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Hi All
This afternoon I took a walk on a flood plain that has
a nice stand of red maples plus a few other hardwoods.
One of the maples had toppled over. It was a clump
actually, 3 trees in one. Two were in the 40 - 50 cm
breast diameter range - if they were standing. The
other somewhat smaller. A portion of the roots were
still attached and the trees were leafing our as
normal.
The root ball was only about 40 - 50 cms in depth but
the part sticking up was prehaps 4 meters in radius.
The roots on the bottom were all small indicating they
had not gone far into the soil.
There was no sign of human interaction anywhere near
and no sign of CFIA folks. So I assumed it was a
natural event.
The ammasing part for me was how shallow the roots.
The mass of soil out around the tree must have kept it
upright over all those years.
Have a nice summer
Paul
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