ENTS, After finishing up tallying trees in the Greendale Cemetery in Meaville, PA, I decided to take a peek into another valley behind Allegheny College. Actually, I was tipped to this area years ago by Dr. Gordon Whitney. He mentioned a big red oak behind campus that should be measured. So, on 3/16/09 & 3/23/09 I decided to take a more detailed look.
The fat red oak Gordon mentioned wasn't hard to find. It was right behind campus growing right on the edge of the ravine. Turned out to be quite a nice tree at 17.6ft CBH x 116.2ft high. Although I wouldn't consider the ravine forest old growth, it did have a number of old trees including white oak, black oak, and scarlet oak that should make it into the 200 year age class. Staghorn branching, bark balding, CWD, and snags were evident throughout much of the stand, so one could probably classify it as approaching secondary old growth status. There weren't any super tall trees, but there were a few new ones for the 12x100 club. All in all, it was a very nice very mature "study forest" for behind the campus. Tree tally follows: *Species CBH Height Comments* Am. beech N/A 89.7 Am. beech N/A 93.6 black locust 3.5 90.6+ black oak 11 96.1+ black oak 8.2 100.5 black oak 7.4 107.1 E. hophornbeam 1.8 53.6 N. red oak 12.1 75.8 N. red oak 10.4 102.4 N. red oak 11.9 104.7 N. red oak *13.1* 105.9 41 38.976N x 80 8.470W N. red oak N/A 106.9 N. red oak *12.4* 110.2 41 38.918N x 80 8.452W N. red oak *17.6* 116.2 41 38.929N x 80 8.472W red maple 8.5 97.7 red maple 10.9 107.4 scarlet oak 9.9 93.1+ sugar maple 5.3 96.1 sycamore 9.5 105.1+ sycamore *12.4* 110.2 41 39.052N x 80 8.483W sycamore 10.2 111.8 tuliptree 6.9 108.1 tuliptree 5.5 108.2 tuliptree 7.7 110.4 tuliptree 7.1 117.3 tuliptree 8 118.3 white oak 9.1 98.1 white oak N/A 101.1 white oak 9.5 104.8 white oak 6.7 111 white oak 6.9 114.4 white oak 7.1 116.4 Allegheny College Rucker Index = *105.06* Species CBH Height Comments tuliptree 8 118.3 white oak 7.1 116.4 N. red oak *17.6* 116.2 beautiful form sycamore 10.2 111.8 red maple 10.9 107.4 black oak 7.4 107.1 sugar maple 5.3 96.1+ scarlet oak 9.9 93.1+ black locust 3.5 90.6 Dale -- 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]
