Nice trees, Mike! Dale
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:41 PM, shiplax <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
