Will, A 147ft Red Spruce?! Damn impressive!
JP On Nov 1, 1:22 pm, "Will Blozan" <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > Yesterday I was in Cataloochee up Pretty Hollow Creek Trail scouting a > hemlock treatment site. The site was on Onion Bed Branch- nice old (mostly > dead from HWA) hemlocks but a spruce stood out as clearly one of the taller > trees up there. I did not have my diameter tape with me but the ~8 foot cbh > spruce reached 147.1 feet. Jess Riddle was here in 2003 but his report > doesn't mention a tree this tall. I did see the 142 foot spruce he > mentioned. > > On the way down I measured a witch-hazel to ~22" cbh X 47.9' tall. This may > be the second tallest recorded; bested only by a 53 footer on a nearby > creek. I'll get the girth of both trees when I return to treat the surviving > hemlocks. > > Will F. Blozan > > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > "No sympathy for apathy" > > image001.jpg > 98KViewDownload -- 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]
