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ENTS:
This is a good example of a red oak wolf tree.? The person in the
photo is about 6' tall.? The tree is on private property but the
adjoining property is part of Coopers Rock State Forest and the WVU
Research Forest and just a couple miles south of the WV/PA state
line near White House, PA.
Russ
Russ Richardson wrote (August3, 2009)
Joe:
The tree wasn't hollow. There was a small spot on the lower trunk
that was dead, possibly from an old fire scar but the tree was
sound.
The only old trees in the area that were hollow were some old
yellow poplar and chestnut oak that appeared to be old growth
remnants.? Most of the old culls were?running between 30 and 40"
DBH.??On the same property I encountered an American?chestnut stump
from the last time the area was cut in the 1930s.? The chestnut
stump was located beneath a rock overhang and most of the stump had
never been wet and looked like it was just a couple years old....all
of the stump exposed to weather was missing almost as though it was
dipped in acid....any how, making a long story short...the chestnut
tree had 232 growth rings when it was cut around 1930.
The property is within five miles of where Arlyn Perkey did all
of his crop tree research.
The photo's attached are of a red oak here at Crummies Creek.
The red oak tree was 26.9 inches in diameter prior to the
beginning of the 2009 growing season and the tree has grown 5.6
inches in diameter in the past 11 growing seasons.? In the photo
where you can see the length of the stem, the first branch in the
red oak is at about 70 feet.
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Zorzin <jjzor ...@verizon.net>
To: entstrees@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sat, Aug 1, 2009 10:35 am
Subject: [ENTS] Re: big red oak
Russ, looks like a hollow at the left?
?
The one thing old growth forests have in abundance?is hollows
in trees. I wonder if any wildlife researchers have ever focused
on this variable? Such as: the total amount of space in
tree?hollows on a per acre basis in an old growth forest? And
how might that correlate with abundance of which wildlife
species? Then compare different old growth forests.
?
When you tree measuring experts measure trees, do you ever
take note of hollows?
?
?
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: forestr...@aol.com
To: entstrees@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:16 AM
Subject: [ENTS] big red oak
ENTS:
This is a good example of a red oak wolf tree.? The person in
the photo is about 6' tall.? The tree is on private property but
the adjoining property is part of Coopers Rock State Forest and
the WVU Research Forest and just a couple miles south of the
WV/PA state line near White House, PA.
Russ
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