hi All, I contacted a colleague in the forestry Dept at VaTech about this report. This person said they never heard about it. They said a large tree was cut on campus, but likely about 300 yrs.
neil On Jan 13, 9:25 am, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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