Hi Eli, I grew up looking for big trees around Roswell, so I've seen a good many large trees around the metro area. I'm curious about the scope of your project. Are you looking at both forest grown and open grown trees? Are you looking at just large species or all species? Are you looking just within the Atlanta city limits or at the whole metro area?
The largest tree I know of in the Atlanta area is a cherrybark oak at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The tree is easily visible from the baseball stadium and used to be the state champion black oak. The last time I saw the tree, several years ago, it was unclear to me whether it was one tree or two trees fused together. There are larger tuliptrees in the metro area. One at the Roswell Recreation Area is 18'+ cbh, and one in the wood behind Bulloch Hall in Roswell is 16'+ cbh. Many of the old city squares and adjacent old residential streets have large trees. The Marietta square used to have a 17' cbh will oak, and an old neighborhood nearby has several large water and willow oaks. Similarly, Mimosa Street in Roswell has a 15' southern red oak and a 15.5' white oak. I don't know of many sites with impressively large forest grown trees. Storza woods has the tallest trees I've seen in the metro area. The East Palisades unite of the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area has forest grown trees to around 12' x 130' as well as some unusual species like American bladdernut and bigleaf magnolia. In general, open grown 15'+ cbh white, willow, and southern red oaks are scattered around the metro area. I'm forwarding your e-mail to my dad, who still lives in Roswell and has all of our old notes. Even with our haphazard sampling, I think it would make a very interesting research project to revisit all the large trees my dad and I measured several years ago and see how many have survived and how much the survivors have grown. Jess On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Eli Dickerson<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
