Florida Trees

Florida Trees: Big Tree SP and De Leon SP

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TOPIC: Florida trees
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/d1c88020a93bc1c4?hl=en
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Date: Sat, May 10 2008 9:32 pm
From: JamesRobertSmith

While my wife and I were visiting various Florida first magnitude
springs, she put up with my desire to visit old trees and so we hit
the Big Tree Park to see The Senator and Lady Liberty. I'd seen them
before, beginning when the park was just a path and The Senator was
protected by some flimsy chain link leaning against the trunk. The
park is much improved over those days, although urban sprawl has crept
up and covered over with houses and subdivisions what was a long drive
through the woods when I was a child.

I also went to see Old Methusala, a 400-500 year old cypress in De
Leon Springs State Park. It's a nice tree, too, but not on a par with
the two old trees in Longwood.

I'll post some photos as soon as I can. A park ranger (at Blue Springs
State Park) did tell me of a stump along the St. Johns River of a
cypress that was logged out of there that was 31 feet in diameter.

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