Tim,
Any chance of getting out this Saturday? I'm free and would love to get some images of the Grandfather Pine up in Monroe SF - or rather I should say persuade you to get images of the great one. Sunday should be a good concert. Monica has mastered the very challenging Mendelssohn Trio. She played it for a house concert on Sunday - a fundraiser for Arcadia Players. She nailed the piece! I think you'll enjoy the program. BTW, the choice of 10 trees for the display that you and Robert entrusted me with now looks as follows: Tree Species Dimensions Loc Reason for Selection Cir x Hgt Jake Swamp Tree white pine 10.4' x 169.3' MTSF Tallest tree in New England, illustrative of what great pines of the past achieved, named in honor of current day Mohawk dignitary Tecumseh Tree white pine 12.0' x 164.4' MTSF One of only 3 trees in the Northeast with dimensions of 12 ft in girth at 50 meters in hgt. Named in honor of the great Shawnee war chief. Largest volume white pine in MTSF (798 ft^3) Grandfather Pine white pine 14.1' x 144.0' MSF Largest single-trunked white pine in Massachusetts (998 ft^3) Champion Maple sugar maple 18.6' x 102' MTSF National champion sugar maple. What more needs to be said? Is it a single tree or a double? I don't know for sure. Did it trunk- sprout early? Was it a sugar bush? Yes, almost certainly. Dunbar Ash white ash 14.8' x 122.5' MSF Largest forest-grown white ash in Mass Old-growth tree approximately 280 years old Ash Queen white ash 10.7' x 146.1' MTSF Old growth specimen and tallest white ash over 10 ft in girth known in Northeast. 3rd tallest for any girth Dunbar Birch yellow birch 13.5' x 98.5' MSF This is a splendid old growth specimen. It elicits gasps an/or cheers from all who visit it. And it has one trunk - not a stump-sprout cheater. Mt Tom Hemlock hemlock 14.7' x 125.5' MTSR New England champion eastern hemlock Photogenic. Dunbar Hemlock hemlock 12.7' x 115.5' MSF One of 3 great hemlocks in Massachusetts Old growth specimen approximately 300 yrs. old. Volume approaching 750 ft^3 Robinson Tuliptree tulip poplar 10.6' x 139.3' RSP Tallest know tulip poplar in Massachusetts Beautiful tree with trunk remindful of what the species can do farther south Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Zelazo" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 2, 2009 7:54:53 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Hophornbeam the Ironwood of the Northeast Bob: I won't have the opportunity to get back to the hopbeam for a while. Please let me know how the ents deal with a double trunk tree like the one I just dealt with. I think the smaller trunk is taller than the larger trunk. I look forward to Monica's concert on Sunday. I'm sure the experience will motivate me to start playing the piano again. Tim On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:38 PM, < [email protected] > wrote: Tim, If the hornbeam is over 70 feet, it is an exclusive club. The current Mass champion is 77 feet and a fraction. It grows in, guess where? Yep, in Mohawk. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Zelazo" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 2, 2009 5:35:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Hophornbeam the Ironwood of the Northeast ENTS: Since my office isn't far from the Hophornbeam, I ate my lunch while I was trying to get some data for the team. The Ironwood tree looks like two trees; the main trunk has a 26" dbh with a 67" cbh. The second smaller trunk has a 12" dbh with a 40" cbh. Directly across the trail is another 12" dbh Ironwood with a 40" cbh. There are ironwood trees are all around the parent/crop/seed tree. I took my PM Clinometer Height Meter Suunto with me because I didn't bring my climbing equipment (my schedule didn't allow it), and I tried to use the instrument to determine the height of the Hophornbeam. When I calculated 104 feet (120/100 x 82 + 5 1/2 ft = 103.9") , I realized I was doing something wrong. The height of the tree looks about 75 feet so I'll have to climb it before I can report the height. Since I couldn't pass my calculus, I couldn't be a forester. Math is like a foreign language to me and I'll struggle with it the rest of my life. No big deal! Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
