Will,
I read you clearly and understand. I do realize just how much time has
been spent in both locations. Just want to keep the mental door open to the
possibility of a new discovery. I'm also hyping up the upcoming excursion.
Being bitten by swarms of poor, half-starved mosquitos is good. Gotta think
positive. I'm also thinking about that big black rat snake (I think) I almost
put my hand on crawling up that big cherrybark oak as we waded hip-deep along
what was supposed to be a trail.
Bob
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From: "Will Blozan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bob,
To significantly raise the Rucker of the Smokies or Congaree will be a
monumental and likely impossible effort. Like Mohawk, the sites have been
sampled many, many times and the maximum index has been largely identified. I
need to calculate the R20 for Congaree.
Will F. Blozan
President, Eastern Native Tree Society
President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc.
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Subject: [ENTS] Re: Rucker Index Thoughts
Will, Ed
The Great Smokies are off the charts - simply off the charts. There is
no other forest in eastern North America that can touch that range of mountains
for tall trees: not other mountain sites in North Carolina, not even the high
index mountain forests of South Carolina that Jess has explored, not Savage
Gulf or Fall Creek Falls in Tennessee, and not Congaree NP in South Carolina,
unless our upcoming February trip uncovers high canopy forests with new record
holders that have thus far not been discovered. To make such a discovery would
be just as exciting a proposition as finding ever taller trees in the Smokies.
I look forward to Congaree in February. I'm just praying for a low mosquito
population at that time of year. God, I hate those little blooksuckers!
Bob
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From: "Will Blozan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ed,
Great thoughts. I support the reasoning for the R5 and R20 indices. If only
there was some way to incorporate the area needed to obtain a certain Rucker
Value. An R5 acre, R10 acre, R20 acre index?
Smokies R5 is 176.5
Smokies R20 is 156.6 (Jess, correct if I am missing something)
SpeciesHeight
Pinstr188.8
Liritul181.9
Tsugcan173.1
Robipsu171.8
Fraxame167.1
Platocc162.2
Carygla159.7
Aescfla157.3
Carycor156.3
Picerub155.3
Magnacc151.9
Querrub151.4
Tilihet150.4
Queralb147.1
Juglnig144.3
Acersac144.2
Fagugra142.6
Acerrub142.4
Quermon142.3
Liqusty142.3
R20=156.62
Will F. Blozan
President, Eastern Native Tree Society
President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc.
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