Got it, Thanks George & Scott,
You guys certainly got a nice line-up there. An RI of 128.83 is not very shabby at all. That puts it in the top 5 RI's in the state! *Site RI* ** Cook Forest State Park 137.15 Fairmont Park 132.27 McConnells Mill State Park 130.85 Clarion River 129.72 Valley Forge National Park 128.83 Ridley Creek State Park 128.3 Swarthmore College 127.55 Wintergreen Gorge 127.53 Ricketts Glen State Park 126.29 Walnut Creek Gorge 123.66 You've also catalogued a host of trees that are at least current PA height champs: *Species CBH Height Comments* boxelder 9.1 91 tallest PA osage orange 9.1 81 tallest PA swamp chestnut oak 8.5 118.2 tallest PA, probably NE white mulberry 5.1 71.5 tallest PA Absolutely incredible, Great stuff, guys! Dale On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM, George Fieo <[email protected]> wrote: > Dale, > > > > The site index and RHI are listed under Valley Forge National Park, Jan. > 2009 in the Index Listings page. > > > > George > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Dale Luthringer > *Sent:* Friday, September 18, 2009 5:51 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [ENTS] Re: Valley Forge National Park RGI > > > > George, Scott, > > > > Do you guys happen to have enough species for a RHI for Valley Forge Park? > > > > Dale > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM, George Fieo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ed, ENTS, > > > > Ed, I’ve noticed you have been compiling RGI’s on most of your field trips > lately. This is my busy time of year and I have had little time to get out > in the woods so I’ve been going over some of my numbers and Valley Forge > National Park, Pa., has an awesome RGI. If I use trees that Scott Wade and > I have measured VFNP has a RGI of 14.5. When I listed the VFNP report I > only listed the tallest tree for each species because the list was so long. > Here are the numbers. > > > > Valley Forge National Park Rucker Girth Index > > > > Species CBH Height Measurer > > > > Sycamore 23.2 89.4 Wade > > Black Walnut 18.1 94.0 Wade > > Tulip Poplar 17.8 89.0 Fieo > > Common Hackberry 15.6 86.0 Wade > > Silver Maple 13.5 89.1 Fieo > > Black Oak 12.3 101.9 Fieo > > Red Maple 11.9 76.4 Fieo > > Pin Oak 11.1 102.4 Fieo > > N Red Oak 10.8 104.2 Fieo > > White Ash 10.4 108.7 Fieo > > > > Rucker Girth Index 14.5 > > > > George > > <br > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
