James,
Thanks. We equally enjoyed meeting you and Joy. ENTS is a family of like-mined souls drawn together by our common love/enjoyment of trees. Each member has his/her own unique perspective and contribution to make. As long as we don't forget this, our voices will be heard and our impact will spread. Wow, what's in this stuff I'm drinking? Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Parton" <[email protected]> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 12:43:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Meet the Bragg Spruce and the Galehouse Pine Bob, That is the ultimate honor to befall an ent. To have a tree named for you by ENTS or by an ENTS member. Congratulations Don and Steve. Monica's warm smile brought a smile to my own face while viewing the photo of her and the Steve Galehouse Pine. Joy and I really enjoyed meeting her at the ENTS Black Mountain Gathering. James P. On Dec 20, 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 > > DonBraggEnglemannSpruce-2.jpg > 755KViewDownload > > HC-Baby-Whopper-2.JPG > 561KViewDownload -- 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]
