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Millpond State Park in NC |
Neil
Pederson |
| Aug
06, 2007 08:45 PDT |
hi
Gary,
I visited there once a few yrs ago. The manager suspected the
American
beech were old-growth. I'm kind of skeptical about that. Even
though the
trees are fairly good size, the long growing season and what
should be
somewhat decent soils should make it easy to grow large beech in
short
order. It might be hard to document how old they are as beech
tend to
hollow. It would be great to find out.
A student from UNC Greensboro (Jason Ortegren
http://www.uncg.edu/geo/Lab_Fac/Lab_Fac.htm
) might be coring the
baldcypress sometime soon. Hopefully there will be some ages
from him in the
future.
It is a beautiful park with a wonderful stand of American beech
in the
Coastal Plain.
hope this helps,
neil
On 8/3/07, gary-@bellsouth.net
wrote:
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