Barry, Nice! That is a big Sweetgum! Like most, that poor hemlock looks hwa infested.
JP On Feb 10, 1:34 am, Barry C <[email protected]> wrote: > Finally, here are the pictures to go with this post. See text below > the links. > > Here's the 12' CBH > Oak:http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre... > > Here's the 10' 3" Sweetgum, the largest I've seen > anywhere:http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre... > > Here's the 5' 11 1/2" Bald Cypress, the only one > there:http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre... > > Here's the 9' 6" Hemlock, the only one > there:http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre...http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view&curre... > > On Feb 7, 8:27 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ENTS, > > Today I took a short little trip to measure the Weymouth Oak, as I call it. > > After coming up with my idea the other day, I decided to try it. I took a > > big heavy bolt and tied it to the end of my tape with a wire tie, and threw > > the end of the tape around the tree while standing on the edge of the high > > river bank. I then picked up the end of the tape and worked the tape up so > > that all of it was the right height, and then measured. I found the CBH to > > be 12', just about exactly. > > > > Weymouth, or Weymouth Furnace, was a bog iron furnace and village, which > > was in operation from about 1800 or 1801, up into the 1840s or so. After > > the furnace shut down two paper mills were built on the property. An > > asphalt road goes through the property today, going over one of the > > original village streets. About one or two dozen twentieth-century houses > > exist today, along with the 1805 (or 1807) church. Other than that it's all > > preserved land in one way or another- part county park, part state wildlife > > management area, and part NJ Natural Lands Trust preserve. The ruins of > > both paper mills are in a tiny county park where you can have a picnic. On > > the edge of the dirt parking area there, you can find a large Sweetgum. I > > measured the CBH at 10' 3". In this picnic area/park, you can also find > > smaller sweetgums, buttonwoods and other things, all of which seem to be > > offspring of original trees. Ruins, cellar holes and foundations can be > > found in > > surrounding woodlands. Across the asphalt road, in the NJ Natural Lands > > Trust preserve, you can find a very interesting assortment of trees. At > > least one of them dates to the bog iron era. That is the oak I measured > > today, mentioned above. Other trees were planted during the paper mill > > period or even during the 20th century when some people were allowed to > > live in the village before it was abandoned. When you walk the path into > > the woods, the Great Egg Harbor River is down the steep bank on your right. > > On your left there are two rows of Norway Spruces, at about a 45 degree > > angle from the path (which is an old street). There is also a small hemlock > > and a small European Larch. Just past these trees on the right, on the edge > > of the river bank, you find the old oak. This oak once had a twin, just > > several yards away. That tree died and came down many years ago, and lies > > in pieces on the ground. Common woodland trees in this woodland include > > Pitch Pine, > > Eastern Red Cedar, Tuliptree, Buttonwood, White and other oaks, and > > American Holly. The Buttonwood and Tuliptrees are likely offspring of > > former village trees which no longer stand. Further along the path there is > > an oak that's quite big but not as big as the one on the river bank. This > > one I measured at CBH 8' 6". Keep walking and you start to find more > > unusual trees. There are two old maples, one on each side of you, along > > with a single bald cypress tree, a single hemlock tree, and 4 or 5 European > > Larches, one of them dead. In this area down the embankment to your right > > you find a cedar swamp between you and the river, so the river isn't > > visible from this point. The Hemlock here is the one I would like measured > > (height), and checked for HWA if possible. Its offspring below it don't > > seem to have it, which is encouraging. I had measured the CBH of this > > hemlock and bald cypress on an earlier visit, maybe last week. The hemlock > > is 9' 6", but had to be > > measured lower than usual, to get below a second vertical leader that > > starts pretty low. The bald cypress is 5' 11 1/2", and a nearby sweetgum is > > 7' 9 1/2". > > > > I will send pictures later, or maybe I'll set up a Flikr or photobucket > > account so that people can click links instead of view attachments. I have > > an unlimited Webshots account, but Webshots is slow, and I think they don't > > take kindly to linking to individual photos. > > > > Barry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
