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Today I led an interpretive walk at MTSF for a Greenfield Community College environmental science class. Before the walk, I spent about an hour remeasuring 4 white pines as part of an ENTS update of significant trees on DCR properties. I took extra time to get repetitive values. The measurements follow. Tree Species Height Girth Crown Spread Champ Tree Pts Jake Swamp WP 169.3 10.5 46.2 307 Mirror WP 156.4 11.2 44.0 302 Tom Porter WP 157.1 8.6 35.0 269 Paula Horn WP 154.4 10.6 47.0 293 The slow task of remeasuring literally hundreds of trees has to be a labor of love. But why do it? Well, for a variety of reasons. One way to bring attention to an outstanding public forest is to gather data on it in a systematic way and present the data to the resource manager. The impressively tall trees of Mohawk should not remain anonymous. Their story should be told in numbers. Can't think of anything I'd rather be doing. 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
