 1948
• Hardwood thinning, stand records, and stand maps of the L-Plot, TS II. 1929
• A Harvard College conference on silviculture. 1952
• The Harvard Forest. 1912
• Harvard Forest history: reports and manuscripts. 1898-1933
• The Harvard Forest inventory of 1956 as an information - decision system. 1956
• Harvard Forest Models - Silvicultural Dioramas. 1936
• Harvard Forest Silvicultural Models - Negatives. 1944
• Harvard Forest Thirty-year Progress Report. 1946
• Harvard's forests: a volume in honor of Hugh M. Raup. 1965-1969
• Hemlock Forest Microclimates and their Effects on Hemlock Regeneration. 2004
• Historical materials relating to the Northeastern Forest Soils conferences, 1939-1975. 1939-1975
• A history of the forests of Cape Cod. 1937-1941
• History of Treatment, 1942; TS V, P-Hd-3. 1942
• History of Treatment, TS IV, Hd-2. 1914-1938
• History of Treatment; TS I, P-Hd-3. 1912
• History, analysis and proposed treatment for a mixed hardwood stand at the Harvard Forest. 1977
• Hogging Slash and Small Saplings. 1946
• HWA proposal to Massachusetts Environmental Trust. 2004
• The illusion of preservation. 1998-2003
• Illustration from The Federal Land Bank of Springfield newsletter to accompany article "How to get more out of your woods". 1939
• The Immediate Response of Red Pine to Thinning and Pruning. 1945-1950
• The immediate response of red pine to thinning and pruning, Tom Swamp IX. 1944-1947
• Improvement work; SC V. 1923
• Incorporation of Spatially Explicit Forest Harvesting Patterns into Conservation Planning for Matrix Forests, Biodiversity, and Invasive Plants in the Eastern U.S. 2003-2005
• Individual and stand level studies of two conifer plantations at Harvard Forest. 1988
• Intermediate cuttings in even-aged mixed hardwood (Tom Swamp I) with special reference to thinning: 50 years data. 1978
• Intermediate cuttings in even-aged mixed hardwood with special reference to thinning. Includes plots remeasured in 1963, 1978 (formerly Exp. 33-1, Active Research files). 1933
• The Interrelationships of Soils, Silviculture, and Land-use History to Forest Types and Stand Composition, Tom Swamp III. 1947
• An inventory and historical analysis of Tom's Swamp 27-E and 27-G. 1984
• An investigation into the financial aspects of silvicultural thinning. 1950
• Investigations of the results on white pine of the removal of a hardwood overstory and shading of gray birch to prevent sprouting. 1914
• IRAM - Model of Forest Growth and Harvesting. 1978-1981
• Journal of work at the Harvard Forest,1940. 1940
• Land Use History of Natural Stand. 1947
• Landscape enhancement and timber production, USDA Grant. 1970
• Lecture notes on principles of forestry, forestry 1 and 2, forest valuation, forest management, silviculture, etc. 1904-1922
• The life history of poplar in central Massachusetts. 1910
• Logging report for the Blair Lot, Petersham, Massachusetts. 1913
• Logging report for the Blank Lot, Petersham, Massachusetts. 1911
• Logging report for the Cutler Lot, Petersham. 1913
• Long-run yields of forest products. 1950
• The management of a small forest for a sustained yield: the Petersham town forest. 1926
• Management of forest land for black bears. 1984
• Management of red oak and white ash with special reference to thinning. 1933
• Management Proposal for White Spruce-Red Pine Planatations, PHI Proposal. 1942
• Manuscript for taped talk accompanying Harvard Forest models in Fisher. 1970
• The Marketing and Utilization of Wood Products at the Harvard Forest. 1948
• Massachusetts Forest Laws - E. M. Gould, Jr.. 1983
• Measuring diameter increase in young hardwood with a dial gauge micrometer caliper. 1947
• Memorandum Concerning the Gould Farm Woodlot. 1945
• Memorandum on weeding and thinning hardwood. 1940
• Methods and Results of Planting of Dunes on the Western Coast of France. 1905
• Miscellaneous Owners: Expectations and Reality. Rural Development, July 1975. 1975
• The natural development of a mixed hardwood stand and implications for management of woodlots. 1980
• New England attitudes and perceptions towards some aspects of forest management: the results of a questionnaire. 1973
• A new outlook for the woodlot owner. Written for Old Farmer's Almanac. 1936
• North Quabbin forest cutting MS and correspondence. 1995-2002
• North Quabbin project update files. 2002
• Northeast Conference on Non-industrial Private Forestry. 1979
• Northeast's Changing Forest. 1999
• Notes and impressions on forestry and land-use in Europe. 1973
• Notes on history of forestry in New England. Compiled by "Richard" (last name unknown). 1937
• Notes on the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory, Cuba--reports from 1949 and 1952 visits. 1949-1952
• Notes on the use and natural occurrence of vegetative propagation of forest trees. 1952
• Notes on U.S. Forest History and European Forest History, including Silviculture Systems (probably represents Yale Class notes). 1901-1902
• The obligations of silviculture to logging. 1947
• The operating problems of small woodland owners in New England. 1952
• Operations in Slab City II, IV, and V : 1912-1913. 1912-1913
• P-HD-5 Tom Swamp Tract Compartment I, Harvard Forest. 1947
• Pine-Hardwood 5, Tom Swamp I. 1947
• Plan for research in the utilization of New England pine. Project proposal and correspondence. 1931
• Planting plan for Slab City VI, VIII, and X. 1912
• A preliminary study of the effect of ground cover types on white pine reproduction in group selection cuttings; SC IX. 1933
• Present condition of the cut-over areas in Tom Swamp Ib. 1912
• Price List on New England Forest Products. 1929
• Production of high quality white pine by partial suppression (formerly Co-Exp. 41-2, Active Research files). 1941
• A Progress Report on Hurricane Blowdowns and Silviculture, Tom Swamp VI. 1950-1951
• Pruning and topping plot, Prospect Hill VI. 1931
• Pruning experiment in Norway Spruce, PH V, plantation 16-D. 1936
• Pruning, PH I. 1930
• Quality and growth of white pine in central and northern New England as influenced by density, site, and associated species. 1923
• The reclamation and management of New England woodlots. 1980
• Reclamation of weeviled white pine; SC I, PH I and VI (formerly Exp. 30-1, Active Research files). 1930
• Reconstruction of an area in Slab City X. 1981
• Record of trees removed from sample plot A, Tom Swamp I. 1908
• Record units in cut portion prior to cutting, Exp. 56-2, TS I. 1956
• Records of Sample Plot F, on thinning white pine in SC II. 1913
• Red pine pruning experiment, PH III. 1936
• Red pine thinning plots in PH VI. 1930
• The regeneration of white pine following four cutting regimes in central New England. 1920
• The regrowth of hardwood sprouts resulting from repeated weedings. 1930
• The Relation of Hardwood Crown Development to Thinning During the First and Second Growing Seasons After Treatment. 1948-1949
• The relation of tree development to the timing of the first thinning in even-aged hardwood stands. 1947
• The relation of white pine slash to the development of reproduction on clear cut areas. 1926
• The release of eastern hemlock by the death of American chestnut on Prospect Hill IV. 1948
• Release of white pine following thinning on Tom Swamp IV. 1908
• Releasing - thinning; TS V, central portion, north of cross road. 1909-1910
• Releasing volunteer white pine, PH I. 1919
• Releasing, Harvard Forest. 1925
• Releasing, TS VI. 1915
• Releasing; SC X, P-1. 1925
• Releasing; TS VI, P-1, along V-VI Road. 1915
• A Report on 8.8 Acres Located in Tom Swamp III. 1947
• Report on cordwood cutting and improvement cuttings in the western portion of northeast Prospect Hill (PH II and PH VIII). 1909
• Report on operations and management of white pine. 1910
• A report on some of the forest plantations of Massachusetts. 1920
• Report on strip cutting in Tom Swamp III. 1912
• Report on the present condition of the cut-over hardwood lands in Meadow Water Tract IV and V. Second Report on a Certain Portion of Meadow Water Tract IV, V, and VI. 1912
• Report on thinned areas, Meadow Water III, IV, and V. 1912
• Report on Tom Swamp I, P-Hd-3 South. 1947
• Report upon the cordwood cuttings of the Prospect Hill tract and the effect upon reproduction. 1912
• Reports on research at Harvard Forest 1949-1956. 1949-1956
• Reports on the Dudley Lot. 1913
• Reproduction improvement with foliage sprays of 2-4-5-T (formerly Exp. 58-1, Active Research files). 1958
• The reproduction of white ash in Petersham. 1912
• Reproduction on the areas cut in 1911-1912: Tom Swamp I, III, IV, V. 1913
• Research at the Harvard Forest. 1907-1945
• Results of the first thirty years experimentation in silviculture at the Harvard Forest. 1917-1947
• Richard Thornton Fisher 1876-1934. Selections from his publications with a memorial biography by Henry James. 1985
• Salvage harvesting policies after natural disturbance. 2004
• Sample and control plots A, Tom Swamp I. 1911
• Sample plots of volunteer stands in Prospect Hill and Slab City tracts. 1944
• Schwarz Tract - Stand Records. 1929-2022
• Second growth white pine tables. 1905
• Selection Cutting, Petawawa Experimental Forest. 1944
• Several off-forest thinnings and release cuttings in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 1923
• Shade and other influences in plantation success in Petersham. 1913
• Shelterwood cut-oak regeneration studies. 1982
• Silvical report on white pine. 1909
• Silvical study of the white ash. 1910
• Silvics in 300 B.C. - Theophrastus' inquiry into plants. 1950
• Silvicultural aids in the control of the gypsy moth on watershed forests. Presentation at meeting of New England Water Works Association. 1937
• Silvicultural methods. 1911
• A silvicultural plan for the management of red oak in Central New England. 1950
• Silvicultural report on the logging operations of 1910-1911: PH I, III, IV, V. 1913
• Silvicultural report, Tom Swamp I. 1912
• Silvicultural results of thinning on Tom Swamp I. 1912
• A silvicultural study and management plan for Tom Swamp III. 1942
• Silviculture Study of Tom Swamp VI. 1948
• Silviculture, Land-use history and Vegetation of a Mixed Hardwood Stand. 1923-1948
• Site Index for Red Oak Compiled to Classify the Harvard Forest Soils. 1949
• The Small Lumber Company: A Look to the Future. 1961
• Some Aspects of Forestry in New England. 1955
• Spacing experiment, PH III, P-8, 16-C. 1935
• Stand Composition in the Harvard Forest as Influenced by Site and Forest Management. 1946-1950
• Stand Inspection and History of a Treated and a Control Hardwood Stand, Tom Swamp IV. 1949
• Stand X - Need of release, Dudley Lot. 1923
• A statistical forest survey of seven towns in central Massachusetts: Winchendon, Erving, Petersham, Warwick, Orange, Northfield, and Royalston. 1923
• Student reports on timber production on the Middlesex Falls Lot. 1922
• Studies in bole form of White Pine: Relation between form point and form class. 1925
• A study of artificial forest pruning in white pine plantations. 1934
• A Study of P-Hd-3, Tom Swamp V. 1947
• A Study of the Possibilities of a Red Maple Sprout Stand - 21 Years Old. 1949
• Study of the spruce plantations. Case III. 1947
• A study to develop a computer program (HUFFS) for forest management - Simulation. 1964
• Stump poisoning experiment. 1926
• A suggestion for the study of the growth rate of understocked stands. 1926
• Summary of field methods for artificial pruning. 1926
• Summary of research and other activities at the Harvard Forest 1907-1936. 1907-1936
• Sustained yield management and its theory. 1938
• Teak (Tectona grandis L.f): Its distribution, silviculture, selection and utilization. 1951
• A test of goal programming on the Killkenny management unit, White Mountain National Forest. 1975
• Thinking in Forest Time: A Strategy for the Massachusetts Forest. 1999
• Thinning and improvement cuttings, Petawawa Experimental Forest. 1918-1941
• Thinning of hardwood stand to encourage white ash and underplanting stand with Norway spruce (formerly Exp. 62-1, Active Research files). 1962
• Thinning white pine on the Brown-Spooner Lot of the E. Murdock Company. 1923
• Thinning, PH II, Ex 43-1. 1944
• Timber harvest scheduling and spatial allocation in Elliotsville, Maine using the IRAM model and mapping analysis package. 1981
• Time and cost in growing, harvesting, and processing wood products. 1947
• Tom Swamp IV (Hardwoods 2). 1947
• Treated area and control in Sample Plot A, Tom Swamp I. 1910
• A Two-year Dendrometer Experiment on White Pine, Prospect Hill II, 24D. 1949-1950
• The Uprooting of Trees: A Forest Process and Research in the Biological Aspects of Forest Production. 1955
• USDA proposal: Contribution of Massachusetts' Old-growth Forests to Surface-Water Quality and Aquatic Biodiversity. 2004-2006
• Use of American species in European forestry. 1905
• Utilization material, including 1949 white ash report and 1950 mixed load data. 1950
• Valsa canker (Cytospora) control experiments - effect of fertilizers, inoculum and thinning (formerly Exp. 36-2, 36-4, 37-3, Active Research files). 1937
• Volume and form measurements of chestnut. 1909
• Weeding volunteer white pine, TS II. 1915
• Weeding Young Hardwood Stands with Specific Reference to Coppice Conversion, Prospect Hill VIII. 1947
• White Ash Seedlings and Sprouts. 1912
• White pine and hemlock shelterwood reproduction (formerly Exp. 34-3, Active Research files). 1940
• White pine seedling reproduction study. 1915
• White pine spacing experiment, plantation 16-C, PH III. 1916-1936
• White Pine Thinning Experiment (Prospect Hill IX - Exp. 63-1). 1963
• White pine thinning records, including diameters, heights, and ground cover for Plot B, Tom Swamp VI (1908-1913). 1908-1913
• White pine timber report, Slab City VII. 1912
• The Woodlot. 1984
• The Woodlot - includes Fisher's Miscellaneous Woodlot Examinations--part forms background for Graves and Fisher's 1903 publication on the woodlot. Copy of USDA Bureau of Forestry Bulletin No. 42 included. 1902-1993
• Woodlot estimates from various consulting jobs. 1918
• Work on pine release on the Crossett Lumber Company, including a description of the company. 1911
• Working plan for the Slab City Tract. 1910
• Writings on forest aesthetics - landscape history of New England, modern views of forest aesthetics and the role of forest management. 1970
• A written account of a motor tour of eastern United States lumber companies (no date). 1996