Riceville NC Trees

Riceville, NC Trees

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TOPIC: Riceville NC Trees
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Date: Mon, Mar 24 2008 7:34 pm
From: James Parton

ENTS,

Today while helping my soon-to-be wife Joy clean up her old home which
she is moving out of, we took a break and rode up to the gate into
Shope Creek Forest above Riceville where she let me out . I walked
about half a mile into the forest to get a cbh measurement on a large
White Oak that I found in there last fall. It turned out to be a
respectable 13' 1" in girth. That is decent for a tree that is growing
in a forest environment and not out in the open. It is probably of
considerable age. On returning to her old home I spied a large
Sycamore in a field across from the Riceville Fire Department. I had
to straddle an electric fence to get to it but luckily I succeeded
without getting zinged. It had a girth of 15' 4 1/2". That is so far
the largest girthed sycamore I have found. American Sycamore is common
here but it seems that really big ones are hard to come by.

The oak measured today is in the Shope Creek post from last fall.

http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/north_carolina/ymca/shope_creek/shope_creek.htm

James Parton

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