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Looking through an opening cut in a paper birch stand (slope exposure S 45 W, gradient 26%) across a small valley to a poor black spruce muskeg forest (slope exposure N 25 E, gradient of 50%). Permafrost was encountered at a depth of 8 inch.

imageID: 29709
Description: Looking through an opening cut in a paper birch stand (slope exposure S 45 W, gradient 26%) across a small valley to a poor black spruce muskeg forest (slope exposure N 25 E, gradient of 50%). Permafrost was encountered at a depth of 8 inch.
Keywords: plant ecology
vegetation types
ecotypes
Photographer: Lutz, Harold J.
Original collection id: Oxford #: 187, negative #: 409
Original as submitted: 187_neg_407_409.tif
Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Location: Alaska; Fairbanks; Deadwood Creek
Date(mm/dd/yyyy): 6/27/1957
Citation: Use of this image is governed by Creative Commons CC BY. If you use the image, please include the following citation:

Wright, Brenda E.; Plumb, Pauline; Wright, John; Biles, Frances E. 2021. Historical photographs from U.S. Forest Service research and development activities in Alaska. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2021-0084


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