Howard, Being that that was nearly 3 years ago, I can't remember if you gave all this information to the group back then. But this is cool stuff to hear. It's very sad about the tree, but I'm glad you tried to work with the stump a little and then did some measuring around the island. Another thing we were told by island staff was that the island contained virgin forest, at least some anyway. Supposedly it had never been cut over by the white man. Even without its top that tree was most impressive.
--- On Sat, 8/1/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: my first big tree To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 5:52 PM Barry, I did go look for the White Pine at Word of Life Camp on August 30, 2006. There was a fire in the white building pictured in your first photo which burned one side of the tree. The tree died and was removed in 1985. Parts of the stump remain so I got some rough measurements and an rough estimate on age. It appears the circumference was around 13 ft. I counted rings on a portion of the remaining stump and using that with the approximate circumference got 350 years. Which given the approximate data and the extrapolation of a ring count from a portion of the tree to the whole tree is at most a ball park age. I measured several other White Pines on the island with the tallest being 125 and 134 ft. One 134 footer had a cbh of 11.8. Howard Stoner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
