| California
Climbing |
abi-@u.washington.edu |
| Nov
16, 2005 08:03 PST |
Will,
Things have been extremely busy lately - due to endangered
species, we have to get all of our climbing in between Sept 15th
and March. We have been climbing almost continuously and have
made some great progress. We have branch-mapped 15 Douglas firs
and 15 redwoods. For Dougs, this includes the 96.4 m Hunewell
Honey and 93.1 m Flagpole tree (talk about exposure!!). For
redwoods, this includes five tree over 108 m tall. The crowning
achievement was obtaining a complete branch map for the
Stratosphere Giant !! At 112.87 m, this is the tallest known
tree, and is also amazingly big and old. The tree has about
25,000 cubic feet and is probably about 2,500 years old.
AMAZING! It took four people three full days to accomplish this.
We finished yesterday and think this to be about the finest
single-tree data set we have ever collected!
Cheers,
- BVP |
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