RogerM
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My son and I just got back from this place
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VenasNursery
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- Michigan
Did you see @rico when you looked up?
data farm 26
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Awesome! Where at?
Stumpsprouts
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- Asheville
I’m in the middle of conducting some independent research right now on trees over 50” DBH, which according to US Forest Service classification denotes “Giant” trees. I’m doing this for clarification on storm survival as it relates to Helene, but also just general biomechanics… and there might be a cool picture book in it too down the line.
At any rate, this was one of the most surprising ones, a 52 inch black locust that’s had a pretty rough pruning history. Large sections of the bottom were sort of peeling off, and I had to make some decisions as to what I decided was included in the lower diameter. If I had included this section on the right in the photo it would have measured quite a bit more than 52”. A laughable little guy.
Been very cool to see and experience giant trees for the last little while. I’m sticking to the county that Asheville is in… so far the largest diameter is a 80” DBH Silver maple. The largest tree overall would probably be a 69” Sycamore that I climbed nine years ago, just based on height and crown width. The largest oak is 72” DBH, completely hollow with a vertical crack, in shit soil in the front lawn of a factory on a busy road. There’s a lot of humor in it
Stumpsprouts
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- Asheville
Today is a fun day. I’m going around with my friend Mike photographing giant trees for what I hope will be a book (I’m going to pace out the shooting and writing and hopefully finish in the summer). It’ll include some of the lessons I’m gleaning from studying giant trees. Mike is a deep tree nerd, the kind who knows about whiskeys made with fig leaves and other obscure folk knowledge. He photographs regularly for NYT.
This is the largest tree in the Asheville area I know about so far. It’s an 84” Silver maple in the backyard of a friend of a friend. I’m working with the Treasured Tree database, as well as an inventory from the Biltmore Estate. I was surprised to see their largest diameter tree is a 66” sycamore. In the urban environment, I have been finding many trees larger than that.
This is the largest tree in the Asheville area I know about so far. It’s an 84” Silver maple in the backyard of a friend of a friend. I’m working with the Treasured Tree database, as well as an inventory from the Biltmore Estate. I was surprised to see their largest diameter tree is a 66” sycamore. In the urban environment, I have been finding many trees larger than that.
I know you are limiting your study to the Ashville area but you may want to consider one thta is in my neighborhood of middle Georgia. We have a City owned Willow Oak that is 84" DBH that a third of the canopy was destroyed by straight line winds in spring of 2016. It is retrenching beautifully. I am happy to send you some photos if you want.
Stumpsprouts
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- Asheville
Very interesting. Response growth after storm damage is a whole separate study. That would be a great one to look at. A friend recently sent me a photo of a sugar maple in VT that tipped over in a hurricane in 1939. Still going strong
This is all work I’m doing voluntarily so time and budget constraints are making me feel good about keeping it to a singular county. But I might be traveling that way this winter for a personal trip so DM me the address and I’ll swing by if I can.
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