The Ghost Oak's Halo
I found a formula a bit back which could approximate the age of a tree by its circumfrence and type, so we wandered through the woods last Saturday with cups full of coffee and a surveyor's tape measure, gathering abroreal waist measurements.
My initial, and quite uneducated, estimate of the age of the woods as a whole is about 50 years, and at some point in the near future I'll put together a grid, get measures for samples in the grids, then see how close I am in my estimation and whether parts of the woods are significantly older than others.
Last weekend, though, we were just doing the big trees we'd already identified.
This oak unfortunately died just over a year ago, right before we closed on the property. Lightening strike and infection, and who knows what else, but it lived for about 120 years.
The oldest trees we found were two pine trees, one of which was also dead. Both clocked in at around 195 years old.
