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re: Measuring trees for Louisiana/National big tree registry
Posted on 6/17/12 at 4:16 pm to Langston
Posted on 6/17/12 at 4:16 pm to Langston
Yep, pretty sure. Its only been in the last 20 years that every parcel of land has been posted. And botanists know which lands to look on. If you look at the taxo-visited sites by parish at the big herbariums (the ones that are finished) you see the suckers covered with hundreds, sometimes thousands of sites. But,obviously there may be a very very few trees that are old enough to be near records and haven't been seen by a forester, taxo botanist, botanist, amateur reporters, etc., but I doubt it.
I remember being with a taxo professor that was doing a friend of a friend a favor and checked out an oak tree (dont remember the species)whilein the area. After looking at it, he told the owner it was "very impressive" etc, but it wasnt nearly a record. the owner asked how much bigger it had to get....the professor said - "about twice that size".
I remember being with a taxo professor that was doing a friend of a friend a favor and checked out an oak tree (dont remember the species)whilein the area. After looking at it, he told the owner it was "very impressive" etc, but it wasnt nearly a record. the owner asked how much bigger it had to get....the professor said - "about twice that size".
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Posted on 6/17/12 at 7:03 pm to jeffsdad
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Its only been in the last 20 years that every parcel of land has been posted.
The difference in posted property is timber company land that has leased out to clubs. They are cutting everything anyway. Private owners like my dad, that have large parcels, have been posted alot longer and you arent just cruisin into his or anyones for that matter without permission.
Posted on 6/17/12 at 10:00 pm to jeffsdad
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jeffsdad
Whenever we saw really big trees, we never really told anyone. It was just understood to leave it alone and let someone else stumble upon it a few(20-30) years down the line. It was too much of a PITA for a logger to mess with it and we kinda wanted to preserve it. We would rarely get into an oak that big because it would be all rotted out from the bottom up.
Hardwoods typically aren't a thick type of woods because of so much cover. Pine trees pretty much max out at under 40". After that long, the stand naturally switches to hardwoods. You can be 100ft away from something huge and never know what you missed. Most of the big trees I have seen were just a single tree, but I have seen a couple of 30, 50, and 1-100 acre stand of old growth trees and know that somewhere around those singles would be another big one. They typically just fall down when they get that big because of the weight, water conditions, or rot
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