Gary- Have you found In your role as an educator, that punctuation in these days of texting and twitterrs, no longer seems to be attended to?
-Don > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENTS] Historical references to tall northeast white pine > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:25:31 -0500 > > Wow, how old is your friend?!?! > > Gary > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Andrew Joslin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > A friend sent me this reference to a 200 foot pine measured in 1899: > > > > Page 203 of /Forest Trees of the Northeast /(Cornell Cooperative > > Extension Information Bulletin 235 pub. 1996 ISBN1-57753-012-8): > > "Maximum longevity is considered to be about 350 years, though > > individuals aged 450 and older have been found. A tree cut near > > Lyncoming, Pennsylvania, in 1899 of unknown age was 12 feet in > > diameter > > and 200 feet tall." > > > > The diameter measurement is very impressive! The height is plausible. > > -Andrew > > > > -- > > 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] _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos-tours.aspx?h=7sec&slideid=1&media=aero-shake-7second&listid=1&stop=1&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_7secdemo:122009 -- 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]
