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Sugar Maple age
kate wrote in message ...
Wouldn't it be 60" divided by 3.14 x 5 = 95.55? Isn't there a fairly good way to estimate a tree's age (without killing it, that is?) What other ways are there for knowing when a tree has reached it's maturity? (For instance, does it stop getting new growth?) Kate See if you can borrow a nice sharp "increment borer". It's a device for taking a small core sample of the tree. Boring into hardwoods isn't very fun and counting the rings can also be difficult on an old tree. It leaves a tiny hole, which some foresters plug back up with the core when they're done. How bout it, guys? Any thoughts of that practice? I worked with a former FIA plotter who claimed that it wasn't necessarily the best thing to do, possibly inviting fungi and diseases into the wood of the tree. I know that pines are very well adapted to plugging the hole on their own. Larry |
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