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A 40- to 60-year-old second growth stand of redwood and fir. Big River near Mendocino, California. Track is logging railroad of Mendocino Lumber Company. This growth extends over great area. Is thrifty. Trees measure over 20" in diameter and 90' high. E.F. April 1921. [Handwritten addendum to caption reads:] This later became the Big River Cutting Plot of 1923

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Title: A 40- to 60-year-old second growth stand of redwood and fir. Big River near Mendocino, California. Track is logging railroad of Mendocino Lumber Company. This growth extends over great area. Is thrifty. Trees measure over 20" in diameter and 90' high. E.F. April 1921. [Handwritten addendum to caption reads:] This later became the Big River Cutting Plot of 1923
Creator: Fritz, Emanuel
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Date Created and/or Issued: 1921
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bioscience & Natural Resources Library
Collection: Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection
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Description: Location: average distance
Identification: exact ground location unclear, appears unknowable
No people present in picture
Type: image
Identifier: fritz_metcalf-3841
Subject: Sequoia sempervirens - Second growth
Plots
Plots - Big River Cutting Plot
Plots - Cutting plots
University of California - Forestry - Experimental areas
Sequoia sempervirens
Railroads - Mendocino Lumber Company
Lumber companies - Mendocino Lumber Company
Mendocino County
Place: Mendocino County

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