John,
Soooooa Doooopa! Yes, the road hemlock becomes our tallest. Bummer.
Can you join us tomorrow for the climb of the Thoreau Pine? We'll
meet at the Charlemont Inn at 8:30AM.
That 109.2 x 11.5 is a honey. There is a much larger hemlock up
on the side of the ridge, south side, around the curve from Black
Brook going east. It's high on the ridge- hard to reach. It has a big
basal swell. It's on a very steep slope.it's girth approaches 13 feet.
We should go visit it. It isn't tall. I think it is in the high 90s.
Bob
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On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:57 PM, John Eichholz <[email protected]>
wrote:
> ENTS:
>
> I have made a point of remeasuring all of the 120'+ eastern hemlocks I
> know of in Western Massachusetts. As I do so, I am trying to record
> with drawings and maps the exact location of the trees, so they can be
> tracked over time.
>
> On a recent trip to Black Brook in Savoy, I was able to recover the 2
> I had in my records: the old MTSF champ (was 130'+) lost some top
> over the winter, and currently measures 123.9'h x 11.7'c. I have been
> re-taking the cbh at 4.5' above the midpoint of the upper and lower
> basal planes. In most cases where I have old pins I am finding them
> to be above the new 4.5' point. In the case of this tree, the pin was
> at 5.7', where the girth was 11.2'. A second tree at the opposite
> bank and downstream from the first measured 122.8' x 9.0'. There were
> at least 6 more hemlocks between 110' and 120', and one more fat one
> at 109.2'h x 11.5'c. The two fat trees are among the largest girth
> hemlocks in Mohawk Trail State Forest.
>
> The same day I stopped at the entrance parking lot on route 2 and
> remeasured two more: One is by a split rock and measures 124.9' x
> 7.9', and a second almost at the road measures 127.5' x 8.1'. The
> latter tree is now the tallest I have records for in MTSF, but I'll
> keep looking!
>
> John
>
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