Eastern Redcedar to over 800 years!? Impressive! JP
On Mar 10, 2:49 pm, [email protected] wrote: > ENTS-- > > For those ENTS in the more western portions of the east, you may be > interested in attending this session at an upcoming meeting of the > Southwestern and Rocky Mountain chapters of the American Association for the > Advancement of Science.? This session, which has talks by a number of Ents, > including myself and the Grand Ent Dr. David Stahle, is focused on the?Cross > Timbers ecosystem.? The Cross Timbers is a swath of oak-dominated woodland at > the eastern forest/prairie margin from Kansas to Texas and Arkansas to > Oklahoma.? The stunted trees of the Cross Timbers may look tiny compared to > the giants of the Congaree, but the old post oaks can exceed 400 years, and > eastern redcedars can exceed 800 years!!? A fascinating ecosystem, and one > that still has a lot of relatively undisturbed old-growth examples. > > So, if you happen to be in the vicinity of Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 30, 2009, > come pay the one day admission and hear some great talks! > > Don > > p.s.:? Please see the attached schedule for this Cross Timber session. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Don C. Bragg, Ph.D. > Research Forester > USDA Forest Service > Southern Research Station > [email protected] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and not necessarily those > of the Southern Research Station, the Forest Service, or the USDA. > > David Stahle <[email protected]> > 03/09/2009 07:17 PM > > To > > David Stahle <[email protected]> > > cc > > Subject > > Cross Timbers Symposium in Tulsa, March 30, 2009 > > Dear Friends and Colleagues: > > The Ancient Cross Timbers Consortium has organized a one-day symposium on the > climatology and ecology of the Cross Timbers and southern Great Plains to be > held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 30, 2009. ?This will be part of the SWARM > meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and will > be hosted by Steve Hallgren (Oklahoma State University), Don Bragg (Forest > Service), and Dave Stahle (University of Arkansas). ?I attach a small pdf > file listing the 24 presentations (20 minutes each). ?Several presentations > will cover recent research by students at Oklahoma State University, and the > Universities of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas. ?This is a full schedule > for sure, but it will be a lot of fun and we hope you can come. ?The one-day > registration fee is only $20 (for non-presenters). ?We are dedicating our > symposium to the memory of Mr. Doyle Niemeyer, the recently deceased District > Park Manager of Cross Timbers State Park, Kansas. ?You can learn more about > the SWARM meeting at: > > http://www.aaas-swarm.org/program.html > > Please come if you can. > > Sincerely, ?Dave Stahle > > David W. Stahle > Department of Geosciences > Ozark Hall 113 > University of Arkansas > Fayetteville, AR ?72701 > 479-575-3703 > [email protected] > > SWARM_XTIMBER.pdf > 141KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
