My hunch is that we would be impressed with the specimen American chestnuts and be hardpressed to find a quality oak or yellow-poplar in the Appalachian mountain range (American chestnut being the dominant hardwood before the blight). (What do you think regarding dominant hardwoods through the Appalachian range, Will?) Steve Springer
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Will Blozan Sent: Sun 5/3/2009 6:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Kalanu Prong, Greenbrier, TN GRSM 4-21-2009 Steve, How is your last sentence supposed to read? Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. ________________________________ My hunch is that we would be impressed with the specimen American chestnut trees and be hardpressed to find a quality oak yellow-poplar in the Appalachians mountain range. Steve Springer ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Joseph Zorzin Sent: Sat 5/2/2009 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Kalanu Prong, Greenbrier, TN GRSM 4-21-2009 Question for Bob and Will and the others. Roughly speaking, what percentage of the forests of the East - if we could go back a millennium- would appear to us as "old growth"?? Of course there have always been fires, storms, clearings for villages, etc. I'm just trying to get a sense- if we could go back and wander around the forests- would they be filled with gigantic trees, thus looking very different from now, or not? Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:11 AM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Kalanu Prong, Greenbrier, TN GRSM 4-21-2009 Will, A phenomenal report as usual. It would be great to have a list of all the 20-foot circumference trees in the Smokies. Information in email communications becomes too scattered. Anyway, thanks for the great reports. Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
