Bob, ENTS
I will try to fill in some gaps here in West Virginia and I will
post another Rucker Index in couple of days. I promise you it will
lead off with the nicest White Pine I have measured so far. If I have
searched the ENTS web site correctly i could only find two other
Rucker Indices for West Virginia - Widen and Alum Creek. If I have
missed any please point them out to me. If any ENTS have done any West
Virginia Rucker Indices and not posted please share
Turner
On Apr 6, 9:48 am, [email protected] wrote:
> Turner,
>
> Bravo and a big t hanks from all of us . We need more West Virginia sites
> to put that region, and in general, the high growth areas of the eastern
> forest biome, into true perspective. Thanks to Will, Jess, and Michael Davie,
> w e know the southern Appalachians are literally off the charts. Thanks to
> those of us in the upper latitudes, w e know the northern Appalachians are,
> for the most part, unimpressive, and the farther north we go, the more
> unimpressive they become.
>
> So we have a pretty good tall tree picture from the ends of the spectrum,
> b ut what of middle? We have a large gap. In particular, t he central
> Appalachians of WV are a mystery. It isn't that we don't have any data from
> the center - far from it. We are getting excellent coverage of Pennsylvania,
> just to the north of WV , thanks to that stellar ENTS PA A-team. But WV has
> always been held out as the land of promise, thanks to Russ's excellent
> reports. Unfortunately, our actual data from WV are so skimpy that the entire
> Mountaineer State lives more in our collective imagination than as a reality.
>
> I t is both exci ting and gratifying when a new site located anywhere is
> added to the ENTS Rucker inventory, but especially exciting when a new site
> helps to fills a conspicous gap in our eastern tall tree coverage. So, t
> hanks from all of us, your fellow and lady Ents.
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "turner" <[email protected]>
> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 12:31:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [ENTS] McDonough Wildlife Preserve Rucker Index
>
> ENTS:
>
> This winter I was able to measure enough trees in on a tract to
> develop a Rucker Index. The tract is a portion of the McDonough
> Wildlife Preserve in the City Of Vienna, Wood County, West Virginia.
> The entire Preserve contains 377 acres, and was give to the city in
> 1980 with wishes that it be a wildlife preserve. Bernard McDonough
> had owned the land since the 1930’s and much (70%?) of it had
> previously been cleared for farming purposes. He let this acreage
> revert to woodland. The other 30%?, which was composed of the steeper
> and rockier areas has probably always been in woodland although
> heavily impacted by timber cutting, oil/gas drilling, and fires and
> lately recreation. Even though it is called a preserve, it is managed
> more like a city park with picnic areas, paved walking trails, parking
> lots, restrooms, etc. I covered an area on the north end of the
> preserve which overlooks the Pond Creek Valley and is bisected mid
> slope by the Main Loop Trail. It contains about 100 acres. This
> section has a mostly north to northeast aspect and is cut by three
> small drainages/ravines. The elevation difference is about 180 feet
> from 830 feet at ridge top to 650 adjacent to Pond Creek. All the
> trees that comprise this index are below 700 elevation feet and most
> are in the ravines.
>
> SPECIES CBH HT
> Yellow-poplar
> L. tulipifera 8.1 137.0
> Northern Red Oak
> Q. rubra 10.4 122.7
> Shagbark Hickory
> C. ovata 109.2
> Chestnut Oak
> Q. prinus 7.8 108.1
> White Ash
> F. americana 5.7 106.7
>
> 5 species index = 116.7
>
> Pignut ? Hickory
> C. glabra 102.9
> Sugar Maple
> A .saccaharum 4.8 102.0
> American Beech
> F. grandifolia 6.1 101.6
> White Oak
> Q. alba 6.1 100.1
> Black Cherry
> P. serotina 6.2 100.0
>
> 10 species index= 109.0
>
> Black Oak
> Q. velutina 8.0 98.1
> Virginia Pine
> P. virginiana 5.3 98.0
> Yellow Buckeye
> A. flava 3.6 96.5
> Black Walnut
> J. nigra 5.9 90.2
> Tree of Heaven
> A. altissima 7.1 89.3
> Red Maple
> A. rubrum 6.5 86.0
> Persimmon
> D. virginiana 1.8 58.4
> Hophornbeam
> O. virginiana 1.5 53.7
> Grape Vine
> Vitis spp 0.84
>
> 114 annual rings counted on downed oak across trail. 4 feet above root
> flair
> Turner Sharp
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