Jess, I'm awestruck by the tree heights from Beaver Lake. I've walked all over Beaver Lake hundreds of times for many years and I never imagined the trees should be so tall - they are far taller than the old growth oaks and maples of the North Syracuse Oak Groves - these Beaver Lake heights are simply awesome!The tallest tree I've seen in the oak groves is a 110 ft. Red Maple in the Wizard of Oz Oak Grove, and the old Black Cherries in that grove do not reach 100 ft. as far as I know but I haven't measured all of them yet. The Black Cherry grove at Beaver Lake looks like a place called the Sugarbush - is that where they are? I did dbh measurements on them in 2001 but I never imagined they could be so tall.Is the Tuliptree in the Beech Grove east of the lake? If so, it's a tree I know well, and it's the only tree at Beaver Lake that I felt was really tall.Is the Black Gum on the Island, in the grove at the end of the boardwalk across the swamp from the Hemlock Grove? Is so, my brother, my nephew and I saw that tree in Oct. 2008. 88.4 ft. is really impressive for Black Gum this far north - the Wizard of Oz Oak Grove's Anne Frank Black Gum is 94.5 ft. tall. Fantastic! Tom Howard _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: It works the way you want. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009v2
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