Awesome trees Larry. It amazes me how the gulf coast seems to get hammered year after year by hurricanes and still maintains so many large oaks. While the Charleston area of SC has many large grand old oaks, Georgia seems to not have quite as many of the really large ones even though it hasn't been hit by a major hurricane since 1898 (knock on wood). We still have the champ in Waycross (36 ft) and the little town of Bainbridge in SW GA is eat up with large oaks, on the coast we really don't have that many over 22 foot. I wonder if it doesn't have to do with the settlement pattern. The SC coast and the Gulf Coast were settled before the Georgia coast which was largely a no-mans land see sawing between the Spanish and English through much of the early years. Even Savannah, settled in 1733 which is covered in live oaks has very few over 22 feet.
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