Finally, here are the pictures to go with this post. See text below the links.
Here's the 12' CBH Oak: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01061.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01065.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01402.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01403.jpg Here's the 10' 3" Sweetgum, the largest I've seen anywhere: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC00607.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC00609.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC00612.jpg Here's the 5' 11 1/2" Bald Cypress, the only one there: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01127.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01128.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01129.jpg Here's the 9' 6" Hemlock, the only one there: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01104.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01107.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01108.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01117.jpg On Feb 7, 8:27 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > Today I took a short little trip to measure the Weymouth Oak, as I call it. > After coming up with my idea the other day, I decided to try it. I took a big > heavy bolt and tied it to the end of my tape with a wire tie, and threw the > end of the tape around the tree while standing on the edge of the high river > bank. I then picked up the end of the tape and worked the tape up so that all > of it was the right height, and then measured. I found the CBH to be 12', > just about exactly. > > Weymouth, or Weymouth Furnace, was a bog iron furnace and village, which was > in operation from about 1800 or 1801, up into the 1840s or so. After the > furnace shut down two paper mills were built on the property. An asphalt road > goes through the property today, going over one of the original village > streets. About one or two dozen twentieth-century houses exist today, along > with the 1805 (or 1807) church. Other than that it's all preserved land in > one way or another- part county park, part state wildlife management area, > and part NJ Natural Lands Trust preserve. The ruins of both paper mills are > in a tiny county park where you can have a picnic. On the edge of the dirt > parking area there, you can find a large Sweetgum. I measured the CBH at 10' > 3". In this picnic area/park, you can also find smaller sweetgums, > buttonwoods and other things, all of which seem to be offspring of original > trees. Ruins, cellar holes and foundations can be found in > surrounding woodlands. Across the asphalt road, in the NJ Natural Lands > Trust preserve, you can find a very interesting assortment of trees. At least > one of them dates to the bog iron era. That is the oak I measured today, > mentioned above. Other trees were planted during the paper mill period or > even during the 20th century when some people were allowed to live in the > village before it was abandoned. When you walk the path into the woods, the > Great Egg Harbor River is down the steep bank on your right. On your left > there are two rows of Norway Spruces, at about a 45 degree angle from the > path (which is an old street). There is also a small hemlock and a small > European Larch. Just past these trees on the right, on the edge of the river > bank, you find the old oak. This oak once had a twin, just several yards > away. That tree died and came down many years ago, and lies in pieces on the > ground. Common woodland trees in this woodland include Pitch Pine, > Eastern Red Cedar, Tuliptree, Buttonwood, White and other oaks, and American > Holly. The Buttonwood and Tuliptrees are likely offspring of former village > trees which no longer stand. Further along the path there is an oak that's > quite big but not as big as the one on the river bank. This one I measured at > CBH 8' 6". Keep walking and you start to find more unusual trees. There are > two old maples, one on each side of you, along with a single bald cypress > tree, a single hemlock tree, and 4 or 5 European Larches, one of them dead. > In this area down the embankment to your right you find a cedar swamp between > you and the river, so the river isn't visible from this point. The Hemlock > here is the one I would like measured (height), and checked for HWA if > possible. Its offspring below it don't seem to have it, which is encouraging. > I had measured the CBH of this hemlock and bald cypress on an earlier visit, > maybe last week. The hemlock is 9' 6", but had to be > measured lower than usual, to get below a second vertical leader that starts > pretty low. The bald cypress is 5' 11 1/2", and a nearby sweetgum is 7' 9 > 1/2". > > I will send pictures later, or maybe I'll set up a Flikr or photobucket > account so that people can click links instead of view attachments. I have an > unlimited Webshots account, but Webshots is slow, and I think they don't take > kindly to linking to individual photos. > > Barry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
