Ed- While I'm certainly out of my element, or at least have been for more than a decade, but I disagree with Bob, it's both a lack of age AND its history of disturbances...you can't go into an area, clear it for agriculture, experience an industrial revolution, and logging over several hundred years and expect to have the resilience the area had back when it was kicking out some big trees.
It's going to take many more years...and probably the best you can hope for is to see things set on a trajectory that approaches it's past glories, rather than to watch it continue to diverge. ENTS is on the right track doing its best to preserve those core areas demonstrating enough remaining resilience (one measure could be the capacity to approach past tree height/circumference/volume maxima). -Don From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: more 140's Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:21:59 -0500 Ed No lack of age. Disturbance history is a different situation. I don't have an answer yet. Bob Sent from my iPhone On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:55 PM, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: John, Bob, How much of the lack of heights in the Connecticut River Valley is related to the age of the trees and disturbance history rather than the terrain? Ed Check out my new Blog: http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ (and click on some of the ads) ----- Original Message ----- From: John Eichholz To: ENTSTrees Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:50 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: more 140's One could make a sort of contour map, with colors or lines to delineate the height class observed. It would be neat, and would show the correlation of terrain and height, as it exists. -- 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] _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ -- 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]
