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Item information

Title:
Harvesting thinned trees for pulpwood
Description:
Transcribed from back: Farm Forestry Series [#452] By R.W. Graeber, Extension Forester; Pulp wood cut from a timber thinning demonstration on farm of J. Claude Barber, Rowan County. Only the crippled and over-crowded trees were taken, leaving the better trees for a future crop of high class timber.
Topics:
Community and Extension
Forestry
Subjects:
Forest management
Forest thinning
Pulpwood
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ua023_007-008-bx0036-003-018
Photographer:
Graeber, R. W. (Robert Walter), 1888-1967 more info on Graeber, R. W. (Robert Walter), 1888-1967 
Created Date:
Location:
Rowan County (N.C.)
Digital Project:
University Archives Photographs