Hi All, Dan Druckenbrod, now at Rider University - http://www.rider.edu/172_16940.htm - did research at Montpelier. There are old trees there, but there has been a good bit of human disturbance, too:
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2FBAMS-84-1-57&ct=1 http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/tree_rings.html http://nature.sbc.edu/forestconference/forestabstracts.html Happy New Yr All - looking forward to taller, bigger older trees and more old-growth forest in 2010! neil On Dec 31, 9:21 am, "Will Blozan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob, > > I never got the impression the site was old-growth. Neil Pedersen (or > colleague) has cored in there and they are less than 200 if I recall > correctly. I would consider it mature 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 Bob > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENTS] Re: The rest of the story > > Larry > > I think the tulips in the lower areas and closer to the estate > are between 160 and 200. In the old growth area probably a little > older. Will and Jess, what is your judgment? > > Bob > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 30, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Larry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Awesome Bob, Wowwww! Man thats a lot of tall tulips! It must be a > > fantastic sight to behold! Perhaps one day I could vistit Montpelier. > > How old are would you say these trees are? Larry > > > -- > > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > > Send email to [email protected] > > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group athttp://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]
