Kirk, Just remember to bring your machete on the extreme downriver end of Thompson. You've got a ~15ft snotweed canopy down there...
Dale On 9/23/09, Kirk Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback Ed and Dale. > > I was out on the main island last Wednesday and had a tough time navigating > the thickets of multiflora rose in places. > > I went back out on Saturday and brought a machete. Spent a lot of time > cleaning up the small satellite island to the immediate north of Thompson's. > The Japanese knotweed was extremely thick (and tall) in places there, but > the machete was effective on it. > > Did not run into a lot of knotweed on the main island for some reason. > Machete was less effective on the multiflora rose stems. Needs sharpening! > > Kirk > > > > *From: *Dale Luthringer <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *[email protected] > *Date: *Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 -0400 > *To: *[email protected] > *Subject: *[ENTS] Re: intresting sycamore on Thompson's wilderness island > (ANF) > > > Cool sycamore, Kirk! > > Also, thanks for making the effort to clean this island up. How was the > "snotweed" forest doing? ~How tall was the canopy? > > I thought I saw just about every tree on that island, but this one > certainly doesn't ring a bell... Ed? > > > Dale > > > On 9/23/09, *Kirk Johnson* <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last week I was out on Thompson's Wilderness Island participating in an > Allegheny River clean-up (for more information about the event see > http://www.alleghenyrivercleanup.com ). > > I know Ed and Dale and those guys have been out on the wilderness islands > and provided trip reports in the past, but I can't remember if this > particular tree was noted or not. > > Large otherwise healthy sycamore about midway down the island toward the > eastern shore, but take a look at the base of the trunk. Kind of neat I > thought. (Sorry no measurements of any kind I was in the middle of picking > up garbage!) > > Kirk Johnson > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
