State Record Trees

[Ron Scott]

Michigan

RE:  BYRON SAILOR MEASURED MICHIGAN RECORD WHITE PINE
 
Fun find for Michigan! 
 
155 feet tall, 15 feet+ circumference, 63-foot crown spread.
Big Tree formula is Circumference (inches) + height (feet) + 0.25 average crown spread = points
 
https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/10/a-remote-upper-peninsula-white-pine-has-been-crowned-michigans-tallest-tree.html 
 

[barbender]

What an incredible find!

[Jeff]

Wow!

[chet]

A few of us Forum members may have already visited that site.  
The photo on the welcome page of Just Jim huggin' da big tree was in that very same area.

[Roxie]

That's truly awesome!  Thanks for sharing that Ron. 

[Jeff]

Yup, very very close, but by the discription not the tree. Sounds like it's on the Mccormick tract.

[chet]

We wuz in the northern corner of McCormick Tract.   If ya remember we parked da machines at a boundary sign and walked a ways in. Check da photos ya took, you may even have one of da boundary sign.

[beenthere]

This one?


 

[chet]

yup 8)  Did ya happen ta git a pic of da sign were we parked da machines.

I see da early stages of my bald head wuz startin' ta show up back then.  :D

[beenthere]

Have this pic of the Ottawa Nat'l Forest sign


 

And includes the great camp cook (one of several) on the right, Jeff's brother-in-law Pete (may he rest in peace)

[chet]

Yer da man, dats da entrance sign.   

An interesting visitor recount of the area.  Note the comments at the 3:48 PM point.    https://www.summitpost.org/mccormick-tract-nct/354271

[beenthere]

A closer look at the sign.. where our host passed member nailhead pointing out something.. maybe the tree location? Pic taken 9/22/2007


 

[Clark]

Always interesting to hear of those large trees.

I've had the opportunity to go onto the Huron Mountain Club property several times. We hiked back to the location of a large white pine just to see what was around. We didn't bring anything to measure it until the second year. I think I lasered it at 152' tall and somewhere around 5' diameter. Supposedly not the largest on the property but certainly one of the largest.

Clark

[SwampDonkey]

Nice big old specimen for sure.

Not to boast or noth'n, but the Aroostook, NB white pine is 22 feet circumference, 130 feet tall. But not as nice a specimen as yours in Michigan, it has multiple stems. But it did influence the route of the 4-lane highway.  ;)