Larry, I grew up in Succasunna (in Roxbury Township, Morris County). The woods behind our house was part of an old farm field that had been growing back up into woods since 1949. That's the woods I knew well. Plus behind the houses across the street there was a tiny miniature pine barrens growing in and around a very old sand pit, that no one knew the history of. Directly behind the houses there were oaks, huckleberries and bracken. But further back, on the rim of the sand pit, and in it, there were pitch pines as well. Naturally I drove through all kinds of forest types throughout Roxbury, Mount Olive and Washington Townships, plus sometimes portions of Warren, Sussex and Hunterdon Counties. But the woods I explored were those mentioned. But then we moved away in 1985. I think the whole state of New Jersey is awesome, for various reasons. I'm into big trees, but also many other things such as local history and architecture. So I love this state. If I walked into the woods behind our house up there, and turned left and got myself into the woods owned by my pastor, several hundred yards east, I got into a forest with big Beech trees. I never was sure what other kinds of trees were in that forest. The biggest Beech in that entire forest uprooted in a storm sometime after we moved away. I would love to have measured that baby. It was really big. Barry
--- On Fri, 1/15/10, x <[email protected]> wrote: From: x <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ENTS] Height Measurement To: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 8:23 PM Barry, you seriously need to do a northern NJ drive through next fall! Go up 513 (especially green pond road portion) and 23 and up past Clinton Reservoir. oh you will see some sugar maples! My backyard up here has a ton of old sugar maples (with a few white and red oaks, yellow birch, ironwood, tulip, ash, beech, hemlock, shagbark, etc mixed in), simply stunning in the fall, I'll post up some pics. -Larry From: Barry Caselli Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENTS] Height Measurement Amazing. I've never seen any kind of maple as big as that. But we don't have sugar maples here, and big trees are rare anyway. --- On Fri, 1/15/10, Jimmy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jimmy <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Height Measurement To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:55 PM I'm new to the game and still using the old Hold out a stick height measurement technique. How accurate is that? Here's a sugar maple I measured Using that Technique. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38649...@n08/4272915937/in/set-72157623216597308/ This is the largest forest grown sugar maple I've seen in Minnesota, 10'9" cbh 83' tall Crown 61'. How does that compare to other Sugars? -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] Email Options: http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/subscribe?hl=en -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] Email Options: http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/subscribe?hl=en -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] Email Options: http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/subscribe?hl=en
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