I meant 4 feet in diameter!!!
> 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] -- 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]
