Native Tree Society BBS

That's great Patrick!
-AJ

Did porky make all those tidy dung bits around the den opening? Very productive! I had a nice meeting with a porcupine in the middle of the night walking through the big meadow below the Trees of Peace grove in Mohawk a few years back. I got down on my hands and knees and we had a little eye-2-eye h...

Yep, it's too bad that the stuff is so heavily overused n agriculture, doesn't help the highly targeted use on hemlock. Nobody in politics or public policy likes subtlety and gray areas. With hemlocks going out of the ecosystem I worry about the bird species that depend on them. In winter black-capp...

The paper also mentions the unfortunate negative confluence of the introduced white pine blister rust with white pine weevil. If it was just the weevil attacking white pine it would be much less of a problem.
-AJ

Ok, this is good source material, White Pine Weevil is native. This paper addresses why WPW is successful in some white pine and not in others. http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/wp_weevil/weevil.htm White pine in mixed hardwood stands is much less susceptible to WPW. Open grown young white pin...

Joe I think you need to propose some educational workshops for Mass. foresters, perhaps get them approved for credit by the licensing board ;-)
-AJ

presumably that tree was the victim of the white pine weevil? Or is it old enough that the damage happened before the weevil? I have no idea when the weevil first arrived or has it always been here? Joe Pissodes strobi (White Pine Weevil) was described in 1817 by William Dandridge Peck, professor o...

I revisited the Hapgood Wright white pine on Friday 3/22/13. I made two measurements from roughly opposite sides and got the following: 1. 131.6' 2. 131.1' I think the slightly taller measurement is good, maybe Doug Bidlack can revisit and see what he gets. For CBH I got 12.8'. Measurements from Apr...

Great photos and subject Ed! To me the weathered white pine crown is the signature woods landscape element in New England and well worth exploring as a photographic and aesthetic subject. Served well with the black and white look.
-AJ

Mario your post reminds me, for pure get away from it all amongst the giants it's Jedediah Smith for me. Could easily spend 5 days there.
-AJ