A live oak at Audubon Park in New Orleans.
Photo by Michael
Davie.
- Loblolly Pine - Formerly the largest recorded, the tree tallied
10,971 board feet (International 1/4") scale, which is probably
in the 7,000 board foot (Doyle scale) range. There is a picture of
this pine in a publication by H.H. Chapman of Yale University with a
lumberman and early southern forestry pioneer Henry Hardtner of the
Urania Lumber Company (Louisiana). The loblolly was 54" DBH
(14.1' CBH) and very low in taper, being 40 inches in diameter at a
height of 96 feet. Total height of this tree was 165 feet.
- Bayou Boeuf Cypress, in the Evangeline District of
Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana: a 37-acre cypress-tupelo
forest along the bayou in the floodplain of the Red River. http://www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/kisatchie/
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May 2007