It drives me nuts when some species strongly resemble others, to the point where I get them mixed up. It's a well-known fact that the New Jersey Pine Barrens is dominated by Pitch Pines, and other species of pine are secondary. But shortleaf sometimes strongly resembles pitch pine, as in your vertical photo. That's exactly what a lot of our shortleaf pines look like. And we have a lot more shortleaf in certain areas than I used to think. Just an observation. Anyway, the area you visited sounds interesting. Barry
--- On Sun, 8/23/09, JamesRobertSmith <[email protected]> wrote: From: JamesRobertSmith <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Southern Missouri To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 9:36 AM I posted a couple of composite photos of the shortleaf pine forest I visited in the files section: http://entstrees.googlegroups.com/web/Pines02.jpg?hl=en&gsc=4g9O_xYAAADsmMcnJv0xElj46Ma8CtHbT1U8Yo131cEIjEsVOL6QuQ http://entstrees.googlegroups.com/web/Pines01.jpg?hl=en&gda=RsX5Uj0AAADiAn1wLM9UcjMmVRiwmGKJGzjTrxzBESYRtfoA3U820uovNFz0snjnmfLr30eKRXDlNv--OykrTYJH3lVGu2Z5&gsc=4g9O_xYAAADsmMcnJv0xElj46Ma8CtHbT1U8Yo131cEIjEsVOL6QuQ As you can see in one photo, a highway cuts the grove in half. Why it was spared the woodsman's axe I can't say. The most impressive trees were actually on the other side of the road where there weren't any trails. Also, I don't know why the understory had been cleared out. Maybe the Forest Service folk wanted the observers to better be able to view the pines. Or maybe there was ice storm damage from last year. I don't know. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
