Andrew- When I trained satellite image classifications on NW Mass forests, I noticed a trend towards O-G being located in upper slope northern exposure coves... Don
Sent from Don's iPhone 3GS... On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Andrew Joslin <[email protected]> wrote: > Definitely, that thought occurred to me. There does seem to be some > correlation to greater height potential on slopes, don't know how much > it's been explored. My understanding is that Hyperion (Coast Redwood) > the current world height champ is a relatively young tree (as redwoods > go) on a steep slope. Compare that to older not quite as tall Coast > Redwood more in the river bottoms. It could be an aberration with no > relationship to location ie: slope vs. low flats. Your theory is a > good > bet in Dunbar though. > -AJ > > DON BERTOLETTE wrote: >> Andrew- >> Taking a page from A Sand County Almanac, where Aldo admonishes us to >> "think like a mountain", if we were to think like a logger a century >> or two ago, we'd be thinking about a winter logging operation, going >> into a valley where we could, and plucking out a hickory or an >> oak, depending on what species the market was seeking, and pulling it >> out by horse or mule, or oxen on a sled. The technology for getting >> trees further up the slopes was yet to come... >> -Don >> >>> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:23:16 -0500 >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [ENTS] Meet the Neil Pederson Pine >>> >>> It's so interesting that the tallest Dunbar Brook pines are up on >>> the >>> slopes and not in the bottom along the creek. I would've thought it >>> would be the other way around. Perhaps there is a sweet spot between >>> being too high on the slope and suffering wind damage but still >>> being >>> high enough to get more sunlight as opposed to the pines in shadow >>> down >>> in the bottom by the brook. Thoreau and Grandfather pines might be >>> demonstrating that principle, both on the slope, the Grandfather >>> higher >>> up, the upper crown is more sparse (limb break out) and not as >>> tall as >>> Thoreau despite appearing to have equivalent age or maybe even >>> being an >>> older tree than Thoreau. >>> >>> Something else to consider is that we're only looking at a 100+ year >>> cycle, it may be that the pines in the bottom of the cove are >> turtles in > -- 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]
