Native Tree Society BBS

Owen, You've really peaked our interest in that part of Canada. I was especially interested in the 102-foot white ash you confirmed. I've long wondered about the height gradient for that species. Where does it drop below and stay below a 100-foot maximum? Interesting observations about white and red...

TC, Joe, et. al., I run hot and cold on the technology issue. Obviously, I like a lot of it because I have lots of gizmos to use for tree measuring. I have an LTI TruPulse 200X on the way - no small investment there. I grew up with a much earlier technology, even remembering phones from very early c...

Joe, Interesting perspective. I'm not sure that life before technology was actually that good. I know you speak to the simplicity of life then, but survival was not guaranteed and people lived in great fear of nature, creating gods out of just about everything. What really disappoints me these days ...

Joe, These days, we are accustomed to see species underperforming in our forests. There is a variety of reasons for the underperformance. We both know some of those reasons. What happens, though, is that we lose sight of what different species evolved to be down through the millennia under the condi...

Joe,

Yes, that is larger than our largest, but consistent with what other tree species can reach, size wise, in southern PA relative to Massachusetts.

Bob

George,

That stripped maple is huge. I mean really huge. I've measured them up to 3.6 feet in girth. That must be at least a state champion.

Bob

T.C.,

I emailed Ed Frank and he couldn't find anything to prevent your posts from showing up. I don't know what is happening. If you email me some images. I'll post them for you until we can figure out what is happening.

Bob

Will, We can use all the advice we can get. Any time is appropriate. In your case, since you are the Vice President on Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest, your input is especially relevant. Gaines, I defer to Will on advice. Will is the most experienced treater of hemlocks on the planet. No close ...

That spruce is a beauty. I've measured quite a few red spruce in the Adirondacks. The larges girths are 90 to 100 inches, but trees of that size are very rare. I've measured heights to about 112 feet. So, your red spruce fits in nicely. In Massachusetts, I've measured red spruce to about 90 inches C...

NTS, On Dec 6th, my wife Monica, friend Ray Asselin, and I began identifying hemlocks in MTSF for treatment this spring by DCR. It launches a long term hemlock treatment program. MTSF carries a high priority property. We're starting with the hemlocks along a river terrace that includes a grove of wh...