Native Tree Society BBS

http://timberturner.blogspot.ca/2014/08 ... rican.html

http://timberturner.blogspot.ca/2012/08 ... trees.html

Pictures of wood turned chestnut and natural decay results

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I have no clue where I found this on the web, last spring, but the file name is 30 Big Chestnut.jpg.

1) Get a point cloud of the forest by either LidAr or photometric based point cloud

Where do you get this?

Sounds expensive.

As a map geek, I am very impressed.

It shows how much I don't know about mapping.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140720204326.htm Sean T. Michaletz, Dongliang Cheng, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist. Convergence of terrestrial plant production across global climate gradients. Nature, 2014; DOI: 10.1038/nature13470 The size and age of plants has more of an impact...

"Last summer I seen a street of these trees in Bowie, MD on Aug 25 2009 and these trees WERE ON FREAKIN STEROIDS!!! Huge glossy lush leaves were completely unbothered by either insect or disease and each tree had at least 4 feet on new growth in either direction. To compare, I have not seen one sing...

http://gianttrees.blogspot.com/

Another site with good pics.

http://cargocollective.com/gianttrees

This is a good montage of some of the pix.

I just planted some Am chestnuts this year outside their native range so it is good to know they hang in there when it is tough going.

There are supposed to be some huge swamp white oaks in Bowie, MD.

I saw it mentioned on the web but there were no pics.

Does anyone know of them?