Thursday, March 25, 2010

Measuring Our New Native Trees

We planted 2 each one-year-old bare root stock of 4 native tree species: Dogwood, Hazelnut, Persimmon, and Willow Oak. We decided it would be a good first week of Spring activity to measure the height and circumference of each tree. To do the circumference, we wrapped a piece of paper around each tree just above the ground, marked where the paper extended to, and stretched the paper flat on the tape measure to read the circumference.  I will keep the data on Excel so we can update it annually. 

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