Barry, That first picture shows pines that look pretty tall. I would be very curious to see how tall Pitch Pine gets in the barrens.
JP On Jan 4, 2:18 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > Today I took a ride to the extreme northeast corner of Egg Harbor City, to > Clark's Landing, on the Mullica River. To go there you have to leave Egg > Harbor and go through a bit of Galloway Township before crossing back into > Egg Harbor. I passed by a county public works crew that was cutting up a > large Pitch Pine that had fallen over across the road in the high winds. > After about 45 minutes at Clark's Landing I drove back the way I had come. I > then decided to pull over on the side of the road and count the rings on the > cut tree. The cut is at about 20 feet up the trunk from the base. I took out > my tape measure and measured the diameter at that point, which was 19.75 > inches, and photographed the tape at the edge of the tree trunk. I then > started to count the rings, but found that within the last inch, closest to > the bark, the rings were so thin, and so close together, I would have needed > a magnifying glass. Further away from the bark they were very thin and very > close also, but not as bad as that. So I took some macro photos of the outer > part of the tree. I took notice of two very dark rings that were easy to see > and remember later. I took my pictures so that those two rings were visible > in the picture. I then counted from the center to those two rings. > So from the center to those two rings (including them) is 42, give or take > one ring. Then looking at the macro photo on my computer I counted the rings > from those two rings towards the bark, and I came up with 71, give or take a > couple. > Now for the photos. > The first one shows some of the trees behind the one that fell. Then you can > see the down tree trunk, and then part of the trunk showing the rings. The > two dark rings I used for reference or in the upper right corner of that > photo. I also show a view down the road. This is not in a state park, forest > or preserve. It's just a rural area. > All told, the ring count is aproximately 110 at aproximately 20 feet up from > the base. > Pitch Pines of this size are very common in the non-desert-like areas > throughout the Pine Barrens. > Here's a satellite view from Bing Maps. The tree was aproximately in the > middle of that view, on the north side of the road.http://tinyurl.com/ycrzzrj > Barry > > > DSC07277.JPG > 480KViewDownload > > DSC07278.JPG > 387KViewDownload > > DSC07279.JPG > 422KViewDownload > > DSC07280.JPG > 305KViewDownload > > DSC07281.JPG > 282KViewDownload > > DSC07283.JPG > 326KViewDownload > > DSC07288.JPG > 368KViewDownload -- 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]
