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Will Blozan:  President, Eastern Native Tree Society, President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc., ISA Certified Arborist SO-4032A

The ENTS president is a certified arborist and former science technician with the GSMNP. Will has a widely recognized reputation as a tree measurer. He has been featured in articles, on TV., and on radio. Will is a co-author of "Stalking The Forest Monarchs - A Guide To Measuring Champion Trees". He has climbed and measured the tallest or among the tallest trees in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.  He was the Director of the Tsuga Search Project that documented the largest and greatest hemlocks in the Great Smokies and elsewhere as they were being decimated by the invasive insect pest, the hemlock wooly adelgid.  His exploits on behalf of the hemlocks, were recently recounted in the Dec 10, 2007 issue of The New Yorker magazine.

 


http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=07E71F84AB4DEE1F 


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The Vanishing Hemlock Documentary

 

Losing the Eastern Hemlock

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/420/index.html?media_id=2131243

No, it is NOT a beetle killing the hemlocks (at least directly) but here is a story shot two weeks ago in the Usis Hemlock. Great pan of me and my two partners in the Usis Hemlock! What a tree and what a shame it died! They did not mention that it was the TALLEST eastern hemlock ever documented…


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http://www.smokiesinformation.org/video_blog/?cat=116    Dec 2008