You know I hate to hear to stories like that. Why in the world was it cut? Was it dead, broken off, or what? And this is neither here nor there, but the email subject line of this thread has been driving me nuts all along. It should be synopsis, not synthesis. 600 years?? Wow.
--- On Mon, 1/11/10, ranger dan <[email protected]> wrote: From: ranger dan <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Fw: oldest counted white oaks - a synthesis To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, January 11, 2010, 2:26 PM Just a rumour...I believe I heard a report that a Quercus alba recently cut down at Virginia Tech was aged at over 600 years. Dr. Jeffry Kirwan ([email protected]) is the big tree man there (author of Remarkable Trees of Virginia, excellent book). Dan Miles
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