The past couple of weeks I have been poking around some of the Natural Lands Trust preserves in SE PA and have found two impressive noteworthy trees to report. The first was from the Cheslen Preserve which is about 8 miles west of West Chester on the Strasburg Rd.
American Sycamore circumference 23.1 spread 102x96 height 66.2 The second is from the Crows Nest Preserve which is adjacent to Hopewell National Historic Site and French Creek State Park. This is in an eco region known as the Hopewell Big Woods which consists of 73,000 acres of continuous forest of which 18,000 is protected. This is rare in SE PA where interior forest is few and far between. The Natural Lands Trust has been prominent in advocating further preservation of this vital region of SE PA Tulip Tree circumference 15.1 spread 60x87 height 115.4
