Bob, be forewarned- the clearcut monster has arrived at Windsor St. Forest. I went there a few weeks ago to view some of the state's whack jobs- apparently part of their effort to wipe out all red pine and Norway Spruce- which is just mind boggling- but, I won't get into the stupidity of it as doing so would be inappropriate for the ENTS list.
Joe PS: amazingly, these whack jobs are fully supported by the major enviro groups in this state- makes you wonder what's in the water or air causing such neural disorders <G> ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Cc: Rick VanDePoll ; Sam Stoddard ; Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Robert O'Connor ; David Govatski ; Robert Carr Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:55 PM Subject: [ENTS] Hopping around ENTS, On Saturday, after a program at the Bryant Homestead in Cummington, MA, my old friend Jack Sobon and I looked at a scattering of large white pines in Windsor State Forest. A big trailside pine measured 13.4 feet in circumference and 136.0 feet in height. It is a weevil pine, so its form is not especially pleasing. We also looked at two other large pines, one reaches 12.8 feet around and is 123.1 feet tall. The last is 12.3 feet around and 125.8 feet tall. It is actually in Cummington. Of the three, the last pine is by far the most handsome to my eye. The first two are contorted weevil-damaged trees. Nonetheless, the three big trees gives me a new site to investigate, i.e. Windsor SF. I've never spent much time there. There is a small amount of old growth located at two sites, but there may be some pretty decent trees along the feeder streams to the west branch of the Westfield River and along the ridges leading to the river. This morning, behind Monica's house, I remeasured a remarkable hop hornbeam. It has reached a height of 77.0 feet and a circumference of 3.9 feet. I'm recalculating the Broadbrook RI, which currently stands at 115.0 for approximately 100 acres. Lots to do. I'm still fiddling around with various criteria for white pine. Eventually I'll have a complete list of white pine sites meeting various criteria. Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
