Native Tree Society BBS

Hi All, Long-time, no speak. Apologies NTS. I'm now at the Harvard Forest in MA and with a couple wee sprouts in my family. It has been a good, busy road. I want to share some exciting news: the old cucumbertree at Cook Forest is provisionally crossdated. By that I mean we have measured up three rad...

Hi Rand, We do this in a couple of ways. We compare radial growth to monthly maximum measured temperatures and then total monthly precipitation to get some insight on how trees respond to climate. You are correct in that sometimes it is hotter it is sometimes dry. I just compared average monthly max...

Dear NTS,

Cari Leland of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is completing a limited tree ring chronology of this species from Black Rock Forest in southern NY for a class project. So far, the oldest H. virginiana dated is 58 years old. http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~adk/oldlisteast/

neil

Dear NTS, We have some data that can be added to this hypothesis. Dario Martin-Benito and I have a paper in review of the climate response of eight broadleaf species, including tulip, from Georgia through to northern Vermont; hopefully it passes peer review this time. The first conclusion might not ...

Dear NTS, Apologies for little activity. Life has sped up recently. I am trying to slow it a bit so I can participate more here. I write with good news: First, I got to meet Russ Carlson in person at the North American Dendroecological Fieldweek at Black Rock Forest last week. I learned a lot about ...

nice find, Josh - looking to hear how old those trees are!

neil

Dear NTS,

I posted in the Hemlock Legacy Project already, but want to drop a quick note here as well.

The project's web site is now live here: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/hemlocklegacy/

There are many ways to participate. Please join in and HeLP as you can.

thank you,
neil

Dear NTS, The Hemlock Legacy Project page is now live here: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/hemlocklegacy/ From there you can sign up, nominate sites not on the site list, and get involved in many ways. The project is just starting to gear up. We are in this for the long haul and it could be complex project ...

Dear NTS of the eastern US and Canada, There is a new opportunity for citizen science that is right up our alley: collecting and preserving hemlock samples before they are lost through the Hemlock Legacy Project - HeLP. There will be an article coming out soon in a mainstream source about it and the...

Dear NTS of the eastern US and Canada, There is a new opportunity for citizen science that is right up our alley: collecting and preserving hemlock samples before they are lost through the Hemlock Legacy Project - HeLP. There will be an article coming out soon in a mainstream source about it and the...