Trees -- Maine -- Research

Scope and Contents

Various miscellaneous material on chemical girding and debarking of trees research conducted by the University of Maine, 1951-1956. Including Maine Extension publications authored by Lewis P. Bissell, Extension Forestry Specialist, reference material, correspondence regarding the research, and photographs of the chemical girding and debarking of trees.

Scope and Contents The collection contains various notebooks of information compiled by Fay Hyland. The earliest volume contains class notes taken in 1923, presumably at Michigan State University. Three notebooks from 1933, 1934, and 1937-1938 record trees and other plants observed in various places in Maine. Another notebook contains information about experiments carried out by Hyland in Cambridge, Mass. in 1939 as well as information on experiments conducted in 1940. The final volume in the collection...

Scope and Contents The records mainly contain textual information created and curated by Richard J. Campana, who was a University of Maine Botany and Plant Pathology professor, but there are also photographs of Campana, slides, research tools, graphs, charts, and cartographic materials. The record series Biographical Information contains information regarding educational background, resumes, past achievements, awards, and personal correspondence of Campana. The record series Research...

Abstract

Records from Trask's roles as a student a the University of Maine and the Yale School of Forestry and writings related to Trask's career as a silviculturist with the United States Forest Service.