Large black birch near the observatory.
On New Year’s Day, 2009, Bob Leverett measured this tree and found its
girth is 8.8 feet (8′ 9.6″) and its height is 82.7 feet. According to Bob, “It is definitely worth tracking this tree as one of the big ones in Massachusetts.”

measuring the old beech tree

an old hop hornbeam

up an old hemlock