An Attempt to Kill Hardwood Sprouts by Copper Nails
- HF-ID: HF1949-09
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Carr, J.A.
- Date: 1949
- Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest), PH IV
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Report on experiment with map and diagram of plots.
- NOTE: During the 2017 Archive Renovations mice damaged the file folder. NO DATA WAS LOST OR DAMAGED. The file folder was replaced. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: silviculture, botany
- Abstract:
- The failure of white pine to reproduce itself due to the hardwood advancement into the white pine cut-over lands. Many methods have been used in an attempt to kill off the hardwoods in order to give the seedling pines a chance to survive. In some stands, weedings have been made many times but the hardwood root sprouts have persisted to choke pine growth. Poisons of various descriptions have been used, some with success, some without, but the danger in this procedure is in the resulting effect on the forest soil. The copper nail method may be classified with the poisons inasmuch as nay damage done will be due to the decomposition of the introduced copper metal into soluble copper compound.
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