Jess,
Nice witch-hazel! That lower spruce is really impressive- I meant to measure it on the way down. It was raining and I didn't see it as I was huffing it out of there. Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. "No sympathy for apathy" _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jess Riddle Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Onion Bed red spruce, Cataloochee GRSM-NC Will, Nice spruce, and it doesn't sound like the tree I measured. The 142' tree I saw was right beside the trail, 10'1" cbh, and fairly low elevation, around 3700'. The which hazel sounds like the third tallest known. I measured a 48.2' tree near Coleman Gap in the Southern Nathahala Wilderness Area, NC. Jess On 11/1/09, Will Blozan <[email protected]> wrote: ENTS, Yesterday I was in Cataloochee up Pretty Hollow Creek Trail scouting a hemlock treatment site. The site was on Onion Bed Branch- nice old (mostly dead from HWA) hemlocks but a spruce stood out as clearly one of the taller trees up there. I did not have my diameter tape with me but the ~8 foot cbh spruce reached 147.1 feet. Jess Riddle was here in 2003 but his report doesn't mention a tree this tall. I did see the 142 foot spruce he mentioned. On the way down I measured a witch-hazel to ~22" cbh X 47.9' tall. This may be the second tallest recorded; bested only by a 53 footer on a nearby creek. I'll get the girth of both trees when I return to treat the surviving hemlocks. Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. "No sympathy for apathy" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
