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TOPIC: Eucaypt redemption
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/30ab28b7b83fafdb?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 4:57 pm
From: BVP

Greetings,

After living for several years with the knowledge that it had the
FIFTH highest leaf (for a species) in the world, Eucalyptus has com
back with a vengance!

Check out the new discovery:

http://www.forestrytas.com.au/news/2008/10/welcome-to-the-centurion

It has LEAPED past Pseudotsuga, Picea, and Sequoiadendron to become
the second tallest tree species!

This is fitting, as it historically (probably) was 2nd or 3rd.

My friends Brett Mifsud and Tom Greenwood will be climbing and
verifying the height on Thursday.

BTW - the tree was discovered by LIDAR!

Cheers,
- BVP

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TOPIC: Eucaypt redemption
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Oct 14 2008 4:00 am
From: dbhguru@comcast.net


Bob,

Thanks for keeping us up on the tall tree wars. Eucalyptus is one heck of a species. I noticed in the write-up the ground method for measuring the tree heights was listed as the sine method. Nice to know that our friends down under have caught on quickly and are doing it right.

Bob

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Oct 14 2008 4:02 am
From: "Will Blozan"

Bob,

I think they were some of the first tree hunters to use the sine method.
Man, what a tree!

Will F. Blozan

President, Eastern Native Tree Society
President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc.

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Tues, Oct 14 2008 4:23 am
From: Marcboston

So funny your post is about Eucalyptus. I just finished the chapter
about Eucalyptus in the book "The Wild Trees". Lot so leaches in
those forests! For anyone that has not read the book I recommend
it.

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TOPIC: Eucaypt redemption
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 22 2008 10:24 pm
From: BVP


Greetings,

The tree ended up being 99.6 m tall - almost exactly the same height
as the tallest Doug fir. The Doug fir, however, has its top 30 feet
dead. The tallest leaf known for a Doug fir is just under 97 m - yet
this Eucalypt has several branches, tops, whatever, above 99 m!
Amazing.

Cheers,
- BVP

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TOPIC: Eucaypt redemption
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== 1 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 1:00 am
From: James Parton


BVP,

I would love to see one of those Eucalypts! Have you ever been to
Australia? I have wanted to go there since I was a kid.

JP

== 3 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 5:38 am
From: "Will Blozan"


BVP,

Awesome! I am a bit surprised that the lasered height was so more than the
tape drop.

Will F. Blozan
President, Eastern Native Tree Society
President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc.

== 4 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 9:52 am
From: DON BERTOLETTE


Gary Beluzo-
While I took your ribbing good-naturedly a couple of months ago, it was interesting to see that LIDAR was used successfully to identify tree heights...my proposal months ago to utilize LIDAR as a filter to reduce the number of trees to be measured, and as a means of studying crown height relationships would seem to merit more than a 'balloon man' graphic...

When and if there is interest in use of LIDAR for Congaree crowns, I'd be happy to discuss grants that might support such a mission...
-DonRB

== 5 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 10:04 am
From: "Bruce Allen"



There already is a lidar for the Congaree. The park service has a
copy. I had to sign away my first child to get a copy and promise not
to use it for anything useful. I am not sure it is sensitive enough
to pick up fine twigs though.

Bruce

== 6 of 6 ==
Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 6:16 pm
From: DON BERTOLETTE


Bruce-
How would it work for RELATIVE crown heights with leaf on?
-DonRB