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cm9tIGNsb3NlIHRvIHRoZSBiYXNl That is, still, an amazingly, VERY old tree!! So sad it was cut down, but,... is there any way, the wood might be made available to artists, or has it already been salvaged? Thank you, so much, Heather! Gayle MacLean Dartmouth ---- Heather Drope <heather.drope@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Today I went out and Dr.David Patriquin and I measured the red oak tree.. > Everyone was right, it wasn't 400 years old.. Looks are decieving in trees as > well as people. > > Subject: Tree > > The stump, approx 2 feet high had a large area of decomposing heartwood. > The trunk had been sawed into pieces. We counted the rings and > measured the circumference of 2 of the largest pieces which likely > came from close to the base. For one, 213 rings were counted to the > center (no decomposing heartwood), for the other 216 rings to a core > of decomposing heartwood approx 5.5 cm diameter (i.e. the age was > 216+). The diameters estimated as circumference/pi were 1,23 and 1.20 > meters. The former measurement included a bit of a branch; the better > estimate is 216+years/1.20 m diameter. > > > > > > ------- End of forwarded message ------- > Heather Drope > Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society > www.nswildflora.ca > 902-440-5032 > > We do not see nature with our eyes, > but with our understandings and our hearts. > W. Hazlett
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