Sorry if im geeking out for no reason but my kids and I saw this massive stump today in a nature preserve in my hometown (Wesselman Woods in Evansville, Indiana if anyone is familiar) and I can’t get over it. Just wanted to share and see if anyone has any info to share! The child in the picture is 4 feet tall. It feels like this would have been a massive tree! The sides of the stump visible in the pictures are almost exactly 5 feet wide so the circumference is (very rough estimate based on my wingspan) about 16 feet. These woods contain a virgin forest although there are areas of secondary growth too so I don’t know which part this tree was in. The logs from the tree are arranged all around it and you can see that it was rotted and was going to fall. It’s near a play area so I’m assuming they had to cut it for safety reasons rather than letting it fall naturally, which is what they normally do.
I also found learned some really interesting tidbits from oldgrowthforest.net –
“[Wesselman Woods] is the largest tract of virgin forest located inside any city limits in the United States. The oldest trees are over 400 years old. Among the largest of their species are 3 state champions (Schneck Oak, Biltmore ash & Juneberry) and two county champion trees (Tulip Poplar & Chinquapin Oak). One of the tallest trees in Vanderburgh County is a tulip poplar located within the park. It is 166 feet tall with a 14.4 foot circumference.”
by Next-Introduction-25
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