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ENTS,
As part of my expanding documentation blitz of trees and forest
sites, I went to Look Park today. It is only about a mile distant
from the house. Look Park is an urban park that has some handsome
trees. There is a white pine stand in the park that I have watched
for several years. It is one of the white pine stands that show real
possibilities within the Connecticut River Valley region. In time,
several of the pines may reach to the 140-foot bar, something that
only one tree in the entire Connecticut River Valley has touched so
far - at least that I have confirmed so far. That lone tree is a
white pine on the Mount Tom State Reservation. I plan to remeasure
it tomorrow. I expect it will be around 142 feet. Oh yes, by the end
of this growing season, a tulip tree in Robinson SP may also touch
the hallowed bar and perhaps a pine in Easthampton, growing in the
vicinity of the state's tallest measured American sycamore. That is
a tree I also need to remeasure.
Several of the Look Park pines are now above 130 feet in height. I
measured 4 of them today with the Forestry 550 (135.5, 133,5, 132.5,
130.5). The range of heights in the small grove is from 120 to 135.5
feet. Girths are virtually impossible to get because of the dense
rhododendron surrounding the pines. I am reluctant to thrash around
in the park's rhododendron. However, from what I've measured in the
past, girths range from 6.5 to about 9.0 feet.
The attached images show two areas of the pine stand. The first two
images focus on what I call the Totem Pines. Two of the 130s are in
the far grove behind the totem pole that can be seen at a distance
in the first image. The second image shows the totem pole up close
and personal. A cluster of 120-foot pines is to the left.
The third image shows the 135.5-footer submerged in the
rhododendron and other shrubbery. The last image shows the
135.5-footer in the center of the photo.
The white pine is the glory of all New England. Without it, we'd
be condemned to a region of forests that suffer by comparison and
the farther north you go in New England, the rattier the trees
become, except for the great whites.
Bob
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