Larry, Yeah, the coat threw my eyes for a loop! I hope an ENT with laser can visit the site- looks promising!
Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. "No sympathy for apathy" -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of x Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENTS] The Sourlands Giant! Hi Will, I don't think they did any photoshop work. The lighting and everything looks legit to me. They don't strike me as the types who would be inclined to do such a thing either and they have also invited serious big tree enthusiasts to come help them map so they would be crazy to have done a photoshop job. The only woodpile of sorts I see is in the foreground and it looks reasonably natural to me. Oh unless you mean the pattern at the bottom of the coat, just fabric. Anyway, perhaps it will turn out to be only old second-growth, but the old maps apparently imply that serious logging didn't occur early enough for it to have had time to grow back that large (not on a NJ mountain top anyway, I know when I was in NC stuff appeared to grow quite a bit faster). I'm still betting on old-growth for now myself. At the least, it looks both older and larger to me than some of the stuff at a few of the sites for NJ listed in the Ancient Forests guide. What I am far less sure about it whether it will just be this one maybe 5 acre patch with the rest showing a lot more signs of past cutting, even if still old, or whether there might be somehwat more extensive acreage like this. -Larry -------------------------------------------------- From: "Will Blozan" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:13 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [ENTS] The Sourlands Giant! > Nice tree and forest but the person appears to be "photo-shopped" in. Note > the wood pile in the background and remnant artifacts near the camera. > Weird. Could be old second-growth. > > Will F. Blozan > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > "No sympathy for apathy" > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dinomys4 > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:55 AM > To: ENTSTrees > Subject: [ENTS] The Sourlands Giant! > > Here is a link to the incredible mountain top tulip on Sourlands > Mountain in NJ! > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j2p5nPYXDPo/SY9HBciWVzI/AAAAAAAAADc/il2Lx0m6nl0/s1 > 600-h/Giant+Tulip+2+NJ_20090208_327.jpg > > (note again the photo is NOT mine) > > That has got to be a patch of old-growth forest no? > > A new entry for NJ? > > I'm trying to get in touch with the guy who took the photo to find out > more. > > -- > 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] -- 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]
