David just got back to me on that question:

"Civil War era topo of the Chickamauga battlefield that shows troop movements during the battle. The big tree is on that map"

-Andrew

At 09:09 PM 12/4/2008, you wrote:
what's the map - that doesn't look like USGS?
 
dc

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Andrew Joslin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Hello ENTS,
Fellow tree climber and aspiring tree measurer David Obie has located
a roughly 133.5 ft. oak of undetermined species (red oak family I
think) in the Fort Oglethorpe area in northern Georgia just south of
Chattanooga. David did a straight up measurement (k) with a Nikon 550
rangefinder to get 133.5', the CBH is 14' 7". He's is going back to
the tree to gather twig/bud samples, take photos and measure using
sine top/sine bottom so more info is on the way.

Here's a photo of leaves gathered at the base of the trunk, anyone
recognize the species? (there may be more than one in the group)
http://hunabku.mysite.com/images/file0058.1.jpg

I looked though Dirr's 'Manual of Woody Landscape Plants' to do leaf
comparisons, the closest match I could come up with is Shumard Oak.

Thanks,
-AJ






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