MTSF, April 29, 2007   Robert Leverett   Apr 30, 2007 04:56 PDT  ENTS, SATURDAY:     Saturday AM, I spent in MTSF roaming in a later property acquisition which I have held out little hope of finding noteworthy trees. It was an unrewarding venture. The best tree I measured was a bigtooth aspen (105.6, 7.0). They get only a little larger than this in the Berkshires except when open grown. A slender hemlock in a packed grove of comparably skinny hemlocks measured (114.5, 6.6). A few white ash trees in the area will equal the hemlock for height. But other hardwoods won’t. Nothing I saw in the new area merits getting excited about.     The scattering of white pines I measured in both an adjacent area that I have previously explored plus the new area included by far the largest and tallest trees for the day. The following list consists only of white pines. Hgt      Girth 144.7   9.6 (previously measured) 138.6   8.2 135.5 10.3 132.6 9.5 132.7 9.5 128.3 7.8 98.8 11.2      The last listed pine has a broken top and lots of woodpecker holes. So, naturally enough, it has been officially named the Woody Woodpecker Pine. Beyond the bigtooth aspen and the pines, a black cherry in the old area that I had previously failed to measure reaches 99.4 feet (okay) and 8.1 feet in girth – quite respectable. I worked hard to break 100 feet on the cherry’s height, but couldn’t. That dog simply don’t hunt. Bob Robert T. Leverett Cofounder, Eastern Native Tree Society   Home