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
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