Steve,
You members of the Ohio ENTS A-team are wicked cool dudes. Ohio has some very, very fine places. Thanks for sharing them with us. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Galehouse" <[email protected]> To: "ENTS" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2009 6:14:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] South Chagrin Reservation ENTS- Today I quickly visited another area Metro-park, South Chagrin Reservation, which is along the Chagrin River about 12 miles from North Chagrin Reservation, which I briefly reported on last week. The topograhy is hilly with deep ravines or glens where creeks flow, primarily a beech forest in the uplands along with hemlock and birches in the ravines and river gorge. This is an area that has sweet birch in addition to yellow birch--sweet birch is very infrequent and localized in distribution in N Ohio. Also saw Canada yew, another rather rare plant for the area. The ravines and river gorge have a very "Northern" fell about them, which disappears in the less dissected hills. I did not spend much time measuring, the tallest hemlock I measured was 119', but in other areas of the park they should easily be in the 120's, and the taller hardwoods weren't noticed until the drive out of the park. This is another area I hope to explore more thoroughly this winter. Some photos attached. Steve -- 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]
