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Richardson preserve, virgin white oaks, Quercus alba.

There are a few virgin white oaks on this ridge left, massive in size knowing the limestone conglomerate and cold water seeps at this location. The second row is a different tree than the one in the first, its off in the distance to the point where only the crown is visible, the right photo is the zoom in on this crown.

Some visible black walnuts in the area also display the same old growth taper and crown development as these open growth old growth oaks...

Knowing “age” can mean alot of things when it comes to trees. 

Successional age is an age that refers to its relative state of existing in comparisons to where it would stand due to time since it colonized and anthropological or recent natural disaster formed change to the greater landscape. These ages are usually written as such: 

The term “virgin” means an old growth tree prior to European settlement is present, the ground around it is still undisturbed and it has had time to focus on crown development as it has sat idle and undisturbed in-situ(in place). 

Old growth: this is different per region, but for my region and for our hardwoods( broad leaf angiosperm trees) instead of taper development being a primary objective, crown(the very top of the canopy) growth becomes the priority. In many forests and savannah this takes at least 200+ years for a tree to switch over to this growth pattern. Bark patterns change in legitimate old growth species too. An old growth stand will have an incredible duff layer, in many cases every year unless fire removes duff, The O horizon in these groves can be very deep. In these photos we can see very large open crown growth on these white oaks, no micro or side branching has occurred on the tree in quite some time and all growth occurs in the tips of branches (predominantly the crown tips). Widened crown like this with lower branches forming less than 30 feet from the base of the tree usually means this tree grew in open light scenarios, in savanna or open woodland habitat. Old growth woods and virgin groves are always a mix of different aged trees for the most part unless younger aged trees were cleared for something ( example, steep ravines that were hard to take massive hemlock out of, smaller hemlock were selected, these trees were taken due to large quantities of tannin present not for the anti-rot pole beams but for tanning directly). 

^old growth Fraxinus americana holding on but not for much longer( live vain only on left side of tree, right is dead from EAB crown growth displays this story all to well, This is also a good example of wiggle taper and forest taper vs. open savanna growth/ open forest growth. Still, most growth is only at the tip, when that remaining side dies the base may send up acute reaction suckers. 

Versailles SP, IN, My friend Abby for scale, old growth, open forest grown, black walnut, Juglans nigra

same black walnut’s crown beginning to form as lower limbs abort due to canopy closure /Far red light reaction ( dead branch on left with branch collar as the termination point.)

The long unbroken ridges of bark of an old growth Northern Red Oak Quercus rubra ( look at crown growth does it occur inside branches or only at the tips?) (old growth trees stick to tip development). 

Joyce Kilmer memorial forest, virgin, forest grown stand of Liriodendron tulipifera,  or yellow poplar/tulip poplar/ tulip magnolia/ tulip tree/ fiddletree by region. 

^ me for scale.

“Oak-Hickory-Chestnut-Tulip Poplar” Climax forest but really it’s just virgin forest at Joyce Kilmer and it contains a lot of Virgin/old growth oak, hickory and tulip poplar, the chestnuts are gone and honestly some of the old growth sassafras and black cherry here are just as big as any old growth oak you’ll find anywhere due to the massive virgin tulip poplars being adjacent. 

Forests that get old enough go through species succession to that is based on local climate delineating the types of trees found at the apex stage in my region many forest apex types are present Oak -Tulip Poplar-Hickory, Oak-Ash(not really anymore)-Walnut, Oak-Chestnut(well not really any more)-Pine-Hemlock, Oak-Walnut-Red Cedar(they can be late successional too), Burr Oak-Scrub, Cypress-Ash(again not really anymore)-Black Gum aka Tulipo, White Cedar-Hemlock-Oak-Ash(:/), and boreal matrix Beach-Maple-Oak up north. I don’t really like this way of defining apex forests because each forest is very unique at this point and has different land history and colonization history, categorizing early primary succession and  early secondary succession forests by tree type may not always be the case. Many scrub oak savanna on barrens are truly apex forests, and many mixed talus fields with only red and white cedars are also apex communities so to call eastern red cedars an early successional tree species(which is very true) requires additional information saying (it’s not just that though) or people will place the tree out of context until seeing it in a different light.

Wolf trees are their own complex and can either be mature or old growth/virgin. Rather, are usually older second growth trees, or trees that one point existed in savanna but are now in new forest formed from succession, or remnant old growth woodland trees that existed for wind breaks, property lines, grazing shade trees, or were not selected for cutting when the forest that was previously there was removed for agriculture giving in time to react to new stresses, form strange reaction wood, grow new limbs due to these stress factors(wind sheer and sun scald on trees that were once grown in forests may not be able to survive on there previous taper or with there branch pattern since they grew in close forest cluster, the trees may end up growing adventitious laterals, (Chemical pathway induced suckers are different from water sports or water suckers which are instantaneous growth reaction to certain stress that form what some call ACUTE stresses(lightning, linesman shit ass butcher jobs, borer attack) vs. pathway suckers which form from long term stresses (reaction to changes in their environment that started out in an acute way but are actively present at all times through many years)),   that offset the weight of the tree over time, cause shielding branches, and eventually fix the tree’s structural issues by being part of the same defense mechanisms as active buttressing root growth and hardening off each year. Wolf trees once these sites are abandon and are allowed to have company through succession, tend to hold on to their massive open growth newly formed crown and some of their strange, weak formed, laterals, for some time before re-adjusting if ever. Wolftrees are known to suppress vegetation when post ag or post abandonment succession starts. In some cases with the case of “Lonley Doug”,  the span is so great that it only looks like a wolf at the top and wear it is wind flagged/ broken, the bark is thick enough and the holding wood is strong enough that new ecosystem modifications (aka damage/ destruction) have to really take time to even cause enough damage for secondary/ pathway reaction and growth.

Savana-> new forest wolf. 

Second Growth mature, A mature stand of trees after a removal regime occurred, The age cap is like 150 or less in most states for these stands, many are often barely breaking an age of 100. 150 is really mainly seen in older states as the age cap. No tree is older than that and many are about that age. 

Second growth early successional, 

Very young and all very close in age. Virgin doug fir “lonley doug” and different back drops of different stages of clear cut second growth in the back ground :/ v sad. super shitty. Still going on in both USA and Cannada. This tree is in B.C.

^climbingarborist is where this photo came from originally 

Approximant dating:

The best way to tell a trees age is to get a sense of the species and to look at both the dbh(diameter at breast height), the placement of the tree, the reaction wood at the base, the taper of the buttressing roots, burn scars, site present and semi permanent ecology(local hydrology and soil texture stuff ect.), and the land history. It’s a complex of things that may help you only estimate a range of how old but gives you an idea without damaging the tree.

Core dating and delineation of age: 

Age in trees can be displayed in many ways, carbon dating and boring radial cores can be considered hazardous to the trees health, especially with those species that can’t exude resin or are low in tannins. Boring, whilst appearing small, actively is damaging a site that will never grow that wood back, nor compartmentalize that tissue. active CODIT (compartmentalization of decay in trees) occurs along breakage axis at points where a branch collar has formed with certain limitations( limb has to be 1/3 the size of the main branch to have CODIT active prior to severing the limb or wounding). CODIT is also active along far red light dependent abortion zones and abscission zones. CODIT will never be active in the core of a tree; because there is no meristem to produce callus tissue( specialized collenchyma and parenchyma ground cell aggregates) to wall of other tissue, xylem in a sense is functionally dead water and dissolved nutrient tissue with the remaining substances deemed protoplasm due to there ability to sink nutrients and form channels through gap junction/plasmodesmata to transfer solution (basically just water with some dissolved Ions) in horizontal fashion (xylem rays). While some protoplasm/holding wood is sclerid and may have functionally became a heaving cell or perhaps even protoplast( plant cells that have been stripped of their cell walls through the action of targeting enzymes, pectinases and cellulase,  in hardening off or during initial differentiation; they are still functionally dormant or “dead” cells that remain dormant for life with no change in tissue function.  Since trees grow horizontally from the outside- out forming new wood to the inside as xylem and phloem complex to the outside prior to cork cambium ect. the tree cannot form new wood to enclose even the smallest bore hole. That wound becomes permanent. 

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