Looking at your oaks here, I gotta say they'd be a challenge to core!
Don
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On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:43 AM, "Will" <[email protected]> wrote:
James, Larry
Regards your comment about the Chestnut tree on the Talladega. The
Talladega Mountains of central Alabama are just an extension of the
Appalachians, perhaps more technically the ridge and valley
province. I would not be surprised to find chestnut there. It also
occurs right across the GA line on Pine Mountain in West Central GA
near Columbus. While the American Chestnut's range skirts the
northern highlands of SC and GA, it continues down the west side of
GA taking in much of Alabama down almost to Montgomery. It also
includes much of NW Mississippi and an outlier along the Pearl River
down to the LA state line.
As for measuring the Angel Oak, the last time I was there it was in
a small unstaffed park off a dirt road in a still rural area of
Johns Island south of Charleston. I don't recall any fences or
anything that would preclude measuring the tree.
Here are some pictures of the tree from about seven or eight years
ago. Notice in the second photo the close up view of the branch on
the left side of the photo. I was leaning the camera against it. It
snakes up and out of the photo and then back in just showing the
sinuous length of the branches on this tree.
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