Hey, Bob, I think there should be a Noble Prize for "Tree Hugger of the Year". You'd probably get it more than once. You realize of course that such a title puts you at odds with the forestry/logging world- because they dislike tree huggers more than any other kind of person. After all, for them - trees are just a raw material for their more glorious "wood products".
Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:27 AM Subject: [ENTS] Rejuvenated White Pine Lists Will, Dale, Ed, et. al: I've begun sifting through my sizable white pine data database to organize a new listing of white pine sites in the Northeast that have trees meeting any of the following criteria: 1. Trees 12 feet or more in girth, 2. Trees 130 feet or more in height, 3. Trees that earn 1500 or more ENTS points [(Cir^2*Hgt)/10]. The list will include up to 3 trees per site: the tallest, the largest girth, and the highest point total. Where a particular tree fits more than one of those categories, the trees listed for the site will be fewer than 3. If a single tree at a site is the tallest and largest in girth, it will consequently earn the most points. The site would have only the single tree listed. I'll post the new white pine list to the ENTS list when completed. I hope you all and others will join me in maintaining the list. I think the criteria is exclusive enough to exclude sites that don't have significant trees. The challenge is to decide on what represents a separate site. Maybe we can think through a site definition criteria. As an example of what I find myself up against, fairly large properties like Mt Tom State Reservation, MTSF, MSF, etc. have clusters (sites?) of white pine that are sufficiently separated from one another to warrant separate treatment especially if thinking at the stand level. MTSF has at least 4 distinct pine areas and one could argue for more. However, it is convenient to think of MTSF as a single site. I constantly waffle on places like Mohawk. I'm sure Dale has the same concerns with Cook Forest State Park. How should we define a site? 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
