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A Comparison of the Shelterwood and Clearcutting Methods - A Progress Study of Three Cutting Plots on the Harvard Forest

• HF-ID: HF1935-03
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Duffield, John W.
  • Kraemer, John H.

• Associated Person:
  • Cline, Albert C.

• Date: 1934-1941
• Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), TS IX
• Media: Photographs and paper
• Contents:
  • Report (rough draft), plot records, black and white photos. 1 file folder.

• Keywords: shelterwood
• Abstract:
  • The Adams-Fay Lot, formerly owned by the New England Box Company and later incorporated into the Harvard Forest as Compartment IX of the Tom Swamp Block, offered an opportunity for the application of shelterwood methods to uniform stands of pine and hemlock on light soil.
  
  
  • This file ncludes notes on the establishment of two seedbeds on the two-cut shelterwood area of TS IX (Scarification Plots, experiment 34-2) from active research files.

• Related Items:
  • Historical photo file: HFH-0654 Growth of reproduction
  • Historical photo file: HFH-0655 Duffield and Kraemer study

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 3, drawer 2
• Access: Active