| Tree
Namings |
Robert
Leverett |
| Jul
12, 2006 13:12 PDT |
ENTS,
Tree Namings:
On this Sunday Chief (and Doctor) Arvol
Looking Horse, the19th
Generation Keeper of the original Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
of the
Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Sioux will climb Bear Butte with his wife
Native
environmentalist Paula Horn. At the summit they will do ceremony
and
offer prayers. They will offer a prayer and blessings for the
union of
Monica and me - a tremendous honor. Arvol and Native elder, the
late
Jani Leverett, were co-workers on native causes. Arvol sang to
Jani
over the telephone from South Dakota before she passed over.
Arvol's was
the last Native voice that Jani heard from this side of the
great vail.
BTW, Arvol Looking Horse is a friend and spiritual colleage of
the Delli
Lama.
Because of this great honoring of Monica
and me, I am renaming the
Clutter Pine in MTSF as the Paula Horn Tree. The Clutter Pine is
a
beautify and stands next to Arvol's tree. As with other Mohawk
Pines,
the tree will retain both names.
A short distance away from the
Calibration Tree (the Junaluska
Pine), grows the Mirror Tree. Will and I visited it on Friday
and we
re-measured it (surprise, surprise, surprise). The Mirror Tree
is
partially buried by road fill. I've only partially excavated it,
but
Will took sightings on the slope and calculated the depth of its
base.
Allowing for that, this superb pine is slightly over 156 feet
tall and
11.5 feet in circumference at calculatede breast height. This
was the
tree that Will was going to climb, but the Junaluska Pine
provides
better visibility for observers.
In appreciation of Will's many
accomplishments and his battle to
save what's left of the Great Smoky Mountains hemlocks, hence
forth, the
Mirror Tree will also be named the Will Blozan Pine. That makes
two
trees for Will. His other is the first 150-footer we confirmed
in the
ENTS grove of the Encampment Pines. He was the one to confirm it
as a
150-footer. So the Mirror Tree-Will Blozan Pine becomes the
tallest of
the pines immediately adjacent to the colonial Mohawk Trail.
Bob
Robert T. Leverett
Cofounder, Eastern Native Tree Society
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