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TOPIC: Pay Dirt
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/e0adcdc2795e5738?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Aug 27 2008 11:00 am
From: dbhguru@comcast.net


ENTS,

It looks like I'm going to be able to hook up with county and extension foresters in New Hampshire to scour the Granite State for big white pines. My first hookup was with Sam Stoddard from Lancaster. My second foray will be with Steve Roberge from UNH. He also has other contacts as does Sam.
These are really nice fellows and sound genuinely interested in pursuing the big pine search at a more refined level than champion tree points. I'll be visiting Pisgah State Park on Sept 12th to see remnant old growth and pines that survived the 1938 hurricane. The Park covers 13,000 acres and has a lot of rugged terrain that supposedly was bypassed by lumbermen. I'm excited about the possibilities.
Harvard Forest has a 25-acre in-holding that was covered in huge white pines that blew down in that damned 1938 Hurricane. I've seen pictures of the pines on the ground and quite a few appeared to between 40 and 48 inches in diameter. They were the real deal. But all of Pisgah didn't blow down. The southern exposures took the brunt of the winds, but north-facing slopes and ravines were spared the worst of the winds and plenty of forest survived. That's what we're going to look at.

Bob