Native Tree Society BBS

ENTS, As the clock ticks away, NTS seems to be fading away. Lately, we've been indebted to Brian Beduhn for keeping us afloat with meaningful data on the southern Appalachian tall tree hotspots. Different people have taken a turn at posting, but the daily number of posts for such a distinguished org...

Brian,

Here is Look Park, Northampton, MA. A little out of date, but I'll bring it up to the present soon.

Bob

Ents, Figuring out the volume of the above ground part of a tree is an NTS specialty. Above ground volume, its dry biomass, and the carbon component of the biomass is the purpose of a model developed in 2005. I call an adaptation of that model FIA-COLE and use it to compute volume and biomass of a n...

Ents, Today Jared Lockwood and I went up stream on little Broad Brook to update the sites RHI. Screen Shot 2020-05-16 at 6.26.10 PM.png This is basically our backyard. I expect that we can improve on white oak and maybe white ash. Oh yes, the pignut hickory noe has a name. It's Miss Piggy. Bob

Ents More from the Bay State. The second highest RHI in MA is Ice Glen in Stockbridge. Here it is as current as I can make it. Species Height White Pine 160.2. (Jared Lockwood) White ash 140.3 E. hemlock 136.7 Shagbark Hickory 135.5 Black Cherry 121.4 A. Elm 121.0 A. Basswood 117.5 N. red oak 114.1 ...

Ents, I'm going to follow Brian's lead and begin posting RHIs from here in Massachusetts. Site: Northampton, MA S pecies Height White Pine 144.5 Tuliptree 140.5 A. sycamore 125.5 Pignut hickory 120.0 E. Hemlock 119.5 N. red oak 118.5 Black locust 116.0 E. cottonwood 115.0 Pin oak 113.5 RHI = 123.4 S...

Bryan,

We have a lot more Massachusetts sites than those listed. I’ll post them in the next few days to keep your good work rolling. BTW, the WP for MTSF is 176.2 feet now.

Bob

John, We welcome you back into the fold. As of late, the BBS has been lightly visited, but it continues to serves as an archive for valuable big tree/tall tree information available nowhere else. We also continue to make progress on measurement methods, although that subject is of relatively minor i...

Brian, You have amassed a highly valuable dataset on tall trees by site in the southern Appalachians. I encourage you to put it all together in a PDF organized by state and site. Basically, you are the only one left in the mountain South of an original strong southern team of tree measurers, and we ...

Ents, For some measuring diversion, I've been looking at canyons on Google Earth with the intention of validating claims made by Internet posters about which is the biggest, deepest, etc. For extent, of course, the Grand Canyon wins, but one commonly reads that the deepest canyon in the contiguous U...