Hello ENTS,

On Tuesday my brother and I made a road trip up to Potter County to relocate
and measure a white pine I saw twelve years ago while hunting at a friends
cabin.  It was a four hour drive just to get to the cabin so I did not take
many measurements.  There was also about a foot to a foot and a half of snow
on the ground.  I did a weeks worth of exercise in four hours.

Hemlocks and Beech

Hemlocks

Hemlocks

As we searched for the white pine I saw many hemlocks in the 9' cbh range
and the average height between 100' and 115'.  I saw a few others even
larger, 12 x 100's maybe?  The area was also loaded with stripped maples.
Several we saw had a 24"+ cbh.  I wish I would've taken the time to measure
them.  There were lots of sweet birch and one that stood above the rest,
literally.  I did take the time to measure and photograph this beauty,
8'11"x 94.3'.

Sweet Birch

Smaller White Pine

The last tree we measured was an old white pine with lots of character and
thick, rough bark.  It has a large side branch that goes vertical for about
100'.  It measures 15' x 120.3' x 72'.  I'm not so sure this is the pine I
had in mind.  The pine I remember had no branches for the first thirty or
forty feet which then split into four or five leaders that were the size of
the side branch of the pine we measured, but that was twelve years ago.
Either way it's a large old white pine for Pa.  That's me in the last white
pine photo.

I will be returning to measure the stripped maples and continue the search
for the white pine.

George