Beth, ENTS The tree I posted is a yellow, chinkapin Oak. Not Bur. The Champion Bur Oak is listed at American Forests as residing in Woodford Ky. Second place is in Mo.,but only by 4 points.
On Aug 7, 6:06 pm, Beth Koebel <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob,http://www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/register.php?details=3966 Scott > > No, I don't know how it was measured but given the history of measuring it is > probably listed too high. I will start to ask around about it but I am not > sure what kind of response I'll get. > > Beth > > Trees are the answer.--bumper sticker from Illinois Forest Association > > --- On Fri, 8/7/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: this is how we grow oaks in Kentucky > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 5:02 PM > > #yiv1582189470 p {margin:0;} > > Beth, > > Do you know how the champ was measured? As you know, big crowned trees are > often badly mis-measured. > > Now that we have a contingent of Ents running state champion tree programs, > maybe more opportunities will arise to push our more accurate measuring > techniques. > > Bob > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Beth Koebel" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 5:54:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Re: this is how we grow oaks in Kentucky > > Scott and Ryan, > > The national champ bur oak is south of Columbia Missouri. Columbia is about > halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City along I-70. Unfortunatly it is > located on private property some where in Boone County. > > Beth > > Trees are the answer.--bumper sticker from Illinois Forest Association > > --- On Fri, 8/7/09, Ryan McEwan <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Ryan McEwan <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: this is how we grow oaks in Kentucky > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 9:27 AM > > Scott: > > Really impressive tree. Look at those branches! > > It is hard to say which is larger based on that picture... I agree the trunk > is a little wierd on the Kentucky one. I actually don't know what the > protocols are for measuring trees for this kind of thing. > > ryan > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:30 PM, pabigtrees <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ryan > > I would be curious to see where they measured that Chinkapin Oak. It > is still listed as the champ. Look at this Chinkapin in Pa. Which > one do you think is bigger by looking at the pics? Our tree was the > National champ from 1940 to sometime in the 70 or 80's I think. Maybe > it will be > again.http://www.pabigtrees.com/trees/images/Sacred%20oak%20of%20the%20oley... > This tree is believed to be well over three hundred years old, and I > believe it. > > Scott > > -- > Ryan McEwan > The University of Daytonhttp://academic.udayton.edu/RyanMcEwan- Hide quoted > text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
