Barry,
Your old photos are treasures. One of the most important functions of ENTS is to photographically record special sites and trees. It is apparent to me that you have a big role to play in that mission. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Caselli" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2009 11:23:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: my first big tree Awesome. Here's my first big tree. The location is a 90 acre island in Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks. The island is the former estate of a Miss Clark, heir of the Clark Thread fortune. A group called Word of Life purchased the island in the 1940s or 50s and made a summer youth camp out of it. I attended camp there for two weeks during the summer of 1979 and again for two more weeks during the summer of 1981, which was immediately after I graduated from H.S. The tree was touted as being the largest White Pine in the State of New York, and was estimated by naturalists, or tree experts, to be 500 years old. This is what we were told by the Word of Life Island staff. They were quite proud of their tree. Unfortunately it was not tall because much of the top had been lost in storms over the years. My estimate of its size was 4 to 5 feet DBH, just from looking at it while I was there. It was enormous. I had previously never seen a tree even approaching this size. I was amazed. A couple years ago I tried to get some ENTS to arrange to go there and photograph and measure it. Come to find out, it had died a few years earlier and was no longer extant. I was very sad. These photos were taken with my old ITT 110 camera. I thought I had better scans than this. I will most likely have to re-scan the photos. Barry --- On Fri, 7/31/09, pabigtrees <[email protected]> wrote: From: pabigtrees <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] my first big tree To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 6:53 AM ENTS I recently found this picture from 1993 when I was on my honeymoon in Charleston, SC. We visited Middleton Plantation and saw the Middleton Live Oak. I thought it would be a good tribute, since it has broken recently. This experience started my journey in the big tree arena. When I returned home to Pennsylvania, I wanted to know where the biggest trees were in my state. I later found out about the champion tree program, and got involved. Enjoy! http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/web/middleton_live_oak_1993_small.jpg?hl=en Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
