Illinois Big Tree Register at The Nature Institute

Saturday May 3, 2008
9:00 am
The Nature Institute, Talahi Lodge

Cost: Free
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Patti Brown will be teaching participants how to measure trees using the Illinois Big Tree Register guidelines and using the information to measure trees around the Olin Nature Preserve and Mississippi Sanctuary. We will use this information for our own land management research and trees of extraordinary size will be submitted to the Illinois Big Tree Register for analysis to be included in the list of Native Champion Trees in Illinois. We will also be taking inventory of all the non-native trees of large size for our own inventory and possibly for the Big Tree Register of Illinois. Volunteers will spend about one hour learning how to measure trees and record GPS coordinates of trees. The next hour or so, volunteers will head out to the preserves and find and measure 5-10 trees.