John
Probably starting around 10:30AM. Hope you can make it.
Bob
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On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:59 PM, John Eichholz <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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://
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>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> [image/jpeg:photo.jpg]
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>> JohnBrown-1.jpg
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>> JohnBrownLookingUp.jpg
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>> DoubleMastPine.jpg
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