Will: Yes, get some cores--and confirm the heights. If you can do that, you should, or I, will contact the nearest university with a forestry research program and make sure this makes it into the literature. Not only will I be stunned, but there will be a lot of stunned foresters all over! If this is true, it needs to be known. The site should be analyzed, and the strain of WP tested.
I am skeptical, but if you can confirm the age and heights, I will be the first to admit that the forestry profession, which I am a very tangential part of, has missed something very important. --Gaines ----------------------------------------------------------
