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Red pine thinning plots in PH VI

• HF-ID: HF1930-01
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Averill, Clarence C.
  • Borg, Robert M.
  • Frost, Lee M.
  • Goodell, Bertram C.
  • Hosley, Neil W.

• Associated Person:
  • Curtis, James D.

• Date: 1930, 1932, 1936
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest), PH VI
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Field data, graphs and reports. 1 file folder.

• Keywords: planted trees, silviculture
• Abstract:
  • This plantation was established in 1915 with 1-2 stock on an old mowing. By 1930 dead length was developing so rapidly that thinning was necessary. Three plots were laid out. One was left as a control; one was given a light thinning and one a medium thinning. In 1932 a heavy thinning plot was laid out and treated. In 1936 the three treated plots were thinned more heavily than in 1930.
  
  
  • Plots were destroyed by 1938 hurricane.

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