John
Come to think of it, I think your 120 hemlock is a first for
Vermont. We have one to 125 in NH. It is on the super Claremont site.
Bob
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On Nov 23, 2009, at 7:24 PM, John Eichholz <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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.
>
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