Nature Collections

Nature Collections

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TOPIC: Anybody out there collect things tree or nature related?
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/ab4fb8f919a03ec0?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 6 2008 7:20 pm
From: Gary Smith

As for myself, a conifer freak, I like to have a seed cone from the
various species of conifers I've seen in person.

My humongous Sugar pine cone from Yosemite sits on a fireplace mantle
next to a bristlecone pine cone and also one from the General Grant
sequoia. When I make it out West again, I would love to get a Coulter
pine cone, which is really suppose to be something else, along with a
Coastal redwood cone, Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, Western red cedar,
etc, etc.

Nuts, I know. lol

Gary

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 6 2008 8:47 pm
From: James Parton

Gary,

Yes, I'm nuts too! My computer desk and endtable are full of burrs,
acorns, cones, nuts, magnolia pods, bark, and leaves. Included in this
are American Chestnut burrs from Pisgah and Cataloochee, Southern and
Fraser Magnolia pods. Loblolly, White Pine, Norway Spruce, China Fir,
Dawn Redwood and Eastern Hemlock cones. Tulip Poplar seeds. White pine
bark. Chestnut Oak, Red Oak and Live Oak Acorns ( Angel Oak ). I also
have a Sweetgum ball and a good-luck buckeye.

James Parton

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TOPIC: Anybody out there collect things tree or nature related?
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 6 2008 8:47 pm
From: James Parton

Gary,

Yes, I'm nuts too! My computer desk and endtable are full of burrs,
acorns, cones, nuts, magnolia pods, bark, and leaves. Included in this
are American Chestnut burrs from Pisgah and Cataloochee, Southern and
Fraser Magnolia pods. Loblolly, White Pine, Norway Spruce, China Fir,
Dawn Redwood and Eastern Hemlock cones. Tulip Poplar seeds. White pine
bark. Chestnut Oak, Red Oak and Live Oak Acorns ( Angel Oak ). I also
have a Sweetgum ball and a good-luck buckeye.

James Parton

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 3:16 am
From: Beth Koebel

Gary and James,

I have a collection of acorns along with a black
walnut and Kentucky coffee tree seed.

Beth

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 4:07 am
From: "William Morse"

my desk and book shelves are covered with miscellaneous nature
collections ranging from fossils, snail shells, and caddisfly casings,
to various antlers. I have a collection of nuts opened by different
types of rodents, a pine cone half chewed by a red squirrel that
resembles a rose, and tons of plant pressing! you are not the only one
that is nuts! Travis

== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 6:21 am
From: pabigtrees

ENTS

I too have various pine cones, antlers, skulls, feathers etc. The one
thing I seem to collect the most are galls and burls from trees.
Usually small ones that can be popped off with a pocket knife. I then
de bark them and sand them and stain them. The grain is awesome.
They usually end up looking like eggs, so I display them in old bird
nests. I recently found a nice palmated eleven point buck skull and
antlers. I found the arrow nearby that killed it too. I guess they
couldn't find it. Mine now!

Scott

== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 6:34 am
From: Larry

Scott, My friend in Wisconsin collects antler sheds also, he has a
couple of boxes full. How large was that 11 point? Larry

== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 10:34 am
From: James Parton

Larry,

I too have a rock collection that I have had for many years. It
contains fossils like petrified wood and trilobites as well as many
other types of rocks and minerals. I even have two meteorites in my
collection. One meterorite, an iron nickel specimen is on my computer
desk with all my tree stuff as well as a quartz crystal I have had
since I was in the sixth grade.

James P.

== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 10:50 am
From: Larry

James, Awesome stuff! Larry

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TOPIC: Anybody out there collect things tree or nature related?
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 3:40 pm
From: TreeFarmer

Scott,
I collect burls too but really big ones that I slice into slabs for
furniture. I saw a George Nakashima burl wood exhibit in the 70's and
started collecting burls. I figured making Burl funiture would be a
perfect retirement biz when I got old. Now 30 years later I'm still
too busy to make much furniture but someday I'll slow down and
then....
I get them from downed trees and logged over sites. A walnut burl is
rock hard and can be many years old as the white wood rots off leaving the dark
wood which rots very slowly. Looks like marble. I collect branch burls
as well as root burls.
Big downed trees with their roots in the air are a special prize as
you get to include the roots in the cut.
See http://www.dumonds.com/furniture_gallery /
forfurniture_gallery2.htm
for examples of Nakashima style furniture.

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 7 2008 3:57 pm
From: Randy Brown

I got to visit a woodworking place that made similar furniture and
they had piece that was cut lengthwise from a crotch. Somehow he
manage to perfectly bisect a walnut that had gotten wedged and then
engulfed inside the tree.

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Date: Sat, Mar 8 2008 6:41 am
From: pabigtrees

Larry

Last year I found another eleven point buck skull and antlers that was
138 points by Pope and young standards. I donated it to Tyler
Arboretum for the educational department. Literally two weeks after I
gave that one away, I found this new eleven point buck. Neat thing is
I have a shed from this one from a previous season. It may be a close
relative, but I think it is the same deer. I would guess it is fewer
points than the first one, as the tines are shorter. Real nice
palmation though. Some guy is probably sick with himself that he
couldn't find his kill. I harvested a small seven point this year and
a doe.

The big ones are in the backyards here in SE Pa. There was a fourteen
point taken near my home in the suburbs.

Scott

Michele Wilson

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== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 13 2008 11:16 am
From: "Edward Frank"

ENTS,

Collecting is a common practice among non-tree people. I don't think I know of a single geologist that does not have a rock collection from trips to see various features and outcrops.

When on a trip to Isla de Mona Puerto Rico, the sees were two high to send the normal transfer boat for the handful rangers and personnel that rotates on and off to man what is essentially a "national forest" They were likely just going to ride the weather out for a few days, when the replacement people pointed out that myself and Rob were out there doing research.So instead of waiting, the called the Coast Guard to provide a lift. They sent a black hawk helicopter for everyone. (They transfer people this way on regularly, just not commonly) It gives the Coast Guard something different to do for a change over their normal patrols. I waited outside of the the blade area and the one crewman waived for me to proceed to the helicopter, and he would bring the bags. His eyes bugged briefly when he went to pick up my duffle. - He asked if it were full of rocks. Yes it was. There are several distinct different types of employees who make up the small workforce on the island. There are a couple of police running around with guns (looking for illegal aliens - mostly from the Dominican Republic trying to sneak in to country), Raggers who check on peoples visitation and camping permits, Occasionally there is a Environmental interpretive Technician. Strangely the person who is actually in charge is a very funny guy named Jose Imenez. He works mostly as the cook when he is there. If there aren't any visitors to the western side of the island, where the main camp lies, then basically nothing productive is done for a week and a half. then there is a mad dash of activity to clean the place before the next crew arrives. Anyway. On this particular trip one of the guys was a "volunteer" who got the trip to the island and a space to stay in exchange for helping out Jose. When we arrived back on the main island,(after chasing around a smuggling boat on the trip back) He drove us to our hotel in San Juan, so we could catch our plane the next day. The next day when loading my duffle into the taxi, the driver asked if I had rocks in my bag- Yes I did. I checked the duffle at the airport, and the girl who pulled it off the check slot ask if I had rocks in my duffle bag.

Among geologist types, returning from a trip with a duffle bag of rocks is a reasonable result, it is just the rest of the world that is not ready for it, just like "Formula 410" in the recent television advertisements. As an obsessive collector of lots of stuff, I find it comforting that others collect forest materials.

Ed

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