Don, Thanks for the welcome. Wanderlust brought me to Brazil! Actually the wanderlust of my girlfriend, since I normally don't head for the tropics on an extended trip, but I definitely don't regret it. Alas, I usually don't take a lot of photos on trips, but there is another spot I remember vividly in the Catskills that I would love to return to and take pictures of some of the trees there. It's a rather damp beaver-dammed area probably +2000ft above sea level, with a lot of old specimens of an unknown-to-me deciduous species. Jon
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:13 AM, DON BERTOLETTE<[email protected]> wrote: > Jon- > Welcome to ENTS! You're welcome to lurk, but if you have more photos of > trees like these, you'll have us expecting more out of you! > And don't worry, these days there are no 'omniologists', and we're ALL lay > persons in something! > What took you to Brasil? > -Don > >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:30:45 -0400 >> Subject: [ENTS] intro >> To: [email protected] >> >> First post. >> I joined the ENTS group a month or two ago and have been, and probably >> will stay, more of a lurker here as I'm a layman when it comes to >> forests, and have a hard time finding ways out of the big city, but >> over the last few years my interests in forests has grown a lot. I >> thought I would share a couple of large tree photos I've taken over >> the last couple of years: >> First: >> This is the only photo here not in the Eastern region of the United >> States... it's an old Kapok tree in the Mamiraua reserve in >> west-central Amazonia, in Brazil (taken in March 2008). I believe >> it's also called a Ceiba tree, and in Portuguese it's called a >> Saumauma tree. Although there were a lot of HUGE trees in the Amazon, >> this one stood out from the others from what I had seen up close; >> there had been logging of the giant trees in the region for years >> before this type was granted protected status. I can't tell you how >> tall it was but the trunk was at least six feet across many feet up to >> the first branches. I have read that these can grow to over 200 feet >> tall. >> Second: >> I believe this is an American Elm tree, the photo was taken last >> summer along the Thompson Pond trail near Stissing Mountain in Duchess >> County, NY. It was certainly the widest tree I saw along the trail, >> although there could have been others as I only went about halfway >> around the lake trail. >> Third: >> Again, I could be mis-identifying the tree, but I'm pretty sure this >> photo, taken in September 2008, features a Sycamore tree. If so it >> was easily the largest I've ever seen up close... it's hard to get >> perspective on it since I was alone, so sorry no human comparison is >> possible! It hangs over Big Walnut Creek in Putnam County, Indiana, >> and I found it walking along the Tall Timbers Trail of the Big Walnut >> Preserve. >> Fourth: >> Also from the same preserve, further inland from the creek. I was >> floored by this place, not least because I had grown up only 10 >> minutes away and had only known about it for the first time just last >> year, when I was browsing the Nature Conservancy's website for places >> to hike while I visited! (I live in NYC now). It really lives up to >> its name Tall Timbers, at least part of it is virgin forest. To >> imagine that the whole central region of my home state used to look >> like this is a real revelation for me. The thick tall trunk in the >> background is a huge tulip tree growing there. I wish I could >> estimate the height but as I said before I'm just a layman when it >> comes to trees! >> Keep up the interesting work here ENTS! >> Jon >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
