Ed, I would love to have an increment borer and learn how to use it.
The tuliptrees don't have the deep old furrowed bark of the Cataloochee or Joyce Kilmer old growth specimens. JP On Nov 8, 5:31 pm, "Edward Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, > > I don't think that a fair guess could be made about the tuliptrees without > any core data from the area at all. I know farther up the ridges along > Shenandoah National Park and farther down ridge tops along the Blue Ridge > Parkway are dry ridge top forests of oaks. > http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/virginia/shen2008/shennan... One > short and gnarled red oak tree, and one not really that large in girth > (around 7 feet), with many bigger ones in the same section, had been cut > after falling on the highway had 215 rings. These are primary old-growth > forests with no evidence in many of them having ever been cut. Your > tuliptrees are just a little farther down slope. They could be young, or > they could be old given the context of their location. > > Ed > > "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. " > Robert Frost (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. 1920. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James Parton > To: ENTS > Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 1:27 PM > Subject: [ENTS] Chestnut Grove, Hominy Valley Overlook BRP > > The first poplar measured was 134.51 feet tall and 7 feet 11 inches > in girth. The second measured was 139.60 feet tall and 9 feet 5 1/2 inches in > girth. Does anyone in ENTS have any idea of how old these trees would be? My > guess is about 100 years. > > James Parton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
