In addition to my last post, here's a site with photos of the tomb itself and the woods it's in: http://homepage.mac.com/flea9/Sites/hiramstomb.html and here's an online magazine with a story about the tomb: http://www.southwoodsmagazine.com/sep07.html And here's a key piece of information from that article: "The tomb is located off the Maynard Hill road. The path, marked by paint and strips of fluorescent ribbons, is easy to follow. The pasture has long since grown up and, where once cattle grazed, now lumbermen have removed trees of great size." But the article was originally written in 1976, and loggin was done then. So you saw more recent logging? That makes it even worse. They should have left the site alone, completely. What a shame.
--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: From: Barry Caselli <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: photos of logging near tomb To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 11:25 AM Sam, I just did a search through my email with the term "Sofinowski Preserve" and turned up nothing about a tomb. But then I did a search using the term "tomb" and found a post called Recent hikes, quoted below. Now I understand. Thanks. So anyway, the logging looks a mess to me. "First let me thank Bob and Lee for their talks at the Agawam Senior Center last week. Very well done. I was the one that asked about the fires in California. Part of the talks reminded me I had a e-mail about recent logging in Chester,MA near the Hiram Smith/Isabelle Toogood Tomb, (there are only two such tombs known in the U.S.). Last Sunday we drove up there to check on the report. Years ago there was an old woods road, washed out in some places, that I could drive up to the tomb area on. Now you would need a log skidder to get 2/3 of the way to the tomb. I down loaded alot of pictures in my computer but I haven't been able to post them. I may have to wait for my son to do it for me. Today we took a tape measure up to Sofinowski Perserve in Southwick,MA. All I could measure was their girth of some of the trees. 2 of the trees were shagbark hickory. one was 5 feet around at 4.5 feet off the ground and the second was 6 feet. The largest tulip tree was 6.6 feet. The largest oak had 2 trunks, one 8.6 feet and the other was 9 feet. The trunks split apart about 5 feet off the ground. The base at 4.5 feet was 12 feet. The largest maple,16 feet around at about 4.5 feet, had 2 trunks living and 1 dead. The remaining leaves on the tree were very small and the tree is not doing well. I don't know alot about trees yet, but by using the trees in my neighborhood that I know date back to 1950 or so, I would say most of the trees in Sofinowski can't be much older. Sam Goodwin" --- On Sat, 10/17/09, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: From: Barry Caselli <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: photos of logging near tomb To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 11:15 AM Okay. The name Sofinowski Preserve sounds very familiar. I'll go back through my inbox and find it. Maybe if the original message were quoted in the new one with the pictures, that would have helped. Anyway, thanks. --- On Sat, 10/17/09, Sam Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sam Goodwin <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: photos of logging near tomb To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:28 AM Barry, I did post about my hikes in the tomb area and Sofinowski Preserve in Southwick,MA and it said message sent but I didn't get any comments. I think I may have sent it to the wrong ENTS site. Sam From: Barry Caselli <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 17, 2009 9:55:43 AM Subject: [ENTS] Re: photos of logging near tomb But I mean was there a previous discussion that I missed? It just seems odd that I see a post called "photos of logging near the tomb", out of the blue. I must have missed an earlier post. I have not deleted the messages, so maybe it's in my inbox. But I'll Google the name too. --- On Fri, 10/16/09, Sam Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sam Goodwin <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: photos of logging near tomb To: [email protected] Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 8:07 PM Barry, Google Hiram Smith tomb. Sam From: Barry Caselli <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 16, 2009 11:02:22 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: photos of logging near tomb What tomb? Did I miss something here? --- On Thu, 10/15/09, Sam Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sam Goodwin <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] photos of logging near tomb To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 9:11 AM Here are the photos of logging near the tomb. Sam Goodwin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
