Spruce,
We have lots of more up-to-date numbers floating around. The problem isn't diminished interest or commitment to determining maximum species heights, it is just the enormity of the job. For example, I just returned from Virginia where I measured as many of the tuliptrees on the James Madison Estate as time permitted. I got up to 166.1 feet after a lot of remeasuring. That is about 2 feet under what another tree on the estate reaches. I wasn't able to locate it. The area I covered was under 200 acres. In Virginia tuliptrees are very common and there are endless possibilities for tall trees in the coves of the Blue Ridge and Alleghenies to the west. I hope to get back down to Virginia in spring. Maybe I can hook up with the champion tree people. But any way it goes, finding the tallest member of a species in a state is a never ending search. We only recently began to get truly good data out of Ohio. As long as Steve Galehouse and Randy Brown are in high gear, we'll accrue data from Ohio. But Indiana is entirely uncovered, and so it goes for many states. The states that have the best coverage include Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. Thanks to Jess Riddle, the mountainous region of South Carolina is pretty well covered. And there are tall tree hotspots in states like Tennessee that have been covered, but there is a lot of the state that hasn't been touched by ENTS. And so the story goes. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "spruce" <[email protected]> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2010 12:03:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] currency of tall trees lists I am new, so please forgive any ignorance I show here. I just came across the state-by-state list of tall trees. I see that most of the dates attached are somewhat old--2004, etc. Are these lists regularly updated? I am asking because of my interest in tall trees and I would have some suggestions for some trees that maybe should be measured. I am wondering if anyone would be interested in following up on any suggestions I might make? Or is the interest in measuring trees waning since the lists were originally created? --Spruce -- 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]
