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BTW, this tree brings the current Rucker Index for Cataloochee Valley to 160.4. 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 Will Blozan Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Onion Bed red spruce, Cataloochee GRSM-NC ENTS, Yesterday I was in Cataloochee up Pretty Hollow Creek Trail scouting a hemlock treatment site. The site was on Onion Bed Branch- nice old (mostly dead from HWA) hemlocks but a spruce stood out as clearly one of the taller trees up there. I did not have my diameter tape with me but the ~8 foot cbh spruce reached 147.1 feet. Jess Riddle was here in 2003 but his report doesn't mention a tree this tall. I did see the 142 foot spruce he mentioned. On the way down I measured a witch-hazel to ~22" cbh X 47.9' tall. This may be the second tallest recorded; bested only by a 53 footer on a nearby creek. I'll get the girth of both trees when I return to treat the surviving hemlocks. Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. "No sympathy for apathy" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
