(photo by Bob: 2008-09-07 - map - explore)
Big Pine
Last Sunday, on our walk in the Petawawa Research Forest, we took the opportunity to measure some of the large white pines that we encountered. This was the second largest that we found. It measured about 128 inches in circumference at chest level, or about (switching to metric), 105 cm in diameter. Historically (but subsequent to the white pine harvest of the 1800s), pines as large as 127 cm in diameter have been measured locally.
The trees that we visited are some of those that we have previously found on our walks; there may be larger ones hiding in the forest. However it is unlikely that any would challenge the giant white pine in Haliburton County that has a diameter of 172 cm.