Mike,
Glad you reminded me. Gotta get up there on the cliffs and add to
the images that Will sent.
DCR doesn't seem to have time for Mt Tom's hemlocks. It's a long
story.
Bob
Bob
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On Jul 30, 2009, at 7:06 PM, "Mike Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> I was real interested in that dwarf old growth native red pine you
> wrote about on Mt. Tom. Have you photographed that? That would be
> something of a rarity.
>
> Yes I’ve hiked through Mt Tom’s gorgeous hemlock forest. Does DCR
> have any strategy to protect it from the HWA?
>
> Mike
>
> www.northquabbinforestry.com
>
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> Subject: [ENTS] Mt Tom Adventures
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> ENTS,
>
> Folks, my project plate is really full these days. I am
> forced to chop a way (no pun intended) at my many time consuming
> endeavors. One self-imposed mission is to document in images, words,
> and numbers the forest treasures of Massachusetts. I have several
> reasons for taking on this project, one of which is to share some of
> the hidden corners of our forests with others who otherwise would
> never know of their existence. A second reason is to help the
> Department of Conservation and Recreation document the special
> places that have heretofore been under-described and consequently
> under-appreciated.
>
> Today Monica and I went to the Mount Tom State Reservation
> and I took three photos for documentation purposes. I'd like to
> share them with my fellow and lady Ents and with the others that I
> am copying.
>
> The first image is of one of the big white pines on Mount
> Tom. It is 133.3 feet tall and 10.8 feet in girth. It is a
> particularly handsome tree and slightly large for a mature Mount Tom
> pine. Small hemlocks surround it. The big pine is in good shape and
> hopefully has at least 100 years left of life. I keep close tabs on
> this tree.
>
> The second image was taken well off the trail system in one
> of the secluded little coves. The basalt ledge is rather striking.
> However, the trees in the area of the basalt ledges grow in
> challenging conditions. Solid bedrock is only inches below the
> surface of the ground. Tree longevity here is not great. In the
> past, the European settlers of the region stripped Mount Tom of its
> original forest cover - not a wise action to take on the slopes of
> Mount Tom. Soils are compromised and the re-growth struggles to make
> ages much beyond 125 or 130 years. Today, deer add insult to injury
> by browsing the re-growth.
>
> The last image is of the New England champion eastern
> hemlock. It is a very large tree as can be seen in the photograph
> with Monica present to provide a sense of proportion (she's brushing
> off a pesky mosquito in the image). It will be fall before I can re-
> measure the champ's height due to canopy closure. However, at the
> end of the last growing season, the big hemlock's dimensions were:
> height = 125.0 feet, girth = 14.9 feet, and average crown spread =
> 49.0 feet. This gives our champ 316 points. In the point department,
> it has no close rivals in New England. The hemlock's trunk volume is
> approximately 750 cubic feet as determined using a Macroscope 25/45.
>
> Bob
>
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