Bob- Check out the apps button...search for clinometer...reads accurately to 1/20 of a degree, if you know what you're doing! Costs ninety-nine cents!! I've added a lexan case to mine, then used a triangular file to "groove" the case for "gunsights". Last October, after spending more than a week driving up into Foxtail and Bristlecone Pine forests, I took three different low standard state highways (got down to one lane switchbacks at the passes) across the Sierras...all of them had Sierra Crest Trails crossing them giving great access to high elevation junipers, firs, pines. Perhaps Colorado provides similar accesses...I recall one pass (one that has the Florisant Fossilbed N.M. with fossilized redwood stumps at overr 10,000 feet) with great access to high elevation forests. Sounds like a great roadtrip! -Don
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:43:18 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: ENTS in the news Don, As best as I remember from my travels last summer to Idaho, the white bark pine was having problems in parts of Wyoming. But, I mostly saw lodgepole pine and wasn't always conscious when there was a mix of the two species. I'll get up to altitudes of 11,000 to almost 11,500 feet going across some of the Colorado passes. In southern Colorado, the timberline is between 11,500 and 12,000 feet. So, I should see plenty of high elevation forests and will dutifully report on what I see. I remember from 3 years ago going across Wolf Creek Pass in the San Juans seeing lots of beetle damage to ponderosa pines. Pines I had seen in the mid-1980s were dead. It was a sad sight. BTW, I'll be tracking my emails on the trip with my IPhone. I broke down and bought one, and so far, I love it. Apple has really thought through the features. Most are intuitive and even though the monitor is small, I can still see it. You can expand the print in a simple way. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "DON BERTOLETTE" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:06:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: ENTS in the news Bob- In the west in general and surely in Colorado, the media I attend to describes the plight of the high elevation forests, particularly the pines, in (what our fellow forum member Steve Springer denies) at least a severe prolonged drought, and perhaps one of the signs of global climate change. Gradient analysis may not benefit much of the eastern forest, but for the western forests where a watershed may contain an entire elevational gradient, forests are differentially subject to moisture stress, and are showing higher mortality than would be found in the natural range of variation. If your travels take you into the higher elevations where whitebark pines are found, I'd be interested in a first hand account of their general health. The high elevation pines I've followed in the high Sierras (foxtail, bristlecone, whitebark, sugar, western white) are taking a hit, with potential catastrophy waiting with each monsoonal wave of lightning storms, due to increased downed and coarse woody debris. In two weeks, I'll be assisting a friend in nominating a Kenai Birch for the Alaska Register, and since the National Register doesn't list one, perhaps we'll be nominating a National champion! -Don Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 19:38:23 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: ENTS in the news Don, The day will come when AFs will be lauding the Pennsylvania and Alaska champion tree programs - and for good reason. Well, tomorrow, it is off to Colorado Monica and I go. I hope to report from the field as I go. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "DON BERTOLETTE" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:05:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] ENTS in the news Fellow ENTS- Just received the current American Forests, and saving the best for last, they had a great article applauding Bob Van Pelt's (and ours too!) obsession with champion trees...it's a good read! -Don Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check it out. Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. Check it out. _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
