FUN Big Tree List

http://www.fremontica.com/roadside/FUN_tree_list.php

My Friend Hugh Danaher is building this website. It's like the Big Tree Register in a sense. But you can add your Biggest trees in your community, even if they are not state champs, more like City Champs. It is a good tool for recording your biggest species and understanding microclimates and good soil as indicators of good growth. It may be worthy of an ISA Gold Leaf Award.
Boy Scouts of America can get involved in this project as they may be our future stewarts of the Urban Forest.It's a good project for an Eagle Scout and we are going to meet with Troop 110 with a few weeks. I also added a little information about the nominator, it's a good way to get interagency connections and cooperation for tree planting projects. Even High School, College kids. Senior Citizens, Church groups could help. Either way it is a good resource tool.

If more Cities did this then the State Big Tree Register would have first hand knowledge of the Big Trees to drawl from each City and could be certified to do so. Tree City USA! Newark 20years Fremont 10years Union City 1 year.

Kind Regards

Nelson Kirk

Pretty incomprehensible . . . it would make a lot more sense cited as the standard for tree measurements, metres height × centimetres diameter at breast height.

Resin

Agree with Resin. It's a start, but uncomparable with other big tree lists, or tree lists of any kind that I've seen. As girth varies drastically depending on how high up the trunk it is measured (for instance), it really doesn't mean much.

I admit, I am naive at times, but
What is the crown measurement -diameter, circumference, volume(LOL) . . . . ?
What are points?
Not very user friendly as this and other very basic data collecting information seem to be elusive on the site, thereby making it meaningless.

Here is the formula we are using. California standards.

http://www.ufei.org/BigTrees/nominate.html

USA Standards

http://www.championtrees.org/champions/championtree.htm

It's mostly the same standard.

Ahhh . . . of course. As I suspected. You have to be a person deeply involved with the site to understand. (Either no someone, or be a contributor.)

Well then, that could be easily corrected. That was my big gripe.

The part that confussed me at first was determining the spread and then calculate 1/4 of that spread for final points by feet.

When I first seen the state site I noticed Sacramento, Ca. had the most big trees in Capital Park, an old park well maintained.

I was working for the City of Fremont Parks at the time and knew we had several big nurseries dating back to 1860,s. which = many old trees around town.

It took 6 visits with the Forestry Department on my own time to add all of our trees. They still had 4-6 more trees to add from Fremont but must of lost the records. Even though Fremont trees may still not be the biggest out there. I like the idea of cataloging one's biggest trees in the region for a resource in determining spacing requirements when planting trees. Another interest is observing trees that have gone without care for many years. Old pioneer trees that are long lived, drought tolerant and somewhat low maintenance. I like to plant trees that will live over a 100 years.

To me the old plantsmen left us a nice grove of trees to study. In an environment like the Bay Area of California it's a rat race. Seeing these old historic trees gives our cities some personality and charm and helps takes the edge off us all.