Forest succession in the virgin Pisgah forest of southwestern New Hampshire
- HF-ID: HF1942-14
- Category: Research Files
- Creator:
- Cline, Albert C.
- Spurr, Stephen H.
- Date: 1942
- Location: Pisgah State Forest (NH)
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Data tables, manuscript drafts, HF Bulletin No. 21, correspondence, notes. 1 accordion folder.
- Keywords: disturbance, succession, plots, hemlock-book
- Abstract:
- Although the concept that forestry is planting pine still persists, we may look forward to a more general recognition of the importance of studying nature as a basis of silviculture. In developing new and better techniques for use in the days ahead, it is necessary that foresters gain a better understanding of the natural forces forever at work in the forest. The natural stand is the product of the effect of climate, site and other external influences upon a community of plants, each species of which reacts according to its own inherent characteristics. Such relationships can best be studied where man has not interfered.
- Thus, it was with the purpose of acquiring further knowledge of the original forests of central New England, and particularly of the successional and environmental relationships of the various associations found therein, that this study was undertaken. The few remnants of primeval forest which still exist are invaluable guides and deserve the most careful study. Such were the Pisgah Mountain old growth stands.
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- Archives Location: Middle Room, Pisgah file
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