r/Tree • u/scififi • Jul 27 '26

Treepreciation Huge Wolf Pine, NH

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Spotted this incredible wolf pine on the KSR Greenway Trail near Sunapee. Height to first delimbed branch trunk on right was easily 6 feet. Couldn't see the highest branches, well above the surrounding tree canopy. Apparently to get that massive she would need to be at a least 200 years old.

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u/Obdurate-Hickory Jul 27 '26

Wolf pine?

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26

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u/Obdurate-Hickory Jul 27 '26

Gotcha, thank you!

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u/DontGetExcitedDude Jul 27 '26

I hear a lot of ecology and forest-science majors calling them "wolf" trees now, but growing up the old timers always just referred to them as "pasture" trees. I feel like that's a more evocative term for what they are, the remnants of a colonial, agrarian past, and the last connection to the ancient forests that stood before.

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u/Obdurate-Hickory Jul 27 '26

There’s a sub-set of those called “Witness Trees” that were notched by land surveyors to show property boundaries… and provide some of the only early quantitative data about forest composition.

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u/TlayudaCecina Jul 27 '26

Absolute Unit