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North Reservoir, Middlesex Fells tree cores

HF-ID: HFS2025-01
Category: Research Samples
Creator:
- Oswald, Wyatt
Date: 2022
Location: Winchester MA
Media: Samples - tree cores
Contents:
- 5 mounted tree cores.
- N.Res 1, N.Res 8, N.Res 11, N.Res 15, N.Res 23.
Keywords: forest dynamics, human disturbance, land use, tree rings
Abstract:
- The draining of a reservoir in eastern Massachusetts for dam repairs revealed dozens of stumps and several segments of stone walls. We mapped and measured the diameters of all stumps in a 0.1-ha study plot and collected and analyzed tree-ring and wood-anatomy samples from 5 of the stumps.
Archives Location: Sample Archive, Bay 1, Stack 1, Shelf 7
Access: Active
Disposal Notes: Review in 5 years (2029).