Giant trees in MN   lef
  Oct 13, 2003 19:06 PDT 

ENTS:

Speaking of cottonwood records, Paul Jost and I measured some trees up to
23.1' cbh in the Minnesota River Valley this weekend.

Details and pictures to follow when Paul gets home later this week.

Lee
RE: Giant trees in MN   Robert Leverett
  Oct 14, 2003 05:49 PDT 

Lee:

Holy Smokes! You've been describing the stout cottonwoods of the upper
Mid-west, but 23 feet goes beyond what I was imagining. Can't wait for
the pictures! Cottonwoods kick fanny!

Hey, can we start a significant tree gallery of the upper Mid-west on
the ENTS website? I'm bustin at the seams to see side by side images of
the great white pines, red pines, cottonwoods, bur oaks, black ashes,
basswoods, etc.?

Bob
RE: Giant trees in MN   Lee E. Frelich
  Oct 14, 2003 11:41 PDT 

Bob:

Paul has electronic pictures of most of the big trees in the Upper
Midwest. When he gets home, we'll see if he wants to make such a picture
gallery.

I never expected a 23 footer in MN, but this particular tree is semi-forest
grown at the edge of the woods and has some low branches, which helps it
attain such huge girth. Another nearby completely forest grown tree of
about 20' cbh was even more impressive in my view, with its huge column and
greater height. Its a younger tree with fast growth and no doubt will also
attain 23 feet in a few years.

Lee
Re: Giant trees in MN   Paul Jost
  Oct 14, 2003 18:10 PDT 

I'll resize the pictures and provide links to them in the next couple of
days...

Paul Jost