Native Tree Society BBS

Very nice Bob. What's the girth?

I would say at least to a small extent the Carl Sandburg Home State Historic Site ( NC ). Will Blozan has done some work with them there and the Park manager there let me measure some trees a couple of years back in restricted areas and assisted me in doing so. She seemed very interested in ENTS wor...

Very nice! It's certainly bigger than any mulberry I have ever seen.

I have not visited the tree since back on 07. I am well overdue to visit it again. I don't think I have ever seen a prettier tree. It's name certainly fits it.

I have not made it back to Linville Gorge this year. Drabbit! I hope this winter will see me do more of a return to tree measuring.

Nature always has a way of healing herself. Like all living entities, she heals.

Oh, yeah. I remember that oak!

It reminds me of an oak stump nearly 6 feet in diameter I found in Greenville SC. The tree was only about 65 years old. It is amazing on how fast some trees can grow.

The History Channel also filmed the documentary " Hatfields and McCoys " in Romania because the mountains look a lot like the Appalachians. But before I knew that I noticed the trees looked a little different. For one, no dead hemlocks and I also noticed what looked like Norway spruce growing common...

I have worked with two guys from Romania and one woman. It makes for interesting conversation. The Carpathian culture looks not much different from the Appalachian one I know. They do things more as we used to do a few decades back. Thatched barns I don't think were ever common here though wood shin...