Dale,
For many years I was known as Low Pressure Leverett. Not sure
about the bugs. I'll do my best. In terms of rain, though, maybe Carl
and I can team up and create some real shore nuff toad stranglers.
Bob
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On Sep 29, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Dale Luthringer <[email protected]
> wrote:
> 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
>
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