| River
Road: Cook
Forest tall tree tally update |
Dale
J. Luthringer |
| Aug
03, 2004 17:25 PDT |
Bob,
Ed, Colby, Will,
I finally got a couple of hours to measure some trees along
River Road
today. It's been almost 2 months since I've had a chance to
spend any
real time measuring trees. There have been a few trees along the
Clarion River that I've been wanting to measure lately, but just
haven't
had a chance to get around to it until today.
Here's the short tally:
Species CBH Height Comments
Am. basswood 6.9 113 new
park record
Hawthorne 4.6 34.1 largest
I've seen to
date, open grown along river
Shagbark hickory 4.1 107.1 new
park record
Slippery elm 3.3 66
Tuliptree 8.3 120.9
yellow buckeye 2.2 33.3 first
confirmed in the
park (37species to date)
yellow buckeye 2.1 40.5 there's
another buckeye
sp. off Mohawk trail at 7.1ft CBH x 66.7ft high that's needs
Its ID verified
Yellow buckeye 6.9 84.5 old
house/farm
foundation tree, probably parent of above buckeye
Height Class # Species
<100
16
100
7
110
4
120 6
130 1
140 2
180
1
Dale
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| RE:
Cook Forest update |
Dale
J. Luthringer |
| Aug
04, 2004 17:53 PDT |
Ed,
I should say 37 species that various ENTS have measured in the
park... I
guess Vitus sp. doesn't count as a tree. The rest are all trees
or
shrubs (rhodes & laurel).
I still have to measure a couple of Ironwoods downriver from the
Park
Office that have a little girth & height to them. There's
also some
staghorn sumac that should be measured, and maybe a tiny black
willow or
silky dogwood if I want to get picky. Oh yeh, maybe a speckled
alder
down along the river, but then I'd have to go swimming to get
those.
Some say the Clarion used to be called 'Alder River'. Certain
sections
of the bank are just loaded with them to a point that it's a
continuous
mat of alder.
I've attached my current species list of Cook
Forest's "big & tall" trees.
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