Bob, ooooooooh, tall hemlocks, eh? I'll have to check it out sometime!
John On Jan 5, 8:29 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Will, > > I was moving along looking for tall trees - scoping it out. I didn't go down > and take girth measurements. Those are guesses. > > As Bart had correctly determined, there are plenty of hemlocks in the 120 ft > class. Lots of work left to be done. > > Bob > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Will Blozan" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7:33:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [ENTS] Forest Park in Springfield > > Bob, > > What a hemlock! What is the “approximately” stuff ;)? > > Will F. Blozan > > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > "No sympathy for apathy" > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 5:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Forest Park in Springfield > > ENTS, > > Today Bart Bouricius and I visited Forest park in Springfield to assess the > park's potential for significant trees and a high Rucker Index. Forest Park > is Springfield's forested park. It cover 735 acres and has some ravines that > harbor mature oaks (white, red, black), white pines, and eastern hemlocks. > After looking at the trees in about half of the high growth areas, I think > the RI will eventually reach between 104 and 108 for Forest Park. We measured > 3 trees that were especially significant. They follow. > > Species Height-ft Girth-ft > > N. red oak 105.0 12.2 (12 x 100 club) > > Hemlock 125.4 approx 7 ft > > W. pine 131.5 approx 8.5 ft > > The most significant tree we measured is a large northern red oak. Its > dimensions are CBH=12.2 feet and height = 105.0 feet. It joins the 12 x 100 > club. > > The attached image is of Bart next to a white oak measuring 10.4 feet around. > Our time proved limited. This is only the first excursion. > > Bob > > -- Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.orgSend email to > [email protected] Visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=enTo unsubscribe send email to > [email protected]
