Ed, I just re-read your message... blew through it the first time. I see what you were getting at now, an index for trees outside of Cook Forest on the Clarion.
I reviewed my other data for the entire Clarion including Cook, but we still have no different tree species that will bump any already listed in the Clarion River RI. I do have you and Carl's data. Dale On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Dale Luthringer <[email protected] > wrote: > Ed, > > I was wondering about you & Carl's data... I looked back in my file and > noticed I entered in some of your stuff, but wasn't sure if I had all of > it. There's some you list below that I forgot to include. > > The shagbark is down on the flat about a mile below Gravel Lick on Carl's > side of the river. > > Also, I forgot to review my Clear Creek data, and take another look at our > Millstone data. > > I'll review my list and add your data in below if I haven't already. Wow, > got to remember that I'm not the only one doing this anymore on the > Clarion... > > Dale > > > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Edward Frank <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dale, >> >> Nice to see some of this data being updated. I was looking at the Clarion >> River Rucker Index and data from more recent trips to the river. Do you >> have the measurements Carl and I took between the Gravel Lick Bridge and >> Mill Creek from Oct 2008? Anyway. almost all of the trees in the upper end >> of your Rucker index are from Cook Forest itself. However three are some >> heights for other species outside of the park that would make the tallest >> for the species from areas outside of Cook Forest: Clarion River Rucker >> Index: >> http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/penna/clarion_river_rucker_index_pa.htm >> (Sept >> 2008) >> >> Dotted hawthorn 2.3 41.7 Portland Mills >> Juneberry N/A 67.5 Portland Mills >> Shagbark hickory 4.5 113.6 SGL-Piscataqua >> N. red oak 10.1 126.7 CCSP-River Trail >> Red maple 8.2 106.4 CCSP-River Trail >> Sugar maple 6.4 110.4 CCSP-Irish Rock Trail >> Yellow birch 6.6 99.2 CCSP-Minich Run >> doted hawthorn 2.5 43.4 Millstone Creek >> Am. Hornbeam 2.9 38.0 Millstone Creek >> silver maple 9.7 107.3 Portland Mills >> staghorn sumac 1.7 36.9 Portland Mills >> >> sycamore 4.8 130.6 Portland Mills >> >> CCSP is Clear Creek State Park a few miles upstream from Cook Forest. >> Millstone Creek Area >> http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/penna/millstone/millstone_creek_area.htm >> is >> farther upstream along the Clarion than Clear Creek State Park, but not >> nearly as far as Portland Mills. I am not sure where the SGL at Piscataqua >> is located. - I believe it is below the Gravel Lick Bridge a few miles >> downstream from Cook Forest. >> >> I know there are some taller black gum and witch hazel along the river >> south of the park that Carl and I encountered on our canoe trip in October >> 2008 >> http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/penna/gravellick/clarion_river_gravel_lick_to_mil.htm >> but >> unfortunately we did not measure them. At the time we did not realize they >> would be the tallest documented yet in the corridor. >> >> Ed Frank >> >> http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ >> http://primalforests.ning.com/ >> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=709156957 >> >> -- >> >> 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]<entstrees%[email protected]> >> >> >
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