Ed, Here's our current stats for King & Baker Islands:
*King Island* *Species CBH Height* Am. basswood 7.2 90.1+ bitternut hickory 11.1 108 black willow 7.8 60.1 butternut 6.5 69.1+ dotted hawthorne 6.1(below DBH) 39.3 silver maple 18.1 104.3 silver maple 9.7 120.1 slipper elm 6.4 94.7 sycamore 14.2 120 sycamore 7.9 136 white ash 4.3 81.1+ *Baker Island* *Species CBH Height* Am. basswood 8.7 72.1+ bitternut hickory 10.2 102.2 bitternut hickory 5.9 117.1+ black locust 4.5 72+ butternut 8.8 54+ common hackberry 9.7 81.6 dotted hawthorne 6.5(at 1.4ft up) 25 silver maple 12.3(2x) 84+ sugar maple 7.9 78 sycamore 13.8 117 sycamore 12.1 147.7 (6/18/08) yellow birch 6 N/A Also, Ents, These islands tend to have a good 3-5ft herbaceous layer, so dress accordingly. Just keep an eye out for Tony Kelly & his machette... One can never be too prepared when we disappear into the bush. I just disappear, Tony brings his machette, Ed loses his gadgets, and Carl usually brings the rain. I assume Bob will bring the bugs. Hey, gotta keep all your bases covered... Dale On 9/27/09, Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > > ENTS, > > For those of you on planning to attend the canoe trip on this Friday before > the ENTS Rendezvous, I wanted to give you a couple of comments. The first > Island we will be visiting is King Island. It is one that can be waded to > from the west bank. The west bank is a relatively wide flood plain. If you > look on air photos of the flood plain you can see the traces of several > channels that cut across it indicating previous river courses and the the > overall evolution of the feature over time. One thing we need to do while > on king Island is to finish up the Rucker Index. We have measurements for > eight species, and more are present, but we just have not measured them. > We have Silver Maple (104.3), Black Willow, White Ash, Bitternut Hickory, > Sycamore (120), Basswood, Hawthorn Dotted (39.3), Slippery Elm, Black > Locust, and Butternut (66.1) noted on the island.The dotted hawthorn is the > national champ by points. There are surely other species on the island, > including at least another species of hawthorn and some cherries.. There is > potential for taller trees than we have measured and there are more species > to be measured. The one single stem Silver Maple is truly spectacular. The > other thing for King and Baker is to see if there is regeneration of the > silver maples and sycamores in the flood zone of the island. > > Baker Island is the second island to be visited. it contains a 147 feet > tall sycamore. The downstream end of the island was hit by a tornado in > 1995 (Dale has a photo from a book). There is a neat fat basswood that was > broken off at about 60 feet by the winds. I lost a measuring tape near the > downstream end of the island. Maybe we can still find it. A broken top > yellow birch is found on the left bank looking downstream at the side of the > tornado area. it was not measured for height (maybe 25 feet) but does > represent one of the few yellow birches known for the islands. Also check > out the butternuts that were broken of by the tornado ad are now resprouting > in the canary grass fields, and the really really nice hawthorns. > > See you all there Friday morning. > > Ed > > > "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey > every now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving > nature...I couldn't live with myself" - Professor Hubert Farnsworth > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
