Re: KRS - Possible news to come

From: Alan Crozier (Alan.Crazier_at_telia.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:38:18 GMT

"David B" <tronospamchos@tesco.net> wrote in message
news:NwB1d.185$ij5.41@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
> Eric Stevens wrote in message ...
> >
> >On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:29:15 GMT, "David B" <tronospamchos@tesco.net>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>Can somebody remind me where this 50-year life
> >>expectancy figure comes from ...
> >
> >Minnesota Historical Society report of 1910.
> >
> >I would have thought you would have known that.
>
> No- the MHS report gave the _minimum_ likely age for the KRS tree, based
on
> ring counts from other similar trees. They came up with a best estimate of
> 42 years. Now, however, we have Phil introducing the claim that:
> >>>>
> >>>>a trees natural life
> >>>>expectancy in someones back yard is probably 20% longer
> >>>>than that in the wild, so if that tree cannot live over 40
> >>>>in someones back yard, and if it were not dead at the time
> >>>>it was cut, more than likely it is between 10 and 30 years
> >>>>of age.
> >>>>
> which he subsequently modifies with a passage stating:
> >>>
> >>>Personally I like the year 1862. gives a nice little basis for
> >>>the date on the stone, even 500 years distance. Nearer to 50
> >>>than to 10 = 30+ years, however they might not have good
> >>>statistics on the life expectancy of such trees then.
>
> So the MHS are referring to minimum ages, but Phil is referring to maximum
> ages (which don't match what I know about the life expectancy of aspen
> trees). Or have I missed something really obvious?
>
>
> David B.
>
> PS: Inger's reference to Appendix 2 of Barry Hanson's magnum opus hasn't
> helped either. There ain't no such appendix!

Inger has an ability to see things that no one else does. Like a reference
to Norumbega in a diploma about Greenland that she has cited in the other
thread about the city of Greenland.

No doubt all will be revealed in her forthcoming books and articles.

Alan 

-- 
Alan Crozier
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