Loblolly Tree Cookie, Congaree NP, SC Marcas Houtchings
  09-26-2007


Hey everyone I glad we got the new site !!  Anyways I wanted to show
you one of the Loblolly pines that fell at our service roads.   We are
going to use the tree cookies to provide more interpretation for
Congaree Nation Park.

  

So I cut 3 cookie out of the pine about 3 foot
up then took them to a man in Columbia, S.C., that dries wood in a big
kennel.  When I got it back it crack half way the cookie was still
good to use.  I hope to get them in the visitor center soon from
memory I counted 172 rings I think anyway I thought you would like to
know.

Take care  Marcas Houtchings
(Who Speaks For the Trees???...We All Do!!)

09-27-2007
Marcas,  

Awesome cookie! The Dia. of that was 3'? I see many large
pines and would like to know the results when you get them. We have
some pines in Ms. 125 years old, I'd like to compare the
Diameters.  I must get over to Congaree to see one of the South's 
last old growth forests!

Larry Tucei