I missed this before. I've got a couple of white oak cookies; they're not sanded well so the ring count is rough, but on one, I've counted a couple of times and got near 390, the other around 350. They're both from the Cashiers area.
On Jan 13, 6:33 pm, neil <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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