Jimmy
There are a number of sugar maples about that size in various old growth
remnants in Minnesota, such as Wolsfeld Woods, and Crosby Manitou. I
can't remember any quite that large in circumference from Nerstand Big
Woods State Park, but there are some taller ones there. The really big
Sugar maples in the region are in The Porcupine Mountains Wilderness
State Park in Upper Michigan. There are numerous specimens there with
much larger trunks and also 20 feet taller, especially in the area
around the Presque Isle Campground. The Driftless Area of southwestern
Wisconsin also has very large sugar maples in the coulees. Coulees are
v-shaped valleys carved in the karst by streams, and many of them are
several hundred feet deep and have seepages, making ideal conditions for
large trees.
Lee
Barry Caselli wrote:
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?
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