| RE:
Forest Summit schedule |
Robert
Leverett |
| Sep
30, 2004 06:39 PDT |
ENTS:
A little more information on the upcoming
October events. Ecology and
big tree lectures will be held at Holyoke Community College in
the
evenings of Oct 21 and Oct 22 from 6:30PM until 9:30PM. The
lectures are
free to the public. Please consult the HCC website for details
at
http://www.hcc.edu The lectures will all be great. With Bob Van Pelt,
Will
Blozan, Dale Luthringer, Chuggie Kingfisher, and Eleanor
Tillinghast,
how can they not? Bob Van Pelt will present 3 lectures.
Friday Oct 22nd will be spent looking at old
growth and big trees in
various places in the Berkshire region of western Massachusetts.
We can
probably agree here on a meeting place for those who might like
to join
us. The meeting places will probably be the Charlemont Inn in
Charlemont, MA, where we will likely meet for breakfast at
10:00AM.
We'll notify of any changes by e-mail to this list.
Saturday's agenda at MTSF will be posted to
the HCC website. We'll
likely have social events in the evenings at my house for ENTS
members
and special guests. There will be at least some music. I think
Tom
Diggins is bringing his banjo, Gary Beluzo his guitar, and a
couple of
Celtic musicians will join us. Folk singers Jon and Peg Rishel
will be
there.
The Forest Summit lecture events of Oct 21 and
22 at HCC will be
dedicated to my wife Jani who passed away on Dec 30, 2003. There
will be
a PowerPoint presentation with music honoring her from around
6:00PM
until 6:30PM of Oct 21 and 22. Jani was the co-founder and
president of
Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest, the Director of the
Massachusetts
chapter of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a consultant to
the
original Sunbow Five Corporation, one of the conceptualizers of
ENTS,
and a constant source of inspiration to her many admirers (of
which, I
count myself as #1 by a long shot). Jani once spoke at the
United
Nations and participated in the largest gathering of indigenous
medicine
people that the planet had ever seen - held at Six Nations in
Ontario.
ENTS rendezvous/gatherings are cool events.
Way cool! So far we've
had the following to the best of my aging memory:
Oct 1996 Wachusetts Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary
Oct 1998 Wachusetts Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary
Oct 2001 Mohawk Trail State Forest
April 2002 Cook Forest PA
April 2003 Cook Forest PA
Oct 2003 Mohawk Trail State Forest
ENTS events are often held in conjunction with
others as will be the
case for this October. The rendezvous place most of the emphasis
on
getting out in the field. Most events are accompanied by one or
more
significant tree climbs. There could be several during this
year's event
including climbs of the huge Thoreau pine in Monroe State
Forest. We
want to resume our volume modeling of the trees of that size.
The
current stats for the Thoreau pine are:
CBH
= 12.5 feet
Height
= 156.9 feet
Spread
= 40 feet.
Will and Bob will take numerous circumference
measurements and we
will model the great pine for trunk and limb volume.
Places we hope to visit during the period of
Oct 20-25 include:
1. Monroe State Forest- Dunbar
Brook area: Large swath of O.G. and
many big trees,
2. Bryant Homestead: Tall white
pines and a smidgen of O.G.,
3. Mohawk Trail State Forest: tall
white ash trees of Ash and
Indian Flats, the ENTS Grove, other tall pines, and abundant O.G.,
4. Sycamores of Simsbury, CT
including the Pinchot sycamore,
5. If time permits, a groovy trip
to New York's Catskill country.
Hey, we're just a bunch of wild and crazy guys
and gals who like big
trees.
Bob
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