Yes! You give me the LATLONG and associated tree attributes and I will plot and analyze tree attributes (height, CBH, canopy footprint, species, versus terrain shape and complexity. A small data set would get me started with ARCGIS and DEMS.
Gary On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:25 AM, [email protected] wrote: > John, > > Even better, if we plotted locations on Google Earth terrain maps > of sufficient resolution to show terrain shape. This might draw Gary > into the search. He's long been an advocate of plotting tree > locations on terrain maps and doing some serious terraip shape > analysis. We could show the distribution at different levels of > resolution. Something to consider. BTW, did you see my measurement > of the tall hemlock near Bruce Kershner's pine (Shunpike Area of > Mohawk)? It is now 126 feet. Not bad. > > Bob > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Eichholz" <[email protected]> > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:50:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada > Eastern > 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. > > > On Nov 23, 7:59 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > John, > > > > Excellent. Mapping out the 140s may eventually give us a better > picture of the range of tall tree habitats for Pinus strobus and the > tradeoffs. Why don't we see more 140s in the Connecticut River > Valley? How does terrain shape influence maximum height? > > > > Bob > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Eichholz" <[email protected]> > > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:24:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada > Eastern > > Subject: [ENTS] more 140's > > > > Bob's call to map the 140' pines of Massachusetts got me out to > > measure a few candidate trees I have been watching. I actually found > > 4 new trees in that class, at 3 new sites. > > > > #1 and #2 are roadside trees along Avery Brook in Heath. They just > > entered the 140' class at 140.1' and 140.5', but the 140.1' pine has > > the additional feature of being much larger than I thought. Crossing > > the brook, I measured the girth to a whopping 11.75' at 4.5' high. I > > didn't get the girth of the other, which is a double perched on the > > banks of the brook. > > > > #3 is found in a nice pine grove in Highland Park, in Greenfield. I > > measured it from 3 different places, all to over 140' but averaging > > 140.5'h x 7.6'c. I think this is the second 140' pine found in the > > Connecticut River valley of Massachusetts. A second tree within a > few > > feet of the first measured to 139' x 8.3'c. > > > > #4 is located on private land, in Dummerston, Vermont, in a nice > > drainage leading to the West river. I measured it to 140.0'. In the > > same cove I found a 120.3' hemlock. I will be going back to that > site > > soon! > > > > One additional find to report is a pair of shagbark hickories in > > Catamount State Forest. The first approximately tied the site record > > at 113.5' and the second broke the record at 116.0'h x 4.9'c. The > > find brings the Catamount Rucker index to 116.2. > > > > On the debit side of the ledger, I went to Ash Flats to reconfirm > the > > 133' bitternut hickory. Unfortunately I can confirm that it blew > > over. I did find a 126.7'h x 5.5'c red oak high up the slope above > > Ash Flats, but saw a lot of oaks, maples, birch, and ash blown down, > > most of them larger specimens than those left standing. It does seem > > that in addition to wind and ice we must add soil saturation to the > > agents of tree mortality. I have been finding lots of blow downs > > dating from this summer's 6 weeks of rain and saturated soils, as > > evidenced by finding leaves still attached to the branches and tip > up > > mounds located in obvious collector areas for soil moisture. These > > have included old, large hardwoods in sheltered cove settings, so > they > > are seeing unusual conditions I guess. > > > > -- > > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > > Send email to [email protected] > > Visit this group athttp://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]
