Will, When you search the online version of the database, http://www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/register.php both trees are listed in the search results. With the tree with the erroneous spread from NJ being the champion and the newer of the entries. You are right, the pdf file I downloaded of the 2008 registry shows the Indiana tree as the champion. Even if the spread of the NJ Northern Catalpa was 100 feet, it would still only have 343 points, far smaller point-wise than the Indiana specimen. The online searchable version includes specimens submitted since the compilation of the 2008 pdf. For example the Dotted Hawthorn I submitted in October 2007 never made it into the 2008 directory, but is in the current searchable online version.
I am sure, or hope, they will reconsider accepting the reported 602 foot spread on the catalpa, once they realize the problem. Ed Frank "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. " Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920. ----- Original Message ----- From: Will Fell To: ENTSTrees Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 7:41 AM Subject: [ENTS] Re: AF Big trees Register- incorrect entry? Not sure where you got that citation as the hardcopy 2008 record is a 397 pt tree in Indiana and also that is what the online version shows also. It has a girth of 293 inches, 82 ft hgt and 90 ft spread. http://www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/register.php?details=2776 Russ Carlson wrote: > While checking the American Forests Big Tree list today, I found a > Catalpa listed in Morris, NJ, with 468 points. Circumference is 228�, > height is 90�, and it lists the average crown spread as 602�. > > http://www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/register.php?details=4307 > > Does any one know of this tree? I find that spread to be unbelievable. > > --- > Russ Carlson, RCA, BCMA > ASCA Registered Consulting Arborist #354 > ISA Board Certified Master Arborist PD-0008B --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
