Larry, That's a pretty nice Loblolly!!
JP On Feb 10, 1:03 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Larry" <[email protected]> > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 11:01 PM > Subject: [ENTS] Loblolly Pine in South Ms. > > ENTS, I measured a Big Loblolly Pine at Gulf Islands National > Seashore Park Sunday. Most of the Park was hit hard by Hurricane > Katrina. The Park is located in Ocean Springs and contains around 1200 > acres of mostly Loblolly Pine, with some Long Leaf. The Park also has > White Oak, Swamp White, Post, Red, Cherrybark Oak. Magnolia, Cedar, > Bay, Poplar, Sweetgum, Cypress, Hickory and Black Cherry. There is one > Chestnut Oak growning in poor condition, the only one I know of on the > Ms Gulf coast. > > Alot of Loblolly's blown down had around 85-90 rings with 2' Dia. I > found one big Loblolly on a small Peninsula adjacent to a Bayou that > runs throughout the Southern end of the Park. With marsh on all sides > > The CBH-9'4", Height-105' and Spread-63'. > > This is the Largest Loblolly Pine I have seen in Southern Ms., g > rowing 1/4 to 1/8 mile from the Ms. Sound. I'm guessing it to > be 130 years old. > > Gulf Islands National Seashore Park is a very special place and I have > been coming here for over 30 years. The last 3 decades have not been > kind to the Park with much Tree damage and loss from Hurricanes, > Frederic-1979, Eleana-1985, Georges-1998 and Katrina-2005. Ed, I'll > send you a couple of photos off list. Larry > > CBH-9 4 Height-105 Spread-63a.JPG > 86KViewDownload > > DSC09999a.JPG > 75KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
