For those ENTS wanting to have a meal together Larry Tucei has offered to make a shrimp Creole dish Friday and Stuart Greeter (NPS) has offered to bring burgers for a grill out Saturday.
Other than that, bring your own breakfast and packable lunches or dinner if needed.
> For those ENTS wanting to have a meal together Larry Tucei has offered to
> make a shrimp Creole dish Friday and Stuart Greeter (NPS) has offered to
> bring burgers for a grill out Saturday.
> Other than that, bring your own breakfast and packable lunches or dinner if
> needed.
Sounds delicious. I've been trying to see if I can work out going, but
I can't. I'll be going in a few weeks, at least. Good luck to
everyone, happy hunting and measuring!
On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, "Will Blozan" <tree_hun...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> For those ENTS wanting to have a meal together Larry Tucei has offered to
> make a shrimp Creole dish Friday and Stuart Greeter (NPS) has offered to
> bring burgers for a grill out Saturday.
> Other than that, bring your own breakfast and packable lunches or dinner if
> needed.
-----Original Message-----
From: entstrees@googlegroups.com [mailto:entstrees@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Davie
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:45 PM
To: ENTSTrees
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Congaree dinner plans
Sounds delicious. I've been trying to see if I can work out going, but
I can't. I'll be going in a few weeks, at least. Good luck to
everyone, happy hunting and measuring!
On Feb 19, 3:42 pm, "Will Blozan" <tree_hun...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> For those ENTS wanting to have a meal together Larry Tucei has offered to
> make a shrimp Creole dish Friday and Stuart Greeter (NPS) has offered to
> bring burgers for a grill out Saturday.
> Other than that, bring your own breakfast and packable lunches or dinner
if
> needed.
For those of you who were unable to make the Congaree trip this time, here's a brief update:? We are having a great time!? Weather on Friday was cool but sunny, and after an initial glitch with getting permitted to climb the big loblolly pine, Will Blozan and company spent most of the afternoon in the canopy.? Those of us bound to the ground spent a lot of time watching the climbers, and then groups of us explored parts of the trails for big trees.? Marcas Houtchings acted as our guide, and just about ran us ragged on one small trail loop going from big tree to big tree.? Larry Tucei was in measurement overload, and just couldn't believe all the big trees we were passing up!? I've attached a picture of Larry standing next to a giant overcup oak that we did linger long enough to measure...(I forget the details--about 130 ft tall and 17+ ft CBH, if I remember right...).
Today also promises a cool start but a sunny and warming day, and many more trees will be measured today!
Don
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Don C. Bragg, Ph.D. Research Forester USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station DonCBr...@netscape.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and not necessarily those of the Southern Research Station, the Forest Service, or the USDA.
I wish I could have stayed in the dorm. Then I could have been on the
hike today. Oh, well. The hike on Saturday was amazing. I've never
seen a forest like the one in Congaree NP. Everywhere we looked we
found giant trees. I took about 300 photographs which I'll be mucking
about with for days.
If you any of you want to read my unfolding impressions of Congaree,
you can take a look at my blog, which will be taken up with the
Saturday hike for the next few days:
> For those of you who were unable to make the Congaree trip this time, here's a brief update:? We are having a great time!? Weather on Friday was cool but sunny, and after an initial glitch with getting permitted to climb the big loblolly pine, Will Blozan and company spent most of the afternoon in the canopy.? Those of us bound to the ground spent a lot of time watching the climbers, and then groups of us explored parts of the trails for big trees.? Marcas Houtchings acted as our guide, and just about ran us ragged on one small trail loop going from big tree to big tree.? Larry Tucei was in measurement overload, and just couldn't believe all the big trees we were passing up!? I've attached a picture of Larry standing next to a giant overcup oak that we did linger long enough to measure...(I forget the details--about 130 ft tall and 17+ ft CBH, if I remember right...).
> Today also promises a cool start but a sunny and warming day, and many more trees will be measured today!
> Don
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don C. Bragg, Ph.D.
> Research Forester
> USDA Forest Service
> Southern Research Station
> DonCBr...@netscape.net
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and not necessarily those of the Southern Research Station, the Forest Service, or the USDA.
I know that this subject has been brought up many times before. I kept telling myself that I needed to go and photo the trees along Route 66 between Pacific and Eureka Missouri. The power lines run along between the highway and the railway tracks (Union Pacific ?) and are sycamores. The photo is in a 2 mile stretch where they have cropped the trees back to the brink of death and from the blank areas, to death. There are more along I-44 as it passes through Eureka. Thank goodness they aren't as bad.
To those of you that joined us on the fabulous weekend we had measuring the big timber of the Congaree, I am making a plea for you to send me your best pictures and stories, as well as measurements, to incorporate them in the next Bulletin of the ENTS.? I know that others took as many or more pictures than I did, and I'd love to share them with the rest of the group.? I can't guarantee that I would end up using any or all of the ones that I'm sent, but you keep the copyright of your pictures (the Bulletin is just permitted to publish them in this format).? With any pictures or trip reports, please be as detailed as possible with names, places, and tree species, and include photographer credits (if not yourself).
Thanks!
Don
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don C. Bragg, Ph.D.
Research Forester
USDA Forest Service
Southern Research Station
DonCBr...@netscape.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and not necessarily those of the Southern Research Station, the Forest Service, or the USDA.
-----Original Message-----
From: doncbr...@netscape.net
To: entstrees@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 5:34 am
Subject: [ENTS] A Congaree tease
ENTS--
For those of you who were unable to make the Congaree trip this time, here's a brief update:? We are having a great time!? Weather on Friday was cool but sunny, and after an initial glitch with getting permitted to climb the big loblolly pine, Will Blozan and company spent most of the afternoon in the canopy.? Those of us bound to the ground spent a lot of time watching the climbers, and then groups of us explored parts of the trails for big trees.? Marcas Houtchings acted as our guide, and just about ran us ragged on one small trail loop going from big tree to big tree.? Larry Tucei was in measurement overload, and just couldn't believe all the big trees we were passing up!? I've attached a picture of Larry standing next to a giant overcup oak that we did linger long enough to measure...(I forget the details--about 130 ft tall and 17+ ft CBH, if I remember right...).
Today also promises a cool start but a sunny and warming day, and many more trees will be measured today!
Don
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Don C. Bragg, Ph.D.
Research Forester
USDA Forest Service
Southern Research Station
DonCBr...@netscape.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and not necessarily those of the Southern Research Station, the Forest Service, or the USDA.
?
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That was one awesome trip! It may take me several days to edit, send
and post some pictures, measurements and reports on Congaree. But
first off I must really thank our hosts at Congaree. They where
GREAT!!! Larry, BVP and Will have the majority of the measurements we
did at Congaree plus a big bonus. A huge Pecan we measured a few miles
outside the park.
> To those of you that joined us on the fabulous weekend we had measuring the big timber of the Congaree, I am making a plea for you to send me your best pictures and stories, as well as measurements, to incorporate them in the next Bulletin of the ENTS.? I know that others took as many or more pictures than I did, and I'd love to share them with the rest of the group.? I can't guarantee that I would end up using any or all of the ones that I'm sent, but you keep the copyright of your pictures (the Bulletin is just permitted to publish them in this format).? With any pictures or trip reports, please be as detailed as possible with names, places, and tree species, and include photographer credits (if not yourself).
> Thanks!
> Don
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don C. Bragg, Ph.D.
> Research Forester
> USDA Forest Service
> Southern Research Station
> DonCBr...@netscape.net
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and not necessarily those of the Southern Research Station, the Forest Service, or the USDA.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: doncbr...@netscape.net
> To: entstrees@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 5:34 am
> Subject: [ENTS] A Congaree tease
> ENTS--
> For those of you who were unable to make the Congaree trip this time, here's a brief update:? We are having a great time!? Weather on Friday was cool but sunny, and after an initial glitch with getting permitted to climb the big loblolly pine, Will Blozan and company spent most of the afternoon in the canopy.? Those of us bound to the ground spent a lot of time watching the climbers, and then groups of us explored parts of the trails for big trees.? Marcas Houtchings acted as our guide, and just about ran us ragged on one small trail loop going from big tree to big tree.? Larry Tucei was in measurement overload, and just couldn't believe all the big trees we were passing up!? I've attached a picture of Larry standing next to a giant overcup oak that we did linger long enough to measure...(I forget the details--about 130 ft tall and 17+ ft CBH, if I remember right...).
> Today also promises a cool start but a sunny and warming day, and many more trees will be measured today!
> Don
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don C. Bragg, Ph.D.
> Research Forester
> USDA Forest Service
> Southern Research Station
> DonCBr...@netscape.net
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The opinions expressed in this message are my own, and not necessarily those of the Southern Research Station, the Forest Service, or the USDA.
> ?
> A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!
