Scott, Folks from the Missouri's Tree Ring Lab just sent us a nice prepared cross section of a white oak we collected last year from within the Fire Tower Road loop. The tree was estimated to have come down in 2006 with the core going back to 1657, which put it to 349 years. They dated a definite fire disturbance to 1689, with another undetermined disurbance in I believe 1865 (just recalling from memory, it's not in front of me at the moment).
I've got a cross section of a white oak that was felled in our campground to 330 rings to a 4" hollow center about 10' up in the air. I don't have the cookie in front of me, but it's close to 2ft across that high up. Dale On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Eli Dickerson <[email protected]>wrote: > It wasn't super old, but a recent white oak blow-down in Fernbank Forest > had *170 rings* on a 2.17' DBH stump. Forest grown of course. Some VERY > tight rings. > > A nearby Northern Red Oak had *140 rings* on a 1.92 DBH stump. > > Eli > > --- On *Tue, 12/22/09, pabigtrees <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: pabigtrees <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Fw: oldest counted white oaks - a synthesis > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 5:07 AM > > > Ed > > PSU cored and counted a living white oak that is part of the campus in > a wooded lot that was 333 years old. My best is a cut tree in Yeadon > Pa that was 247 years old. This area has several white oaks of the > same size and some larger that might be older. These are forest trees > in habit. > > Who else has an old white oak from the US? > > Scott > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to > [email protected]<http://us.mc530.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to > [email protected]<http://us.mc530.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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]<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]
