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02/10/2011 08:55PM
i don't want to highjack the favorite tree post so i'll start one about "odd trees"..shapes,places it's growing--so on.
my first one is dead,very dead.in 1985 on my way out of Lady Boot Bay i saw and took a photo of this dead Cedar.the corkscrew shape twisting around the truck really caught my eye.in 2009 i went that way again and paddled past to see if it's still there.
it is,and in all that time it has not changed much at all,sorry but the first photo is a slide i have not scanned yet.
my first one is dead,very dead.in 1985 on my way out of Lady Boot Bay i saw and took a photo of this dead Cedar.the corkscrew shape twisting around the truck really caught my eye.in 2009 i went that way again and paddled past to see if it's still there.
it is,and in all that time it has not changed much at all,sorry but the first photo is a slide i have not scanned yet.
02/10/2011 09:24PM
02/11/2011 11:16AM
quote BWPaddler: "quote snakecharmer: "Dr. Seuss tree on Agnes.
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How old was that tree do you suppose? It reminds me that Native Americans used to tie up young saplings in an odd shape like that to mark trail directions. That one looks a little young to be caused by that."
My guess is a tree (since removed) fell across this as a sapling - not killing it but bending it to the ground, then it continued to grow. Cool!
03/13/2011 04:03PM
here's another one i found while browsing thru my photo files 
it's just as big as it looks,very impressive.
i found it while exploring a island that from the looks of it no one else that ventured onto.a very old map,1970's showed a camp here once but i found no sign of it.
it's just as big as it looks,very impressive.
i found it while exploring a island that from the looks of it no one else that ventured onto.a very old map,1970's showed a camp here once but i found no sign of it.
07/13/2012 01:23PM
quote wetcanoedog: "the ones growing out of rock are almost a symbol of canoe country."
I agree! Here's one on Agnes (Quetico).
Always amazes me how much we struggle to get trees to grow in our yard considering all of the effort put into planting/watering, and the buggers grow right out of rock in the BWCA/Q.
07/13/2012 02:22PM
quote GeorgiaCoast: "quote BWPaddler: "quote snakecharmer: "Dr. Seuss tree on Agnes.
How old was that tree do you suppose? It reminds me that Native Americans used to tie up young saplings in an odd shape like that to mark trail directions. That one looks a little young to be caused by that."
My guess is a tree (since removed) fell across this as a sapling - not killing it but bending it to the ground, then it continued to grow. Cool!"
I recall reading somewhere that the tribes used to bend trees something like this to mark their trails. Any one have actual info on that idea?
07/13/2012 06:29PM
quote jcavenagh: "quote GeorgiaCoast: "quote BWPaddler: "quote snakecharmer: "Dr. Seuss tree on Agnes.
How old was that tree do you suppose? It reminds me that Native Americans used to tie up young saplings in an odd shape like that to mark trail directions. That one looks a little young to be caused by that."
My guess is a tree (since removed) fell across this as a sapling - not killing it but bending it to the ground, then it continued to grow. Cool!"
I recall reading somewhere that the tribes used to bend trees something like this to mark their trails. Any one have actual info on that idea?"
We came across this "native" bending trees in Quetico a couple of years ago :)
07/16/2012 06:35PM
quote h20: "Wheres the centennial hiking trail?"
It starts along the road to Tuscarora Outfitters.
Follows along the old railroad grade that serviced the mine that was briefly in operation near there over a hundred years ago. There are a number of interpretive stations along the way. Really a neat, historical hike. We even seen this guy along the way.
07/17/2012 03:56PM
quote Kevlar: "Spartan, there is a tree surrounding a rock on the portage between the east end of Davis Lake and the next little lake, before the now-unmaintained mudhole portage to Winchell. I don't think it is the same tree/rock as in your picture, but quite similar. Seems like one of the professional photographers had a picture of the one I remember in a coffee table book. "
My tree photo was taken at a campsite on the northern part of Caribou Lake, (the Caribou by Lizz/Poplar, not the one by Pine) which is on a grassy point. One of my other favorite photos was taken at this site and involves a tree, but not an odd one. It is a photo of Spartan1 in the early morning listening to a loon off in the morning mist. This was the last morning of our 22-day trip, and a very bittersweet time for us. I still get a lump in my throat when I look at this photo 20 years later:
01/06/2016 02:32PM
quote cowdoc: "Tree at campsite in North Bay, on the point before you head into Lost Bay. This tree must have been girdled by something, but I thought it quite odd that the top part above the girdling was bigger than the bottom."
I've seen that happen before with girding on trees. I think the pre-existing xylem can still allow some water movement up the tree, but the phloem is unable to move sugars downwards through the girdle. Phloem tissue (which occurs to the outside, just under the outer bark) is more transient than xylem and needs to be regenerated on a pretty regular basis. You get some continued active cambial growth and new xylem and phloem above the girdle; the cambium below the girdle is pretty much starved out and does not generate much new xylem, phloem or outer bark. The tree is probably going down, in time, as the tissues below the girdle need sugars for new root growth, etc. I think most of us remove/cut away cordage if we find some left around a tree... that may well have been the culprit, here.
01/08/2016 04:41PM
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