it amazes me how fast these things grow.. in the second pic. you can see all the whorls from when it was young.. and from the first pic... you can count the rest ..

i see around 7 in the lower pic.. and its hard on the pic to count in the first pic.. but im thinking this tree is around 20 years ....

and when i think about that.... i wonder what grade schooler came home with an arbor day seedling ... and mom or dad planted it in the front garden ...

at least in this case.. they didnt plant it 2 feet from the house .. lol ...

if you go back.. see if you can count the whorls better than in the pix ...

thx for the pix ...

ken

That has to be one of the fullest I’ve seen of that size. Thanks for the pix.

tj

Beautiful tree !

Nice specimen. It looks like it may have been weeviled at some point, but still impressive. In these parts open-grown white pines generally lose their lower branches to ice or late spring snow storms.

Nice White pines like this are still around up here, even where they do logging but generally are protected in parks & woodlands. The one below would've been made into 20 ft. logs back in the day bc most local saw mills of the time were limited to cutting that length of lumber.

The biggest problem protecting trees that have a life span between 200-450 years is that they eventually hit the end of the cycle and die from within and break apart as demonstrated by these trees residing at the 'Lost Forty' designated an SNA in MN that touts the only remaining 'Old growth' trees left after they were mistakenly overlooked during surveying of the logging era of that time.

Below is a Pinus strobus, the largest of the trees there, finally broke off in a wind storm several years ago. Estimated to be in that 400+ year age.

The SNA is awesome to see and stunning but the age of these trees and accompanying Red pines I'm afraid limits the length of time they'll be available for viewing by the public.

Below another P. strobus in the same SNA.

Link to a virtual tour of the 'Lost Forty' SNA (page down at the DNR site).

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/snas/detail.html?id=sna01063

Thanks, Bill. Sometimes we don't appreciate enough the "common" trees in our areas. Below is what I guess is a Himalayan white pine in the same state park (many trees were tagged, but not this one, or tag was lost). Rather stunning silver needles -- saw a similar-colored, bigger one in the Wash DC arboretum..

Nice original tree but the pruner in me is bothered by that watersprout! I didn't realize that was weevil related.

davidrt, I'm not sure the first-pic tree was weeviled -- if so, only slightly (it still has a single trunk). The ones I show further down most certainly were. I once saw a huge, multi-trunked-from-the-ground white pine in the Jefferson National Forest in southwest VA that was absolutely astonishing and seemed quite healthy and undamaged. It was protected on all sides by the oak forest.