Saw this EWP recently and thought it really cool with the multiple trunks coming off the main one. Had to be at least 3' diameter.
White pine weevil is most likely to thank for that. That was once in an open field with no competition. Common to see those in abandoned fields as long as there was no competition from other trees when it was young..
Well, this is one at the edge of my yard. An ugly EWP. Branches snap off of it every few years with snow load. 15-20 feet up, it forks into multiple leaders. Anyone who wants to climb it, just let me know. If'n you want to practice taking it down from the top, I'd watch and provide encouragement!
If those gnarly trees with many low branches and trunks were Fir trees, they would be called "Wolf" trees here in the PNW. Don't know the derivation of that name, whether Indian or early settler or what. "Wolf" trees; that's what we calls them!
Thanks for sharing. I learned a few things again today. Or maybe just relearned a few things I forgot due to CRS.
We got one here I’d love to see go, blocks the solar array and garden. It’s just over the property line and it dosnt bother the neighbor much so I guess it will remain.
Or it could have been wind or ice or snow damage as we see that here. But white pine is still one of my favorite trees. Yet, I've always been a pine or evergreen lover.
Thank you Flamestead for that link. Have known for years what they were called but never the why. I never had any idea that the term was so wide spread. I always thought it was only common to the NW!
White Pine trivia The White Pine is the tallest tree in Eastern North America. The tallest living White Pine in the US is the Boogerman Pine in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Apparently 200’ White Pines were common prior to the US being logged twice over. The British would come to NorthAmerica and put the kings mark on White Pines to be used as masts. Another interesting pre logging tidbit I learned is that 75% of the Southeast was Longleaf Pine Forest. Did you know New York City was built with the Longleaf Pine? I’m a cesspool of useless tree trivia.
I love tree trivia. You can be the Alex Trebek of the FHC! Here's another cool link on EWP. Cathedral Pines - Wikipedia I visited there in 2019. An hour from me. Ravaged by 1989 tornado. The broken spars are still standing surrounded by 30+ years of new growth.
As in cranial rectal immersion?. Or HIA. I get that now and again. Not necessarily age related though. Sca
