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Natural reproduction following the hurricane of 1938

• HF-ID: HF1942-01
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Baldwin, Henry I.
  • Brake, Ralph W.
  • Post, Howard A.
  • Spurr, Stephen H.

• Date: 1938-1942
• Location: Fox Research Forest (Hillsboro NH), Harvard Forest, Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), Yale Forest (Keene NH)
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Reports, manuscripts, data, correspondence. 1 accordion folder.
  
  
  • Folder 1: Hurricane Salvage – 1938.
  • Description of Brake and Post study of the natural restocking of hurricane blowdowns in Central New England by A. C. Cline, 1942; NETSA forms; map (New England “Blowdown” Timber and Forest Fire Hazard=NE 5.11); correspondence.
  
  
  • Folder 2: Post-hurricane Manuscript.
  • Typewritten draft of Natural Restocking Following the New England Hurricane of 1938 by S. H. Spurr with annotations by A.C. Cline; map, data sheets (Experiment No. 40-1), notes, manuscript.
  
  
  • Folder 3: Natural Reproduction Study, Baldwin, H.I. and Fox Forest.
  • Map of Fox Research Forest (Hillsboro NH), notes, data sheets, correspondence.
  
  
  • Folder 4: Natural Reproduction Study, Cases 1-20.
  • Data sheets.
  
  
  • Folder 5: Natural Reproduction Study, Plans of Study.
  • Study proposal by S. H. Spurr, 1942.
  
  
  • Folder 6: Natural Reproduction Study, 1941 data.
  
  
  • Folder 7: Natural Reproduction Study, Student Work on T.S. III, 1942.
  • Project outline, tables, maps (TS III soil types, 1937; TS III type map, 1942).
  
  
  • Folder 7: Harvard Forest Permanent Sample Plots.
  • Data sheets.
  
  
  • Folder 8: Natural Reproduction Study, 1942 Plots.
  • Includes hand drawn maps with soil and stand types, data sheets
  
  
  • Folder 9: The Yale Forest, Keene, N. H.
  • Includes printed 1940 map of the Yale Forest, handwritten list of soils.

• Keywords: off forest, hurricane damage, regeneration
• Abstract:
  • Studies of natural restocking in and around the Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts, during the 10-year period following the hurricane of September 21, 1938, have yielded information on successional trends on hurricane blowdown areas. Four surveys of restocking were made in 1941-42 involving a total of 4,370 mil-acre quadrats. In addition, 14 permanent sample plots, mostly 0.1 acre in size, were tallied at intervals from 1940 through 1948.
  
  
  • (Exp. 40-1)

• Related Items:
  • Publication: Natural restocking of forests following the 1938 hurricane in central New England
  • Thesis: Natural restocking of hurricane damaged old field white pine areas in north central Massachusetts
  • Map: NE5.11 Blowdown Timber and Forest Fire Hazard

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