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  • From: Heide Hermary <heidehermary@pacificcoast.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Centuries-old oak toppled in Maryland storm
  • Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:57:09 -0700

Any idea what kind of disease it had? It might have been "old", but oaks
live a
lot longer than that.
Heide

mIEKAL aND wrote:

> Centuries-old oak toppled in Maryland storm
>
> June 7, 2002 Posted: 7:48 PM EDT (2348 GMT)
>
> WYE MILLS, Maryland (AP) -- The massive Wye Oak, the living symbol of
> Maryland's state tree and designated the largest white oak in the country,
> was toppled Thursday during a thunderstorm.
>
> The tree was estimated to be more than 460 years old -- meaning it was
> growing in Maryland before the pilgrims arrived. It was 104 feet tall, with
> a
> trunk 32 feet in circumference, and weighed 200 tons.
>
> The tree was included on a species-by-species list of the largest trees in
> the country compiled in 1940 by American Forests, a nonprofit citizens
> conservation organization.
>
> The centuries-old tree was spread across Route 662 in Talbot County. About
> 30
> people surrounded the tree Thursday evening in pouring rain, with some
> taking
> branches as souvenirs.
>
> Wind gusted to 60 mph during Thursday's storm, the weather service said.
>
> Gov. Parris Glendening said in a statement late Thursday that he was
> saddened
> by the loss of "one of our state's most historic, beautiful and stately
> natural symbols."
>
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