Barry: Thanks. These pictures will be of interest for my Fire Ecology Class I will teach next semester. I didn't know pitch pine could produce epicormic sprouts.
Lee Barry Caselli wrote: > Great photos! > Your photo of the Wade tract superficially resembles photos I've taken > here in the NJ Pine Barrens. > As for your Redwood photo, how about these photos taken on June 23, of > Pitch Pines, about 6 or 7 weeks after a forest fire. Pitch Pine is a > cool speciels, how it re-grows after a fire. The location is about 5 > miles from here, or less. > Barry > > --- On *Mon, 10/12/09, Eli Dickerson /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > > > From: Eli Dickerson <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] 2 amazing species- Redwoods and Longleaf pine > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 12:50 PM > > Hello ENTS, > I've been lucky enough to do some traveling to a number of special > ecological areas in the past few weeks. First I ventured to south > Georgia to briefly visit the Wade Tract, one of the only remaining > large stand of old growth Longleaf Pines in the world (see pic). > It's like stepping back in time to catch a glimpse of what much of > the south from Texas to Virginia looked like hundreds > or thousands of years ago. > > Secondly I spent my 3 year anniversary on the Big Sur coast in > California. Just in time to catch the amazing new NatGeo article > on the Coastal Redwoods. The attached picture is of new growth on > a redwood that I assume burned in the large fires last year in Big > Sur. The fire reached the crown and you can see fresh green > growth from the top to nearly ground level. Very interesting > dichotomy between the blackened trunk and lush regrowth. > > Enjoy! > ~Eli > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
