Dale, Please explain what is your definition of old growth? At amny of your old sites, you have numerous old trees, but are reluctant or won't call it old growth. What is your definition? What is the difference between say this site and what this site would look like if it were old growth?
Ed http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ http://primalforests.ning.com/ http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=709156957 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. -- 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]
