Cook Forest Hardwood Only Rucker Index   Dale J. Luthringer
  Dec 15, 2004 15:53 PST 

Will,

Here is Cook Forest's "hardwood only" Rucker Index:

Species

CBH

Height

Est. Age

black cherry

11.4

140

175+

tuliptree

8.2

136.6

150

white ash

7.6

128.3

150

white oak

10.7

126.8

225

red maple

9

126

200

Am. beech

7.9

124.4

100

cucumbertree

7.5

123.1

200

N. red oak

9.5

122.9

150+

sugar maple

8.8

116.2

150

chestnut oak

5.4

111.1

150+

 Cook Forest Hardwoods Only Rucker Index = 125.54

All the hardwoods noted above are all over 150 years in age, except
maybe the Am. beech you measured (~100?). I just haven't been able to
find younger representatives that will surpass the height of these older
ones... then again, maybe I need to retrain my eye for a different scale
again.

Without the conifers in Cook's RI, it would probably fall to 3rd in the
state... Fairmont, Wintergreen, Cook Forest.

Dale