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TOPIC: Mohawk and Jake Again
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/28dbe1b7b75faf2a?hl=en 
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Date: Mon, Mar 31 2008 5:28 am
From: dbhguru@comcast.net

ENTS,

Plodding through a new covering of 4 to 6 inches of heavy, wet snow in MTSF, Monica, our friend Mark, and I visited the Twin Sentinels, Jake and Joe. You're not going to believe it, but we were forced to remeasure Jake. He demanded it. Imagine that.
Mark is a combination mathematician, linguist, and musician. In the math department, he works on fairly high level theoretical problems, so I didn't have any problem explaining our tree measuring techniques. We combined efforts and remeasured Jake using my two TruPulse hypsometers. The absolute best we could do was 168.0 feet. So, I must accept that as Jake's height. I think Jake is sensing Lee's regression limit of 172 feet and is reluctant to push too fast since he is in his middle-aged years and should have another 5 to 10 feet left of height growth.
Today, my son Rob and I will meet Ray and others at Robinson SP. We hope to lay plans for summer programming, plus visit a few tree friends. I want to include some of the Robinson trees in the study Lee is heading to compare the results of the sine versus tangent methods of tree measuring.

Bob Leverett