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Northeastern Forest Soils Conference - Massachusetts 2002

Monday, August 26, 2002 - Sites at Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts

Julian Hadley (Harvard Forest) discusses carbon dioxide research at Harvard Forest.     Scaffolding at Julian Hadley's study site.     Audrey Barker Plotkin (far left) discusses hemlock site history at Harvard Forest.     Sunapee spodosal in Harvard Forest.

Soil warming study - slab city tract.     Soil warming study control plot.     Al Averill (NRCS) textures the Charlton soil in the pit.

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - Sites at Quabbin Reservoir, New Salem, Massachusetts

Weir at hemlock site in Quabbin.     Paul Barten (UMASS) explains watershed management study at Shays Brook in Quabbin Reservoir.     Paul Barten (UMASS) discusses weather station at Quabbin Reservoir.     Paul Barten (UMASS) at weather station in Quabbin.

Avril de la Cretaz (UMASS) discusses hay-scented fern research.     Hay-scented fern at Quabbin site.     Cut fern seedlings at Quabbin site.     Al Averill (NRCS) in the soil compaction study pit.

Soil scientists study Montauk soil in the soil compaction study pit.     Soil scientists examine Montauk soil in the soil compaction study pit.     Al Averill (NRCS, at far end of the pit) leads group in an examination of the Montauk series in the Quabbin.

Photographs by Nancy Roskiewicz Finn, USDA-NRCS, Amherst, MA.

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