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History and Dynamics of a Ridgetop Pitch Pine Community, Mount Everett

• HF-ID: HF2002-37
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Motzkin, Glenn
  • Orwig, D.A.
  • Foster, D.R.

• Date: 2000 - 2004
• Location: Mount Washington MA
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Correspondence, payment records, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes, graphs. 1 file folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: off forest, conservation, management, old growth forests
• Abstract:
  • Investigation of the age structure and dynamics of the pitch pine-oak communities on the summit of Mt. Everett in the town of Mt. Washington, MA. The site provided an opportunity to compare the historical record with field evidence of disturbance and in order to evaluate the age structure and dynamics of a ridgetop pine barren on a site where fire and land-use history may have had minimal importance.
  • Report submitted to the Southern Taconic Research and Conservation Center September 2001.

• Related Items:
  • Harvard Forest Paper No. 25

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 14, drawer 1
• Access: Active