Hard maple stand at Swan lake, Algonquin Park.

Hard maple stand at Swan lake, Algonquin Pk. (image 2)

Early attempts to plant old farm land now in "brush species" with red pine. Small tractor used to bare mineral soil. Larose Forest near Ottawa.

Clearcut in Weyerhaeuser tree farm, Snowqualmie, Washington.

Fertilizer spreader made at Larose Forest to apply nitrogen to N- deficient planted white spruce.

Manual thinning in very dense lodgepole pine, regenerated naturally after a fire. Hinton, Northwest Power & Pulp (now Weldwood).

Salvage of Douglas fir blown down, Nov, 1962. Harvesting in 1963. UBC Forest, Haney

Spring wildfire in open natural white pine. St.Williams. N.B. the mineral soil exposed. The forest floor in these Ontario forests is minimal, due to rapid decomposition.

Hot spot around white pine stump. St Williams. cf #53

Use of prescribed fire in Great Lakes-St Lawrence region to remove LF layer and prepare seedbed for yellow birch. Nr. Tweed. Photo by George Sinclair.