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I have added trees to the Nature N.S. Big Tree Project See the list at http://www.naturens.ca/node/12 Recently, I was riding along Brooklyn Street in the Annapolis Valley and admiring the number of large Sugar Maples, Red Maples, White Ash, and Red Oak growing on farm lawns and beside the road. There are nice trees at various places along this road from Kentville to the Kings county line. I found the best trees on the Street just west of Rt 360 north out of Berwick. So far I have added a Red Maple that is the largest yet in the list. I want to go back and measure an ash and oak. Or if someone else beats me too it fine. Just send the results to me and I will put them up on the Project page. The table is sortable so you can see how your county is doing in various species of large trees. Be sure to click on the 'thumbnail' list feature to get pictures and details on a popup window. This time of the year, many of you will be admiring the colors of the tree leaves. If you see a tree with a large diameter trunk and decent height, take a picture, measure its circumference and estimate its height (see the Big Tree Project page for help and ideas). There are big trees of many species that have not been reported yet. AND there are many counties that have not trees reported. (There are only trees listed for Annapolis(1), Colchester(1), Cumberland(2), Halifax(5), Hants(7), Kings(22) and Inverness(1) Counties). We need, for example,: Jack Pine, Poplars, other Maples, Balsam Fir, Locust trees, White Spruce, Mountain Ash and many others. Unfortunately, I had to mark two of the large trees as dead or gone. The largest tree, an American Elm, in Port Graville, was removed last year. A large Red Spruce died on the N.Mtn in Kings County. I did not remove the trees information because I think it is important to remember what we had. However, if we do not record other big trees and they go, we will never know what we had. Cheers, Larry Bogan
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