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Second Growth Redwood Cutting Experiment, Project #688, Big River, Mendocino County, California. End of a log of tree #34" in diameter. Showing wide rings and large percentage of sap wood. In this case being 2 1/4" wide. The fastest growing trees proved to have the widest rings of sap. This cut was made 16 feet above the ground and the age was 49 years. L. F. Kellogg

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Title: Second Growth Redwood Cutting Experiment, Project #688, Big River, Mendocino County, California. End of a log of tree #34" in diameter. Showing wide rings and large percentage of sap wood. In this case being 2 1/4" wide. The fastest growing trees proved to have the widest rings of sap. This cut was made 16 feet above the ground and the age was 49 years. L. F. Kellogg
Creator: Kellogg, L. F
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Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bioscience & Natural Resources Library
Collection: Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection
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Description: Location: close study
Identification: exact ground location unclear, appears unknowable
No people present in picture
Type: image
Identifier: fritz_metcalf-5263
Subject: University of California - Forestry - Experimental areas
Studies - Redwood Project #688
Studies - Redwood cutting experiments
Sequoia sempervirens - Second growth
Plots - Big River
Plots - Cutting plots
Plots
Sequoia sempervirens - Logs
Annual rings
Sequoia sempervirens - Growth
Sequoia sempervirens
Studies - Sequoia sempervirens
Mendocino County
Place: Mendocino County

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