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Blackwater Falls, West Virginia- photo by Ed
Frank
West Virginia
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Field Trips
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WV champiion Norway spruce and European larch Turner: (moving this to a new
topic heading) I think those overall dimensions are safe from
anything at the Rothkugel and at Glady. Those places don't have
trees with very large circumferences. But the trees in these two
places are very much taller. I will be a rank novice at
measuring, but if I can get some...
more » Mar 10, 2010.
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Leadmine tree Here's that image of a
large tree from "Logging the Virgin Forests of West
Virginia". I've been in the coastal redwood and giant
sequoia groves many times. In my opinion, this tree is more
likely one of the former, Sequoia sempervirens. Huge though
it is, one of this size would have been too puny by giant
sequoia standards (as even today it is) to have been
considered photo-worthy as a tribute to logger machismo. But
it's pretty big for a coastal redwood, and the prominent
sapwood is very characteristically redwood, but very unlike
white oak. To my mind, it's certainly not an oak. White oaks
shed their bark too regularly to ever build up such a
thickness....
more » Jan 26, 2010.
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The "Leadmine" white oak
Perhaps you all know about this tree, but in case anyone
doesn't, here is what I know. In 1913 a white oak was cut down
near leadmine, WV. This
tree was far larger than any white oak I know of surviving
today. As far as I know complete measurements were not taken,
but reports have it that the tree was 13 feet in diameter 16
feet above...
more » Jan 23, 2010.
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Big Scarlet Oak Ravenswood, WV
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McCarrihan Sycamore-Marshaal County, WV
December 13 2009
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Population of rangefinders in West Virginia is
increasing. Nov. 22, 2009
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WV sycamore September 14, 2009
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Big WV sycamore August 29, 2009
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Red
oak wolf tree August 1, 2009
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Beech Trees -
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/bcda551d06bb80f7?hl=en
June09, 2009
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Exceptional Poison Ivy, WV April
3, 3009
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Pringle Sycamore, WV April
30. 2009
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Holly River State Park, WV
April 12, 2009
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North Bend State Park Rucker
Index, WV North Bend State Park
April 10, 2009
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McDonough Wildlife Preserve
Rucker Index, WV
April 6, 2009
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Exceptional Poison Ivy, WV
April 3, 2009
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West Virginia Older Growth Patches and
Individual Remnants
Jan
2009
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Shavers Mountain Old Growth Stand
Jan
2009
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