James
And merry Christmas to you and Joy. Presently Monica and I are on
the Garden State Parkway headed south. Holy Moly,as Dale would say,
how do people handle the congestion down here? I forget between trips.
I'm glad Barry has the pine barrens.
Bob
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On Dec 24, 2009, at 10:43 AM, James Parton <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Git er done Bob. I don't know any better one to fix this problem than
> you. Too bad you don't have Will Blozan with you. You guys are our
> best.
>
> Merry Christmas: James P.
>
> On Dec 24, 9:01 am, [email protected] wrote:
>> ENTS,
>>
>> Tomorrow Monica and I head to Virginia to visit two great friends:
>> Dr. Nancy Weiss and Carol Wise. Nancy has set up some kind of tree
>> measuring session for me. Other VA friends are supposed to be
>> there. Hopefully, I will be able to make some inroads. VA is a
>> former state of residence of mine. I have deep roots in Virginia
>> and a great fondness for the Old Dominion.
>>
>> Virginia isn't geographically far from Pennsylvania, but sadly, its
>> champion tree program lags. Below, I've copied the VA champion tree
>> program description of how to measure tree height. It is
>> inexcusably weak. The VA coordinators need to pay attention to what
>> is going on in the tree-measuring world. They can simply reference
>> Will Blozan's tree measuring guidelines on the ENTS website. Will
>> has done all the work. The VA boys just need to cash in - for free.
>> Thanks to enlightened Ents Scott Wade, Don Bertolette, Will Fell,
>> etc. PA, AK, and GA are at the top of the food chain. VA is still
>> bottom feeding. Gotta help out my former state of residence.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> From VA champion tree website: Tree Height
>> Measuring Height
>>
>> There are many tools that can be used to estimate the height of a
>> tree including something as simple as a stick, but if at all
>> possible height measurements should be confirmed by an expert such
>> as a local arborist, forester, or Big Tree Coordinator.
>>
>> The vertical height of a tree is measured in feet. It can be
>> measured using an Abney hand level, a hypsometer, a transit, a
>> clinometer , a relascope, a laser or other instrument designed for
>> that purpose.
>>
>> Alternatively, you can use the stick method:
>>
>> Hold the stick at its base vertically, making certain that the
>> length of the stick above your hand equals the distance from your
>> hand to your eye. Staying on ground level (or on the same contour
>> as the base of the tree), move away from the tree while sighting
>> the trunk base above your hand. Stop when the top of the stick is
>> level with the top of the tree. You should be looking over your
>> hand at the base of the tree and, moving only your eyes, looking
>> over the top of your stick at the top of your tree. Measure how far
>> you are from the tree and that measurement - in feet - is the
>> tree's height.
>
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