I haven't, sounds very amazing. It's difficult for out introduced eastern Mass.cottonwoods to compete with your happily native western Mass. P. deltoides. I'm due for another visit to your part of the state. -AJ
At 07:00 PM 3/15/2009, you wrote: >Andrew, > > > > Good show. Very nice cottonwood. Have you seen the Bartholomew > cottonwood? It is a single-trunked giant. It is 19 feet in girth > and a hair over 124 feet in height. > > > >Bob > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andrew Joslin" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:35:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >Subject: [ENTS] Eastern Cottonwood revisited 3/13/09 > > >I reported this cottonwood in the Charles River floodplain in West >Roxbury, Massachusetts a year or so ago. I was never happy with the >height measurement so I went back and tried to nail it down. The >highest twigs are very difficult to isolate (aren't they all?) with a >decent view of the trunk through surrounding red maples and thicket. > From two different vantage points I was able to come up with >consistent enough results, 110.34' and 110.45', naturally I'll take >the high measurement. I had a third measurement that promised to be >in the 112' + range but I couldn't get a clear shot to the base of >the trunk to finish the bottom sine figure. > >Eastern Cottonwood >CBH 13' 6" >Height 110.45 > >Photos of the tree here: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturejournal/sets/72157615035370313/ > >Andrew Joslin >Jamaica Plain, MA > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
