Michele,
We'll take whatever data we can get on tuliptrees, but 4 feet around is a very small tuliptree. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:57:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [ENTS] Confirmations Hey Bob; The biggest striped maple I ever encountered was 14" dbh back around 1988 in Hawley State Forest... I was amazed it had reached such a size! By the way, I haven't forgotten I'd said I would measure that tuliptree at my next door neighbor's front yard... but as soon as you (or someone else?) had mentioned keeping an eye out for tuliptrees of 7 feet or so in girth or bigger... well, my neighbor's tuliptree is probably only about 4 feet or so... still a big one, in my book, but probably not ENTS-worthy... as Billy Pilgrim says, "so it goes!" Michele > > ENTS, > > > Today I went to MTSF with Chris Matera to plan for a visit to Mohawk by > some state dignitaries, probably in November. I used to opportunity to > remeasure several important Mohawk trees. The Frank Decontie and Lee > Frelich pines were principal targets. I also measured a promising striped > maple in the Algonquin Pines. Measurement statistics follow. > > > Tree Species Height -ft Girth -ft > > > Frank Decontie WP 161.3 10.2 > > > Lee Frelich WP 161.2 8.6 > > > Unnamed STM 63.0 1.8 > > > It was comforting to confirm that the Frank Decontie and Lee Frelich pines > are still solidly 160s. In addition, the unnamed striped maple turned out > to be an impressive 63 feet. The 63-footer is the 4th striped maple in > Mohawk that reaches to over 60 feet in height. > > > My objective is to bring up Mohawk's measurements to the present. Last > week's re-measurement of the Joseph Brant Pine dropped Brant out of the > 160 Club. I could only confirm 158.8 feet for the big pine. > > > 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] > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- 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] -- 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]
