Bob: I better take advantage of your offer. I was going to take eight days of vacation leave starting this week, but with the state of the state, I'm dealing with layoffs, bumping, and operation planning to get us through these challenging times. I've been looking forward to a hike in the Monroe forest to see the Grandfather Pine so Saturday looks good - beats cutting firewood for five hours. The 10 tree list looks great for the exhibit. We can mount two tree photos on each of the five stands placed in the gallery space with the copy below the 2' x 3' photos. We are thinking about using 2 ft. wide doors mounted on a log base for the stands. The top of the photo would be about eight (8 ft) tall so one will experience the vertical rise. We are also discussing six side bar exhibits to complement the Great Trees.
Tim On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
