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TOPIC: VA Hospital Trees_Oteen NC
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/45e4e5c3dc5e31ba?hl=en
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Date: Sun, Dec 9 2007 7:12 pm
From: James Parton

ENTS,

While walking a small trail around the VA Hospital earlier in the year
I noticed a number of sizeable trees on the place. The Hospital was
built there back around 1917 so the trees have had time to reach a
fair size. I found a sizeable recently cut White Pine stump in which I
counted the rings 3 different times. I came up with numbers between 88
& 94 rings which corresponds well with the age of the hospital.

Here are the cbh @ 4.5ft measurements of the trees that I took while
revisiting the site yesterday ( 12/8/07 ).

Norway Spruce: 6' 10 1/4"

Shortleaf Pine: 5' 10 3/4"

White Oak: 15' 11 3/4"

White Oak: 13' 9.0"

White Oak: 12' 6.0"

Shortleaf Pine: 5' 11.0"

American Beech: 11' 0"

White Oak: 12' 9.0"

American Holly: 7' 3 1/4" ( Fused trunked tree )

Norway Spruce: 7' 5 1/2"

Eastern Hemlock: 6' 11 1/4" ( Tree in poor shape )

Norway Spruce: 11' 7.0"

White Oak: 8' 8 1/2"

Red Oak: 9' 9.0"

White Pine 9' 5 1/2"


I uploaded a picture of the largest White Oak to the file page.

James Parton