Agamok - Mueller portage

Moose river

Oyster lake - Oyster river portage







Lujenida - Zenith portage

Wine lake island campsite

South Arm - Hanson portage







Clove lake

Frederick - Wine portage

I always like seeing large or unique trees on my trips. Anyone else have any photos they'd like to share?

TB

quote snakecharmer: " "

Cool Beans!
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!!!

ive seen that "V" tree in other pics....snakecharmer for sure. i wonder how many photos of that have been taken.

hahaha..there it is!

:)

There is a V tree, another cedar, not quite as big on a hiking trail across from Gooseberry falls.

I was just on Wine earlier this month and stayed on that island camp site. It is "the island of tall pines". Now I'm not a hanger but I have never seen a site with so many pairs of perfect potential hanging trees.

Not the BWCA, I know, but I couldn't help it. Sequoia National Park: The Jurassic Park of trees - one of the coolest places in the world.

Cool stuff, just took my niece & family through Jedadia Smith State Park.....26 miles from my house.

I'm hiking the Old Pines Loop next weekend. It's just southeast of Snowbank Lake. Great name for a trail. No pics yet.

I like any trees where you can hang a hammock! :)

LOVE THIS THREAD!

Trees can be entertaining.

Wow you must really like trees, 8 year old thread.

I've added yo my collection. :)

Trees

Native American trail marking tree, NY. Verified by shocked mountain stewards, the empty ridge behind it is a (yikes) sod farm. Easily could have been lost to "urban sprawl". The tree is pointing to the headwaters of the Carmens River a 1/2 mile or so away which leads to the bay & ultimately the Atlantic Ocean. An ancient silent witness to time & place, hidden in plain site off trail amongst a protected pine forest...I almost fell over when I saw it, I knew exactly what it was & I am still awestruck.

You show'em fishguts and Uncle Moose!! We got the big trees out here. We've got some old growth stumps like those in a park about 8 miles from our house. The new growth trees are impressive but those old growth stumps really make you think about what it was like 200 years ago before the logging began. We have a few pockets of old growth in parks but not many.

cowdoc: " "

Can anyone explain the formation of the tree on the left?

missmolly: "

cowdoc: " "

Can anyone explain the formation of the tree on the left?"

Only a (SWAG) Scientific wild A$$ guess here. It looks like a beaver chewed on the trunk and did not kill the tree. Then it continued to grow. But I thought the tree nutrients go up and down at the bark area, so the tree should have died because bark or cambria is gone. Very strange.

Yes if a beaver chewed the tree it would have girdled it and it would have died.

As a forester by profession, but not an expert in bugs or disease, my guess is the tree was hit by a disease of some sort. I have seen trees grow through old metal pails and barrels and have similar effects too, but this doesn't look quite the same.

jerryr: "Yes if a beaver chewed the tree it would have girdled it and it would have died.


As a forester by profession, but not an expert in bugs or disease, my guess is the tree was hit by a disease of some sort. I have seen trees grow through old metal pails and barrels and have similar effects too, but this doesn't look quite the same."

Jerry,
Who are you a Forester for?

I cut my teeth firefighting out of Bemidji DNR, I was actually out of Bagley 91- 96

I'm a forester currently for a private company.

I am a 1986 grad of the U of M that has worked in WA, ID and Minnesota.

Grew up on the Iron Range.

fishguts: "Cool stuff, just took my niece & family through Jedadia Smith State Park.....26 miles from my house. "

I just booked spring break flight to San Francisco to get this picture with my own family.