IMAGE
General view of Ames Creek clear-cutting Item Info
- Title:
- General view of Ames Creek clear-cutting
- Photographer:
- K.P. Davis
- Date Created:
- 1938-08-07
- Description:
- General view of Ames Creek clear-cutting with alternate western white pine shelterwood strips DCEF, Idaho. Cutting made in 1935. All merchantable meterial cut in clear-cut strips and the remainder felled and area broadcast burned in fall of 1936. In shelterwood strips about half the white pine volume was logged leaving about 20 M feet per acre. Trees of other species, mostly a hemlock understory, were removed in a stand improvement operation. Clear-cut strips are about 400 feet wide and shelterwood strips about 260 feet. Natural regeneration is expected. Taken 8-7-38.
- Location:
- Kootenai County Ames Creek Deception Creek Experiemental Forest
- Latitude:
- 47.73027778
- Longitude:
- -116.4888889
- Moscow Number:
- 738a
- Forest Service Number:
- 374088
- Source:
- The sources for the photos in this collection were as follows: Priest River Experimental Forest, Moscow Foresty Sciences Lab, USDA-Forest Service Region 1 archive, University of Montana Library Gisborne Collection, and Ms. Susan Marsh
- Source Identifier:
- DCEF_39
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "General view of Ames Creek clear-cutting", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav273.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material produced by the United States Forest Service and is in Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/