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Four Treescan the Forest Adapt to New Problems? CONNECTICUT Woodlands FOUR TREES CAN THE FOREST ADAPT TO NEW PROBLEMS? The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association Winter 2013 Volume 77 No. 4 The ConnectiCuT ForesT & Park assoCiaTion, inC. OFFICERS PRESIDENT, ERIC LUKINGBEAL, Granby VICE-PRESIDENT, WILLIAM D. BRECK, Killingworth VICE-PRESIDENT, GEOFFREY MEISSNER, Plantsville VICE-PRESIDENT, DAVID PLATT, Higganum VICE-PRESIDENT, STARR SAYRES, East Haddam TREASURER, JAMES W. DOMBRAUSKAS, New Hartford SECRETARY, ERIC HAMMERLING, West Hartford FORESTER, STEVE BRODERICK, Eastford DIRECTORS RUSSELL BRENNEMAN, Westport ROBERT BUTTERWORTH, Haddam STARLING W. CHILDS, Norfolk RUTH CUTLER, Ashford LAURENCE DIAMOND, Coventry KATHLEEN GROLL CONNOLLY CAROLINE DRISCOLL, New London A painted turtle (Chrysemys picta picta) suns itself above the warm August waters of Selden Creek. ASTRID T. HANZALEK, Suffield JEAN CRUM JONES, Shelton See page 20. DAVID LAURETTI, Bloomfield MICHAEL LECOURS, Farmington DAVID K. LEFF, Collinsville SCOTT LIVINGSTON, Bolton LAUREN L. McGREGOR, Hamden Connecting People to the Land Annual Membership JEFFREY O’DONNELL, Bristol DEBORAH C. SPALDING, Guilford Our mission: The Connecticut Forest & Park Individual $ 35 RICHARD WHITEHOUSE, Glastonbury Association protects forests, parks, walking Family $ 50 trails and open spaces for future generations by HONORARY DIRECTORS connecting people to the land. CFPA directly Supporting $ 100 GORDON L. ANDERSON, Glastonbury involves individuals and families, educators, HARROL W. BAKER, JR., Bolton Benefactor $ 250 community leaders and volunteers to enhance RICHARD A. BAUERFELD, Redding GEORGE M. CAMP, Middletown and defend Connecticut’s rich natural heritage. ANN M. CUDDY, Lakeville CFPA is a private, non-profit organization that Life Membership $ 2500 SAMUEL G. DODD, North Andover, MA relies on members and supporters to carry out JOHN E. HIBBARD, Hebron its mission. PHILIP H. JONES, JR., Shelton Corporate Membership EDWARD A. RICHARDSON, Glastonbury Our vision: We envision Connecticut as a L. P. SPERRY, JR., Middlebury place of scenic beauty whose cities, suburbs, Club / Non-profit $ 75 SALLY L. TAYLOR, Mystic and villages are linked by a network of parks, SIDNEY VAN ZANDT, Noank Sustaining $ 100 forests, and trails easily accessible for all people STAFF to challenge the body and refresh the spirit. We Landmark $ 250 COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE, JENNIFER BENNER, Roxbury picture a state where clean water, timber, farm Stewardship $ 500 EDUCATION DIRECTOR, LORI PARADIS BRANT, Rockfall fresh foods, and other products of the land make FOREST & PROGRAM DIRECTOR, GOODWIN FOREST CENTER, a significant contribution to our economic and Leadership $ 1000 STEVE BRODERICK, Eastford TRAIL STEWARDSHIP DIRECTOR, CLARE CAIN, Niantic cultural well-being. MEMBERSHIP & MARKETING DIRECTOR, MARTY GOSSELIN, Durham Connecticut Woodlands EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ERIC HAMMERLING, West Hartford WalkCT DIRECTOR, LESLIE LEWIS, Lyme Published quarterly by the DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, JAMES W. LITTLE, Hebron Connecticut Forest & Park Association, LAND CONSERVATION DIRECTOR, LINDSAY MICHEL, North Haven 16 Meriden Road, ADVANCEMENT ASSISTANT, KARA MURPHY, Guilford Rockfall, CT 06481-2961 OFFICE MANAGER, TERESA PETERS, Durham Indexed in the Connecticut Periodical Index, Printed on recycled paper ISSN 00106257 EDITOR, CHRISTINE WOODSIDE Telephone: 860-346-TREE GRAPHIC DESIGNER, KAREN WARD Fax: 860-347-7463. E-mail address: [email protected] World Wide Web site: m http://www.ctwoodlands.org 2 | CONNECTICUT WOODLANDS | WINTER 2013 CONNECTICUT Woodlands The Magazine of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association WINTER 2013 Volume 77 No. 4 CONTENTS FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 6 I. OAK. 4 LETTER. Venerable and vulnerable. Father of the Everglades. By Edward McGuire and Alex Barrett. 4 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. 10 II. SUGAR MAPLE. How much do we really know The old favorite faces stress. about trees? By Thomas Worthley. By Eric Lukingbeal. 12 III. ASH. 5 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE. A common tree begins battle with an Going beyond conflict to solutions. invasive insect. By Eric Hammerling. By Gail Braccidiferro MacDonald. On the Cover: “Charter Oak,” by Charles DeWolf 5 EDITOR’S NOTE. Brownell. 15 IV. BLACK LOCUST. After the storm. WADSWORTH ATHENEUM Good for fencing, bad for power lines. By Christine Woodside. By Christine Woodside. 24 FROM THE LAND. This issue’s theme, “Four Trees,” is 20 IMAGINING SELDEN ISLAND. Why was it called Hartford From quarry to wildlife haven. Election Cake? inspired by Paul Greenberg’s book, By Kathleen Groll Connolly. By Jean Crum Jones. Four Fish, in which he analyzes the 23 A CENTURY SINCE THE FIRST 26 ESSENTIAL FACTS OF LIFE. state of four fish humans have relied CONNECTICUT STATE PARK. Meet an exceptional teacher: It’s almost time to celebrate. The outdoor-oriented Lynn Kochiss. on for centuries. The book won the By Christine Woodside. By Lori Paradis Brant. James Beard award and a Grantham 28 WalkCT Obesity rates to rise: Prize Award of Special Merit. Parks could help reverse. By Leslie Lewis. 29 OBITUARIES Charles Foster. Martha Daniells Austin. WINTER 2013 | CONNECTICUT WOODLANDS | 3 LETTER PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Father of the Everglades How much do we really know am the historian for the New Haven Bird Club. In 2007, we celebrated our centennial. In the years lead- about trees? ing up to that, I did a lot of research on our history. We I have a couple of lists of our charter members from 1907 BY ERIC LUKINGBEAL and Ernest and Anna [Coe] (see Connecticut Woodlands, Fall 2012) appear on them. In my initial search for infor- his issue of Connecticut Woodlands takes a close mation on the charter members, I didn’t find out much look at four trees—oak, sugar maple, ash, and black more than the fact that he owned the Elm City Nursery. locust. All are now common here, but one—ash— They dropped off our membership roll in may be far less common in only a decade or so, as 1923. Note: we did not have a yearbook dur- T ing 1924–1925 when they moved to Florida. the emerald ash borer beetles get a foothold. Another— Many of the men who were members back sugar maple—may be less common as it creeps north as then had gone to Yale. I searched Yale’s ar- the climate keeps on warming. Many consider black lo- chives and couldn’t find any evidence of him cust an exotic invasive, though I find them quite attractive, especially when graduating from there. However, I did see viewed as a tree line from a distance. Everyone knows our sturdy oaks, of that he took some classes. Since he had such a course. As I wrote the preceding sentence, though, I wondered how well limited association with Yale, there was noth- we as a modern people know our tree species. ing to find in a yearbook at Sterling Library, and I gave up In the 1950s, I attended a summer YMCA camp. One of the counselors searching for him shortly thereafter. drilled us on the identities of most of the large species along the camp’s deep Some time later, I was looking for other information woods trails. He used the leaf size and shape, and sometimes bark color and at the Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum and texture. His teaching method was giving repeated oral quizzes. We learned to came across a photo of him in a Rotary Club directory from identify 40 species. I still know them and have used what I learned to identify 1924. That sparked my interest again. So I wandered over others. My efforts to get better at this have been helped by buying David Al- to the card catalog file and looked up his name. There was len Sibley’s The Sibley Guide to Trees (Knopf, 2009). The first 35 or so pages a reference to a 1951 obituary with his name in one of the introduce the reader to tree taxonomy, names, and identification. I’ve reread manuscript collections. I looked it up and started reading: this section several times; it’s the best short primer on learning tree species. “Mr. Ernest F. Coe, 84, father of the movement which Mr. Sibley makes the point that our brains are good at recognizing pat- established Florida’s Everglades National Park. ” terns, and that is the starting point for learning tree species. The next “What!?” I said to myself. That’s about how old my Er- point he makes is to get field experience. Arboreta, where trees are often nest Coe would have been, but maybe this is someone else labeled, are ideal. We here in Connecticut are lucky to have Connecticut because I’ve never heard of this after reading 100 years of College (in New London), Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens (in Stamford), New Haven Bird Club minutes and other archives. Read- and several Hartford parks. I have to say it’s too bad that Bushnell Park in ing on through the next two paragraphs just made me Hartford has not been able to keep up with its labeling. Only a small per- shake my head more and more. Then getting to the para- centage of its trees are labeled, and the number of trees has declined from graph about his birth, Yale (which I knew was in error or its peak. But the trees themselves are often spectacular, mature examples at least a misrepresentation), and moving to Florida right of individual species. when he dropped off our roll, I knew this was the same My personal favorites are the bald cypress, turkey oak, and sweet gum. guy. Incredible! Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s longtime board member, Ed So, thanks for adding to my knowledge base about him. Richardson, still leads the tree walks at Bushnell Park and in Hartford’s The two things I was most impressed with your article were old cemeteries such as Cedar Hill. A walk with Ed is a great way to learn that (1) you caught that he didn’t graduate from Yale. I more about trees. found that in error in other places than just the obituary I am gratified to learn that, like my YMCA camp of long ago, CFPA’s .
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