AJ I'll place a friendly wager that that tree wouldn't measure as well today, if as you say it was still around...although d-tapes were probably a pretty well understood technology back then - substantial bole! Don
Sent from Don's iPhone 3GS... On Oct 21, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Andrew Joslin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello ENTS, > Apologies if this has been covered in the past, a friend sent this > record to me from Michigan. Was this or is this a valid measurement? > Probably from the American Forests database, I looked through it and > couldn't find much except a large diameter white pine in Maine. I > gather > that a measurement made (by whatever means) in 1984 may not mean much > now, for instance are the trees still standing? > -AJ > > COMMON NAME EASTERN WHITE PINE > SCIENTIFIC NAME PINUS STROBUS > LOCATION MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN (BOTH) > NOMINATOR PAUL THOMPSON (BOTH) > MOST RECENT MEASUREMENT 1984 (BOTH) > > CO-CHAMPIONS: > > CIRCUMFERENCE AT 4 1/2 FT. 186 IN. 202 IN. > HEIGHT 201 FT. 181 FT. > CROWN SPREAD 52 FT. 64 FT. > > TOTAL POINTS 400 399 > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
