Garden State Parkway? How far are you going/did you go? The nearest exits to me are in the 40s.
--- On Fri, 12/25/09, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bob <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: VA Big Trees link To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 25, 2009, 10:33 AM 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 Sent from my iPhone 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. > > -- > 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] -- 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]
