Will- Those are great looking trees---I wish the tulips around here got to be that girth. The birch is huge as well.
Steve On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Will Blozan <[email protected]>wrote: > ENTS, > > > > Today, on a final mop-up session on a conservation area in Great Smoky > Mountains National Park, I had the opportunity to measure a few trees I had > previously seen or were located by park staff. The area, named Bearneck > Cove, is near the Cosby Campground in TN. > > > > The first was an impressive black birch 10’4” cbh X 106.7 feet tall > > > > Next up was a cucumbertree found by Jesse Webster (NPS Hemlock saving guy); > 14’ X 120.5’. This beast was slow tapered and massive! This area has an > impressive collection of cucumbertrees, some of which look very old. > > > > Later, we located a huge, gnarly tuliptree 20’6” in girth and ~140 feet > tall. Nearby trees were a bit over 150’. > > > > Will F. Blozan > > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > > > *"No sympathy for apathy"* > > > > -- > 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]<entstrees%[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]
