Interesting tree monument I found.

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) Oct 17, 2007

This was at a old paper mill in the area. Quite amazing stats. Didn't understand what a Douglas Fir was doing here though, unless they shipped that in.

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JasperDale Long Beach, CA(Zone 10a) Oct 17, 2007

very cool, Al.

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Oct 17, 2007

It would have to have been shipped in from the west coast.

Really sad that they could destroy such a superb ancient tree, just to make paper.

What's even worse is that this sort of vandalism is still going on.

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) Oct 17, 2007

This area was one of the largest papermaking areas in the world years ago. Our state's current largest tree is in my hometown, but I always thought it was a bit cheap as it is really a clump of Cottonwoods.

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AZPHATMAN Mesa, AZ Oct 29, 2007

There is no way they can tell how old that tree is by the rings. Counting rings was debunked back in the 1980's. Southern Pacific harvested some of the trees they grew from saplings around Lake Tahoe that they had planted 75 years earlier after they had clear cut the entire forest. Those 75 year old trees had averaged nearly 350 rings and they were only 75 years old. I remember the article at the time and the thinking was each time the trees started to go dormant and then say we got and Indian summer they would get a ring for each dormant spurt. So if it got cold for a few weeks any time of year and then warmed up again you could have many rings in any given year depending on the weather.

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bigcityal Appleton, WI(Zone 5a) Oct 29, 2007

I have heard that too - that there are usually several rings for a years time.


I did get a pic of the largest tree in WI, a cottonwood with a 30' circumference in my parent's town. Always wondered how it was official since it looks like multiple stems??

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Oct 30, 2007

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I remember the article at the time and the thinking was each time the trees started to go dormant and then say we got and Indian summer they would get a ring for each dormant spurt

That can happen in a few cases (and has long been known; I've got a 1967 book that mentions it, and not as anything particularly new), but generally for temperate trees, ring counts are reliable.

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