Steve,
Check out this mismeasurement by Paul Thompson: http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/michigan/michigan_big_trees.htm Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. "No sympathy for apathy" _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Galehouse Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Marquette, Michigan white pines ENTS- After reading the posts concerning tree heights in Michigan, is it safe to assume heights of trees were intentionally exaggerated(not just mis-measured) by certain individuals? Steve On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: I received that and read it. That's partly why I said that it's all good now. Very interesting reading. Amazing that they had the heights so badly screwed up. --- On Wed, 10/28/09, Paul Jost <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul Jost <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Marquette, Michigan white pines To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:56 AM I sent a longer reply with more information on this yesterday. It's on the google groups web site but apparently didn't get out to everyone for some reason. PJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Caselli <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> To: [email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:29 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Marquette, Michigan white pines Oh okay. Thanks. --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Andrew Joslin <[email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > wrote: From: Andrew Joslin <[email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Marquette, Michigan white pines To: [email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 4:53 AM The tallest of the two, the alleged former champ. -AJ Barry Caselli wrote: > This is the second message in a row in which the sender said "this > tree", when there were actually two of them. Which one is dead? > > --- On *Thu, 10/22/09, Will Blozan /<[email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> >/* wrote: > > > From: Will Blozan <[email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Marquette, Michigan white pines > To: [email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 3:59 AM > > Andrew, > > This tree is dead- it fell a while ago. The height, as expected, > was WAY off. More like 135-140. Lee is familiar with the grove I > think. > > Will > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Andrew Joslin <[email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > *To:* [email protected] <http://us.mc544.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:32:06 PM > *Subject:* [ENTS] Marquette, Michigan white pines > > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
