Bob, Congratulations on finding another tall pine over 140. I have been thinking about how to deal with Rucker Indexes along the lines Jess suggested - i.e. plotting a rucker height index on a graph versus increasing area. I am wondering if it would be appropriate when comparing rucker indexes of sites within a larger area such as the Connecticut River Valley with the area of the valley itself or whether it would be better to just compare the individual sites to the composite area of the patches included in the overall rucker index? What I am saying is that much of the area of the valley contribute nothing to the rucker index as it has been cut over and farmed again and again, so should these non-contributing areas be included in the rucker index area of valley as a whole? Since the measurements are made from a patch of sites here and there, should not the area for the valley just consider the area of those patches.
I have been talking to Dale about compiling a species profile for the Clarion River corridor (defining it to basically just include the flood plains and flats, rather than the entire drainage basin). If all of the species were listed in a single table along with the heights of the tallest ( or fattest) examples of those species, then you could more easily see what gaps there were in the information, what trees were missing, or represented by undersized specimens, etc. I should have did this before my river trip Thursday with Carl, and I know I would have grabbed some measurements of trees, which were unspectacular in terms of Cook Forest, but would have contributed to the Clarion River corridor. This is something that should be considered for other broader reaches which are initially a composite of pieces of other sites. The main problem with the Clarion River stuff is that Dale has all of the data, so any scheme I come up with, means more work for poor Dale. Ed Frank Join me in the Eastern Native Tree Society at http://www.nativetreesociety.org and in the Primal Forests - Ancient Trees Community at: http://primalforests.ning.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
