Hey Bob, what is your time line for the climb? I can probably show up to watch.
John On Dec 3, 8:39 pm, [email protected] wrote: > ENTS, > > Yesterday I sent a rather poor image from MTSF of the John Brown tree taken > by my iPhone camera. The attached images are from Monica's Nikon digital > camera - a little better. > > JohnBrown-1.jpg: The tree on the left is the 160.8-foot John Brown white > pine. The tags at the bases of the trees are affixed by Friends of Mohawk > Trail State Forest-ENTS. They identify the trees for research purposes. > > JohnBrownLookingUp.jpg: This image looks straight up the trunk of the > 160-footer. The John Brown tree is rather slim. Its girth is 8.0 feet. That > isn't very large, but it has a very healthy crown and should get a good bit > taller and maybe a foot and a half larger around. > > DoubleMastPine.jpg: The pine in the center and in the background splits into > two trunk far up the tree. This is the Double Mast Pine. It grows right on > the side of the road, the colonial Mohawk Trail. A number of years ago, I > confirmed the Double Mast Pine as the 1st 150-footer in the mast pine area of > the Trees of Peace. It was just over 150 at the time. It is now 156.2 feet > and 9.0 feet in girth. > > Tomorrow is a big day. Andrew Joslin and his companions will climb the > Thoreau pine in Monroe State Forest. We will find out if the tree has lost of > its status as a 160-footer. From the ground, I can't get more than 158 and > some change. The Thoreau pine has always been a bear to measure from the > ground. So, it is Andrew to the rescue. We'll give a full report tomorrow. > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob" <[email protected]> > To: "ENTS" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:20:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] John Brown pine > > ENTS From today's measuring marathon, the following image shows the John > Brown tree. At 160.8 ft, it should look tall and it does. John Brown is the > chief of the Rhode Island Naragansetts. He and my deceased wife Jani worked > closely together on many Indian issues. John has been to his tree. Bob -- > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.orgSend email to > [email protected] Visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=enTo unsubscribe send email to > [email protected] > Sent from my iPhone > > [image/jpeg:photo.jpg] > > > > JohnBrown-1.jpg > 609KViewDownload > > JohnBrownLookingUp.jpg > 692KViewDownload > > DoubleMastPine.jpg > 715KViewDownload -- 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]
