Based upon what I've seen, ice storms are very destructive to white pines, especially open-grown ones that lack the protection of other trees nearby. The apartment complex where I live has plenty of white pines around it, and nearly all of them suffered limb loss - some of it extensive - in a few ice-snow storms we had some years back.
On Mar 1, 7:26 am, neil <[email protected]> wrote: > I forgot to mention that the tulips performed surprisingly well. Not > great, but better than I had expected. Many of the red oak spp were > hit hard; there are not many white oak spp in town to say much of > anything. The pines, white pitch, etc, performed pretty poorly. > > neil > > On Feb 28, 7:58 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Neil and ENTS, > > Thanks for the report and the pictures. > > When I was a kid (before 6th grade when I was put in a Christian school), I > > remember riding the school bus to school one morning after an ice storm. > > All white birches (gray birch) in the entire area were bent over to the > > ground. On one particular road between our house and the school, there were > > birches on both sides of the road. They were all bent over, nearly meeting > > in the middle of the road, and therefore the road was blocked. When we got > > to these trees in the school bus, the driver turned the bus around and > > found an alternate route. As she was turning the bus around one of the > > other kids yelled "Go through it!", but she said that she couldn't do that > > because it would ruin the trees. > > To my knowledge, not a one of them broke, and all sprung back up to the way > > they were, later on. I have quite a vivid memory of this, even though it > > was only during one of my first 6 years in school. > > Barry > > P.S.- In my experience, around here the trees that are most susceptible to > > breakage under the weight of snow are tuliptrees and white pines. Any > > tuliptrees and white pines in the area always lose large branches during a > > heavy snowstorm or an ice storm. Other species always fare much better. > > > --- On Sat, 2/28/09, neil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: neil <[email protected]> > > Subject: [ENTS] re: January Weather in Review > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 8:20 AM > > > Hi ENTS, > > > Although this is technically February [and essentially March], I wanted > > to share some images from the KY Ice Storm from the last week of January > > '09. I hadn't experienced an ice storm as severe as this one and it was > > > fun listening to and seeing how different trees responded to the ice. I > > will not forget the persimmon next to my kitchen window just pop all > > night on the 27th and rain branches down onto my roof or side of the > > house. I left town when my power went out on the 28th and missed the > > next few days. My 89.8 yr old neighbor told me the real damage to the > > trees would come after the ice melted and the trees snapped back. There > > did seem to be more damage when I returned to town. > > > The silver maples were hit hard. But looking at the before and after > > pictures, it is amazing to see how many feet the outer branches sagged > > and sprung back. > > > Some red maples were completely smashed, like this one on campus. > > > The river birches next to the library were waylaid! It was pretty in > > the middle of them. They have since been cut. > > > I made it out to central Kentucky and Mammoth Caves the last couple of > > days. I didn't make it into Big Woods yet to see how much damaged it > > might have experienced - hope to visit in the fall. The ice damage to > > portions of Central KY that I saw were something. Mammoth Caves Nat. > > Park lost power for a few days, too. > > > The cedars and pines took it real hard. Angiosperms were hit fairly > > hard as well, but seemed to be less disturbed. These pictures are the > > worst. Most of the forest, like those in the bottom of the Green River > > watershed seemed to have less damage. > > > Wish there was time to do a species review of damage. Would be very > > interesting. > > > neil- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
