Bob- Thank you so much for the dedication of that beautiful Ponderosa Pine---I'm familiar with the species as an ornamental, but have never seen one in its native state(Minnesota is the farthest west I've ever traveled). I hope some day I'll make it to Colorado to pay it a visit. Thank you again,
Steve On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > It is time to officially recognize through tree dedications the many > accomplishments of super Ents Dr. Don Bragg and Steve Galehouse. Don's > contribution to ENTS as the editor of the Bulletin of the Eastern Native > Tree Society is beyond measurement and Steve has long been an outstanding > contributor to the ENTS list. Now, and along with Randy Brown, Steve is now > putting the special trees of Ohio into the ENTS database. So in this > Yule-tide season of good will, Treebeard has instructed me, just a humble > Ent, to dedicate worthy trees in honor of Don and Steve. Oh, the weight of > the responsibility! > > My first impulse was to choose two pines from either Mohawk Trail or Monroe > State Forest, but then I remembered two very special Colorado trees. One is > a huge ponderosa growing in Hermosa Creek canyon in the La Plata range of > the Colorado Rockies. This will be Steve's tree. The attached image > "HC-Baby-Whopper-2.JPG" shows that the great tree speaks for itself. I will > leave it to Don Bertolette to pass final judgement on its age. It is a > patriarch, though. No doubt of that. The Galehouse Pine's dimensions are CBH > = 11.0 feet and height = 115.0 feet. The presence and power of the great > tree are unmistakable. Monica stands next to it for scale. So Steve you must > one day visit your pine. > > The tree reserved for Don is an Englemann Spruce shown in image > "DonBraggEnglemannSpruce-2.jpg". It is not just any Englemann. It is the > tallest tree at the altitude of two miles or more above sea level that I > have measured. The Englemann grows along a stream in La Plata Canyon and > measures 9.5 feet in girth and reaches the remarkable height of 137.0 feet. > There are plenty of 115 - 120-foot Engemann spruces in the area, but this > one was clearly the tallest we saw. La Plata Canyon and other canyons in the > La Platas hold endless promise for big and/or tall trees of at least two > species: ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. > > I will put together a list of Colorado trees with images that bear ENTS > names in a future email. > > Bob > > -- > 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]
