Lee,
You won't be disappointed. I promise. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Frelich" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2009 1:24:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: [WNTS] Re: Leverett photo on San Juan www..... Bob: Sounds OK. My 2010 schedule is not filled with other stuff yet. I just was chair of a Ph.D. final exam committee for a student who studied tree line in the Sangre deChristos this last week. He is moving to The University of MO, Columbia to start as an assistant professor this fall. I have not been to that part of CO before. Lee [email protected] wrote: > Don, > > Soooooooopa! Late June or early July will work fine for Monica > and me. I think ENTS Pres. Will Blozan is on board for that time > period. If I recall, Larry said he could attend. So, let's see. So far > we have: > > Don Bertolette (WNTS Pres.) > Dr. Don Bragg (hopefully) > Laura Stransky (on-site WNTS rep) > Will Blozan (ENTS Pres.) > Larry Tucei Jr (LOL Larry - that's Live Oak Larry) > Tumbleweed Bob (the official mouth of ENTS and WNTS) > > It's a start. But somehow we have to convince Dr. Lee Frelich > that he has to meet his 154-foot tall, 9.1-foot girth ponderosa pine > on Hermosa Creek. He's been quiet as a church mouse on Durango. They > love you in Durango, Lee. They know all about you. Honest. Then there > is superstar Dr. obert Van Pelt. Bob must return and reclaim his > formerly held status as the measurer of the tallest Colorado blue on > the planet. As of this moment, I'm told the record is held by some > suave, debonaire slow-talking, handsome southern fellow. Any body know > who that might be? Of course, if Don Bragg makes it, we'll need to > visit his tree, a 118-foot tall Englemann spruce growing at 11,180 > feet altitude. That's the current height record for 11,000 feet and > above within the Rockies. Oh yes, Ed, you must come. You have to > explain the fascinating geology we'll be treated to. > > So there you have it folks. The event is on. Don't miss it. Come > one. Come all. We'll have wild rides, spirited beverages, tall trees, > dancing bears, sword-swallowing midgets......... We'll all get > "spruced up" ........ Oooh, too bad even for me. > > Hey, we need some original bad western tree puns for WNTS. My bad > eastern collection won't do. So, I'll start the ball rolling. Which > species can bend down and touch its roots? You all say, ho hum, yes > Bob - limber pine. Oooh. Gotta go back to bed It's 3:30AM. > > I'll close with a tantalizer - the image of a very old ponderosa > on the Lower Hermosa Creek Trail. Quick Don and Laura. How old? > > Bob > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DON BERTOLETTE" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2009 2:15:44 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Re: [WNTS] Re: Leverett photo on San Juan www..... > > Bob- > Your enthusiasm has always been catching! > I'm for it...with a constraint or two. We will be moving to > Yellowknife in July (no date set, but the further into July we get, > the more into Yellowjacket I'll need to be) for Rhonda's planned > sabattical/post doc. I'd probably have to fly down, as our car will be > loaded for Yellowknife. > > I have passed through Durango, and if memory serves me there's a > brewpub (a block south and west from where the highway makes a right > hand turn to the north, in old town...;>) with old time western charm. > > I say WNTS Rendezvous or Bust, late June or early July! > -Don > (Know anybody that wants to house sit our place in Anchorage next > summer/fall?) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:43:49 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Re: [WNTS] Re: Leverett photo on San Juan www..... > > Don, > > Will, Laura, and I are in the preliminary thinking stages of > organizing a big tree rendezvous in Durango for next July. We're going > to settle for a rendezvous instead of a full-fledged conference, due > to time constraints, money, etc. The summer of 2011 would then see a > full conference. > In my humble opinion, the rendezvous should be spearheaded by > WNTS. We could assemble a measuring team and hit as many sites as > possible during a 3 to 4-day stint and prepare a report to the Forest > Service on our findings. Laura would choose the sites. The > rendezvous would really be a joint WNTS-Forest Service venture. Will > is interested in climbing and modeling a big ponderosa while there. We > could have lots of evening slide shows and maybe a couple of > presentations for WNTS attendees and guests - just fun stuff. Will > could show his climb to the top of the 311-ft sequoia. If Dave Stahle > makes it, maybe we would hopefully persuade him to give a presentation > on aging junipers. The rendezvous would be all for the relatively > small group of measurers (6 to 12)and guests. No big preparations > necessary. Just hit the field and measure trees. > While there, I'm sure you would want to sample the local > beers. Maybe you already have. Didn't you tell me that you'd been to > Durango and rode the Durango to Silverton RR? I presume you had a > frosted glass with a spirited beverage in it. > With my allergy to alcohol, I'd have to settle for bright > colored Cool Aid-like drinks, but I'd pretend that they had alcohol in > them and act I little daffy after a couple of hours. Wait. That > happens anyway. > Those with sporting blood could place bets on how long it would > take Will to break my height records for the ponderosa and Colorado > blue spruce. Will does that sort of thing with grim regularity. Oh, is > it embarrassing, but his eye is unfailingly accurate and I've come to > be fatalistic about the whole thing. We could also have a little > ceremony and crown Dave Stahle, Lord of the Rings, also the ruler of > Western Earth position for Middle Earth is taken). > Laura, since you are the on-site Ent, we would appoint you > official keeper of the sacred numbers that we collected - a position > of the greatest trust. > Well, what do you say, Don? Let's make Durango our first > official WNTS rendezvous. YEA! > > Bob > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DON BERTOLETTE" <[email protected]> > To: "Western Native Tree Society" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:01:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [WNTS] Re: Leverett photo on San Juan www..... > > Laura- > Thanks for proof positive (pun intended) that Bob has an intuitive > sense of good photography! Of course what the photo really shows is > good land management! > -Don > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WNTS] Leverett photo on San Juan www..... > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:38:29 -0600 > > > Check out one of Bob Leverett's photos on this website belonging to > the San Juan National Forest! > > http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/sanjuan/passes/ > > Thank you, Bob, for the use of this beautiful scene in the LaPlata > Mountains. The light & angle of the sun are really exquisite. > Laura > > *********************************************** > Laura Stransky, US Forest Service > 15 Burnett Court, Durango, CO 81301 > Phone: 970-385-1216 > e-mail: [email protected] > ***********************************************</font > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Search, add, and share the web’s latest sports > videos. 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