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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5417377" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>Mine is in southern Ohio, in the edge of the Appalachians. I think the reason I have a few doing well is because of the condition of the forest. There's a section about 40acres that is virgin, and it is absolutely prehistoric in there. Trees don't necessarily behave the way they do in a managed forest or regrowth. Everything grows ultra slow and has huge heart:sap ratios, hence the ash in the pics above being so dark. Once it gets so old it is almost entirely heart wood. I've got the state director of foresters monitoring it. He brings down college interns to show what the original oak/hickory dominant forests would have looked like. Apparently the state has a tract of virgin timber that the universities study, but it's beech/maple dominant. The ash borer problem is something they take extra interest in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5417377, member: 20583"] Mine is in southern Ohio, in the edge of the Appalachians. I think the reason I have a few doing well is because of the condition of the forest. There's a section about 40acres that is virgin, and it is absolutely prehistoric in there. Trees don't necessarily behave the way they do in a managed forest or regrowth. Everything grows ultra slow and has huge heart:sap ratios, hence the ash in the pics above being so dark. Once it gets so old it is almost entirely heart wood. I've got the state director of foresters monitoring it. He brings down college interns to show what the original oak/hickory dominant forests would have looked like. Apparently the state has a tract of virgin timber that the universities study, but it's beech/maple dominant. The ash borer problem is something they take extra interest in. [/QUOTE]
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