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The Thorndale Oak was rated in 1941 by the American Forestry Association as the largest of its species in the United States, and at 353 years it may also have become the oldest. Even so, as trees go, it was but a middling oldster. Red oak is a comparatively short-lived species, about in a class with sugar maple, tulip, live oak, and sweet gum. The expectancies of some other species, calculated by dendrologists from ring-counts in many specimens, are these:
Beware the Bulldozer. Impossible to show by camera is the compaction of soil over tree roots which those clanking treads inflict. Clearly shown is the heaping of earth over roots, which will soon smother them. The lower picture shows a typical bulldozer trunk wound. |
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