Nice ash, Bob. Can't even come close to that so far down here.
Your Norway is very impressive. I think we've only broke 130 once here in PA. Dale On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > Today saw John Eichholz, Andrew Joslin, and yours truly out stamping around > in the Trout Brook Cove of Mohawk Trail State Forest. We had several > objectives in mind. We accomplished most of them, plus the trees added a > real sweetener for us. > > We first remeasured the Trout Brook white pine. It grows low in the cove > and has heretofore has had the distinction of being one of the two tallest > trees in the cove and the tallest of the white pines. What was the status of > the tall, slender pine? That was a question in need of an answer. Well, it > is now around 152.5 feet in height. My measurement was 152.8 feet. John can > post his measurement separately, which is very close to mine. Our > measurements are usually within +/- 0.3 feet of one another. John then took > its girth, which is 8.5 feet. The pine next two the champ is very close to > 150, but we didn't take the time to remeasure it. At least I didn't. > > As we moved up the cove John checked on several hemlocks in the low to > mid-120s. But we didn't spend much time fine tuning the measurements. We had > a very specific objective. Farther up the cove, we reached the super site, > our planned destination. The super site has 3 height champions, which we > wanted to reconfirm: a sugar maple, a red maple, and a white ash. John > spotted a very tall sugar maple and we measured it. We settled on 129.5 > feet. The sugar maple's girth is a very slender 5.5 feet. The significant > heights and slender trunks of the site we were at led Lee Frelich to call it > a super site in his Oct 2008 visit. > > An objective at the super site was to remeasure the champion red maple that > John had previously found. It was the first tree of the 3 listed to be > reached. Alas, the red maple has lost height. Today, we measured it to 125.5 > feet. Its girth is 6.4 feet. It had been 128.0. That left the champion sugar > maple and the white ash to reconfirm. > > We first located the champion ash, which John had originally measured to > 151.5 feet. That was a number of years ago. But, on the last measurement, I > could only confirm 150.3 feet. However, my view of the crown was obstructed. > I think both John and I feared that our champion would be under 150, > possible even be on the ground. The stand has taken several hits from the > weather of the past 12 months. There are lots of downed trees and an > inspection of the crowns, shows lots of breaks. Well, the good news is that > we found the ash standing and in apparently good shape. That is especially > significant. The ash is not just a state or New England champion, but the > northeastern champion. Today's measurements confirmed that our champion has > grown. I got 152.0 feet and John got 152.3 feet. The ash's girth is a very > modest 6.6 feet. The first two attached images show the champion ash. Andrew > is in the second image getting a vertical perspective on this remarkable > tree. > > Afterward finishing with the champion ash, John relocated the champion > sugar maple and remeasured it. It has lost height. But I think its top > height was 134.4 feet. It is now around 132.8 feet, if I recall what John > said. I'll let John tell the full story. > > After leaving the super site, we walked back via a stand of tall Norway > spruce that were planted in the 1930s. I had measured one tree to 127 feet > several years ago, but had failed to relocate the tree in subsequent visits. > This time we found it. After measurements by all three of us, we settled on > 129.2 feet. The champ has grown. Long live the champ. Its girth is a very > modest 4.6 feet - another pencil tree. The last attached image shows John in > the process of measuring the tree's girth. > > Mohawk's trees are taking some hits, but there is still plenty of good > news. Oh yes, John measured several significant black birches, but I'll turn > the microphone over to him and let him finish the story. Also Andrew has a > surprise to show every one in an image. John and Andrew? > > 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]<entstrees%[email protected]> -- 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]
