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Ficure 13.-A, The Lick Creek timber sale on the Bitterroot National Forest in 1909 shortly after logging. B, The same 
area 39 years later. The Lick Creek sale is notable as the first large-scale selective cutting operation my Montana. ot 
was one of the early attempts to cope with the difficult silvicultural problems found in a forest with a high proportion 
of overmature timber. 
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