Gaines- A perfect example of appropriate levels of acccuracy...what ENTS ultimately wants is for spectacular trees to be measured with spectacular accuracy, when it's time to ascribe record heights. Your method is fine for bringing candidates to the attention of others able to more accurately measure them!
-Don > Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:44:12 -0800 > Subject: [ENTS] Re: currency of tall trees lists > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Will: > > A couple days before the 13th I will get in touch again and see > what exact times we can work with. If that doesn't work, we can aim > for the 21st. This will be very exciting for me! > > My tree sighting method is nothing much--I am almost embarrassed to > describe it. Basically it is just measuring a point up the tree > trunk, moving back a good distance, and then sighting a point double > the initial mark. I may hold up a rule to help me sight that. Then I > move further back and repeat the process. When I can I may go 100 > yards away to sight a final mark. I usually do this from several > angles and use several different marks if I want to get some really > spectacular tree reasonably accurately. Years ago at Belt woods I > went across the road into the housing development they built there in > the 1980's to so some final sightings. > > But I am lucky to get within about 5% But that is good enough to > identify trees that deserve more precise measurement. If I sight > several times from different directions and then average, I do best. > > --Gaines > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > On Jan 3, 4:11 pm, "Will Blozan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gaines, > > > > I am curious of your sighting method. Can you describe it? Sounds like you > > have a good eye, and I would gladly show you how we measure trees. The tulip > > in Rock Creek is a highly respectable 162'! > > > > I am coming up on the 13th-16th and likely the 21st or 22nd. > > > > Will F. Blozan > > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > > > "No sympathy for apathy" > > > > -- > 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] _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/ -- 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]
