Many thanks to Bob and Bart for letting me tag along at Forest Park today it was great. This tree identifying has a much higher learning curve then I thought. I will have to start cracking the books alot more and get in better shape. Thanks for the help in getting up that final hill. Sam
________________________________ From: James Parton <[email protected]> To: ENTSTrees <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 7:34:24 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Forest Park with Bart and Sam Bob, That Pitch Pine catches my attention first. That bark looks older than most I see. JP On Jan 11, 5:53 pm, [email protected] wrote: > ENTS, > > Bart Bouricius, Sam Goodwin, and I went to Forest Park today to measure and > document trees. I'll get right to the numbers and then describe the attached > images. The measurements are listed in the order taken. > > Species Height Girth > > White pine 131.3 9.5 > Pitch pine 89.0 6.7 > American beech 100.6 8.8 > American beech 108.8 9.5 > N. red oak 98.0 12.8 > W. oak 103.0 9.2 > Black birch 105.5 9.0 > White pine 134.5 10.5 > White Pine 97.7 9.9 > N. red oak 108.1 12.5 > Hemlock 131.9 8.8 > White pine 134.4 6.8 > Hemlock 128.9 9.5 > White pine 130.9 > White pine 133.0 > White pine 120.9 > White pine 133.7 > Hemlock 113.9 > Hemlock 114.3 > > The two hemlocks were sweet. Description of images follow. > > WP134_5.jpg shows the 134.5-foot white pine. > Beech2AndSam.jpg show the 108.8-ft tall, 9.5-ft girth American beech. Very > impressive for Massachusetts. > PPAndBart.jpg shows the 89-ft tall, 6.7-ft girth pitch pine. It's a beauty. > NRO12_5AndBart.jpg shows the 108-ft tall, 12.5-ft girth N. red oak. A very > impressive tree. > NRO12_8AndBart.jpg show the 98-ft tall, 12.8-ft girth N. red oak, also very > impressive > > So, to this point, we have measured 6 white pines to over 130 feet and 4 > hemlock to over 120, with 1 over 130. Sweet! Bart knows of another section of > the park with good potential. There are likely many black birch and beech > over 100 feet. We're edging toward a RHI. I now believe it will be between > 108 and 109. > > Bob > > WP134_5.jpg > 729KViewDownload > > Beech2AndSam.jpg > 655KViewDownload > > PPAndBart.JPG > 402KViewDownload > > NRO12_5AndBart.jpg > 698KViewDownload > > NRO12_8AndBart.jpg > 524KViewDownload
