[at-l] Logging on the AT in Maine

[Snodrog5@aol.com (Snodrog5@aol.com)]

Trailwife@aol.com writes:
> TJ < counted 120 rings on one stump.
> 
Must have been a second growth tree.
ORR
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Depends when you start counting :O)
All the forests of Maine have been "harvested", those near rivers like the 
Penobscot have been cut several times. There are few 'old growth' groves in 
New England, the best known is the Big Reed Forest north of Baxter The tree 
species in Maine are not the long-lived kinds you find in the west. If you're 
in Maine woods with 80 year old trees, you are in rare company indeed. There 
are  individual old trees, (a 300 year old red oak in Alfred, for one) but 
with fire, disease, and weather, old age is uncommon.
TJ


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