Hello fellow ENTS,
I've been on a search to update the champion tree list for Atlanta, GA and was
curious if any members would be able to help me out with a few things:
1. Are any of you familiar with metro-Atlanta and would you be able to suggest
some areas to search for big trees? (I've seen Jess Riddle's report of big
trees in Piedmont Park from 2005, but that's all I've been able to find)
2. I have a particular interest in urban Tulip Poplars and have created a
master list containing the 20 largest (CBH/DBH) trees I've yet found in the
city. This list goes from 13.0' CBH to a whopping 15.42' CBH. Are these
exceptional for a large urban area or do other big cities in the Piedmont
region have such large Tulips?
Here's a quick look at my ATL Liriodendron search list:
CBH (ft)
15.42
15.35
15.25
15.25
15.10
14.75
14.50
14.10
14.10
14.00
13.75
13.65
13.57
13.50
13.50
13.20
13.13
13.10
13.10
13.00
I hope to get a laser sometime after leaf drop so I can begin including height
measurements as well. There are at least a few spots I know of with trees in
excess of 130' and possibly 140' within the city limits.
~Eli Dickerson
Fernbank Museum of Natural History
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