Jeez, we don't get sugar maples that big in my part of Ohio. How about you steve?
On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:05 PM, thomas howard wrote: > ENTS, > > Here are some reports about heights in Liverpool School Maple Grove > and various sites in North Syracuse: > > Liverpool School Maple Grove Heights Liverpool NY > 11/26/2009 > > > On Thanksgiving morning Jack Howard and I visited this awesome old > growth forest near Wetzel Rd. Elementary School. I used Robert > Henry’s laser rangefinder to get heights. Besides some very tall > trees (especially Sugar Maples) the grove has other old growth signs > like abundant pit and mound topography, and many of these trees have > balding bark, shaggy bark, spiral grain. Many of the Sugar Maples > and other trees are well over 200 years old; it was on this site > that I discovered the record age Basswood cross-section with 242 > rings in 2003. > > Trees Measured: > > Sugar Maple 22.4” > dbh 91 ft. > Sugar Maple 52.6” dbh (13.8 ft. > cbh) 116 ft. > (this is the largest tree in the grove, a craggy shaggy > giant with spiral grain > and is possibly at least 350 years old – the tree has 2 > huge scars that could > have been markings made by Military Tract surveyor in 1790s – a > Sugar Maple Military Tract Witness Tree stood on that spot – this is > likely to be > that tree) > Sugar Maple 41.6” dbh (10.9 ft. > cbh) 121.5 ft. > massive tree with rugged shaggy bark > Sugar Maple 30.7” > dbh 119 ft. > most difficult tree to measure topmost branch very hard > to hit > 1 ft. 25.2” dbh > > Cottonwood across road from Comm. Center 76 ft. > Cottonwood Bldg. “G” Circle 66 ft. > Red Oak Bldg. “G” Circle 81 ft. > Douglas-fir by Bldg. “L” 49 > ft. > Scarlet Oak Arbor Day Tree 12 > ft. planted 2006 > Norway Spruce end Bldg. “B” 65.5 ft. > Cottonwood behind this Spruce 80 ft. > Cottonwood 3rd tree to east in clump of 4 92 ft. > should be tallest at Centerville > Court – these 4 slender Cottonwoods are over 80 years > old – I counted > over 85 rings on the stump of a same size Cottonwood > next to them. > Pitch Pine Woodwind Gardens 56 ft. > Woodwind Gardens is next door > and this Pitch Pine is growing in a small grove of young > Maples and Oaks. > It is the only Pitch Pine in a natural setting in North > Syracuse – it does not > seem to be a native tree this far west – the nearest > natural stand I know of > is near Rome NY. > > Tom Howard > 11/29/2009 > > > > North Syracuse NY Tree > Heights > 2009 > -- 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]
