James, I'm a country boy too. But for some reason I love New York City. I love history, cemeteries, architecture and trees. All of those things in New York City are extra fascinating to me. What a place.
--- On Sun, 3/1/09, James Parton <[email protected]> wrote: From: James Parton <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Forest Trees To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 2:41 PM Barry, I'm a country boy. Central Park would be my only interest in Manhattan. I have never heard of Inwood Hill park. JP On Mar 1, 5:32 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > Central Park is a man-made environment but it should have some good-sized trees by now. It's quite old. Also in Manhattan, Inwood Hill Park contains an old-growth forest, untouched since the 18th century. Unfortunately I've never visited any of NYC's parks. I would love to some time. For now I just read up on them. > > --- On Sun, 3/1/09, James Parton <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: James Parton <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Forest Trees > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 9:50 AM > > Jenny, > > I would like to see some reports on New York City's Central Park. > Dispite it being entirely surrounded by the city, the park is sizeable > at more than 800 acres ( I think. ). > > Posting pictures to the discussion list is easy. Use Yahoo Mail, Gmail > or whatever you prefer and attach pictures to it and send it to > [email protected]. Make sure the e-mail address is the one > you use for ENTS or it won't post. I see you have a Gmail address. > That should work. > > James Parton > > On Mar 1, 10:03 am, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > I am so happy I found your discussion group while researching Hemlocks > > and other trees native to NYC and environs. I'm a volunteer assistant > > to the curator of the NYBG Forest and I'm working on a winter tree id > > booklet for the arborists and Forest volunteers and I would love to > > get some input/advice. Especially about some of the more difficult to > > identify trees. > > > I hope I can figure out how to post pictures. I wanted to ask if > > anyone thinks some quarter size holes in an older sugar maple > > (probably >100ya) were made by the Asian long-horned beetle or maybe > > just woodpeckers, or something else I don't know about. It's a > > beautiful and healthy tree now. And it's in such prominent location > > that if the insects were after it, they would immediately treat it. > > > Is this the right forum for me to discuss all this? I hope so. I've > > learned a lot looking through past post topics. > > > Jenny- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
