Jon,
A big welcome from me also. Great pictures. It seems that NYC is starting to be well represented in ENTS. My former partner Bruce Kershner was from Staten Island. My wife went to Julliard. Jennifer Dudley, an Ent, lives in NYC. Maybe we'll have to have an ENTS rendezvous in the Big Apple one of these days. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "jon parker" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:52:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: intro 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
