Bob: Thanks for the pictures--I think I have been to each of the 4 spots you show.
The Fitzgerald picture looks like it has a few twigs and leaves from that red elm tree that I noticed when I was there 2 weeks ago. Lee [email protected] wrote: > Joe, > > Actually, Will Blozan can way out hug me with his 10.8-foot arm span. > I've attached 4 images from recent outings. > > ToddMtnOG.jpg: This image was from last Sunday on an excursion onto > the boulder field on Todd. I'm in old growth at this location. > > ToddMtnRocks.jpg: Another Sunday image from a rock ledge overhang on > Todd in the old growth. > > ClarkRidgeYB.jpg: Yellow birch on Clark Ridge. Image taken today. Yep, > that's a pooch in the upper right-hand corner. It is Jennifer > Berglund's dog. > > Fitzgerald.jpg: This scene is a 25 minute walk from my front door. > Gorgeous! > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph Zorzin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:11:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Catching up in Mohawk > > And once again, Bob Leverett just has to be considered the world's > most fanatic tree hugger! I bet he hugs more trees than the next 5 > most fanatic tree huggers combined! > Joe > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Cc:* Darcey, Julia <mailto:[email protected]> ; Berglund, > Jennifer <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:08 PM > *Subject:* [ENTS] Catching up in Mohawk > > ENTS, > > Today Julia Darcey, a graduate student at Boston College, Jennifer > Berglund, a graduate student at Boston University, and myself > spent the day climbing on Clark Ridge in MTSF. Julia is writing an > article on old growth, big trees, and the return of the New > England forest, Jennifer is working on a thesis, and I was there > to show them around and remeasuring trees (surprise, surprise). > Both Julia and Jennifer wanted to see big trees and old growth, > and in particular, they wanted to visit the Elders Grove. Let me > say right away that Julia and Jennifer are great. They tolerated > my non-stop tree talk. They scrambled over rocks, under and over > fallen trees. They deeply appreciated the forest and all its > treasures. > > The first tree I remeasured was a big white ash standing above the > trail to the Elders Grove. It is 11.3 feet in girth and slightly > over 110 feet in height. It is an old tree with a crown that is > struggling to stay intact. It grows in a second-growth area with a > lot of 100 to 115-foot tall trees and a few over 120. > > After measuring the ash, we moved on to the Elders Grove. The > first tree I remeasured in the Elders Grove was the Crazy Horse > Tree. Its girth is up to 11.15 feet and its height to a top that > is re-growing from a break is a respectable 144.9 feet. Crazy > Horse has the research tag# 157. The second tree I remeasured was > the Chief Joseph Tree (named while we were there). Chief Joseph is > 11.05 feet in girth and 146.5 feet in height. I remeasured > Tecumseh and got 164.6 feet, probably high by 0.2 to 0.5 feet. I > think 164.4 feet is the right height given prior measurements. The > pattern of measurements supports that value. > > We moved up ridge and toward the Ash Queen. I was worried that > last winter's ice storm hit the great tree, but that did not > happen. I spent a goodl amount of time getting the measurement > right. Julia stood by the tree and provided a reliable target for > the laser. The ash queen is 10.7 feet in girth at mid-slope and > 146.1 feet tall. It is probably the 3rd tallest ash in Mohawk, > possibly the second. It is the largest and oldest of the really > tall white ashes in Mohawk. > > We moved on across the boulder field of Clark and toward another > important area of charismatic trees. An American basswood was > confirmed at 6.1 feet around and 124.0 feet in height. It is an > old tree, but hangs on. A slender white ash nearby makes 140.1 > feet in height. The canopy is loaded with trees between 120 and > 140 feet. But I had another site in mind. So we moved on. > > The Joseph Brant tree was the quarry. I spent time with measuring > every twig, but couldn't get more than 158.8 feet. Alas, the > Bryant pine drops out of the list of Mohawk 160-footers. Its > location high on the ridge makes it relatively exposed. It has had > a major crown break in the past and its recovery is slow. Its > girth is 11.0 feet at the spot I chose. Had I chosen a spot on the > opposite side of the tree, I would have gotten 11.2 feet. It is a > challenge to get the right mid-slope spot on this big pine. > > The last tree I took the time to remeasure was the Bruce Kershner > pine. Its girth is now 9.5 feet and its height is 150.8 feet. > Bruce Kershner's pine is the northern most in MTSF. > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
