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Spectacular trees... ever come across them?

This was the biggest tree I have personally seen in NC. It was simply called "Big Oak" on the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge. It died and then lightning struck and burned it down. This pic was taken shortly after it burned.
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What... An... Awesome... Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I gotta dig up some pictures, mostly of trees loaded with character, but I may have pix of 2 champion trees here in SC...
 
This has became one of my favorite threads on here! I've always loved big trees and look for them whenever I can. I'm lucky enough to own some land that has big oak trees still on it in spots. Much bigger timber than anything else around due to logging. I did find a very big oak few weeks ago while scouting a new spot of public but I apparently didn't snap a pic, will next time I'm there. My grandparents old house has a pin oak tree on the front yard that measures 27 ft circurmfrence, always loved climbing that big ol tree! I have some pics of it somewhere I'll try to find. I do have this one on my phone, I took this opening day of rifle season this season while filming a couple bucks, you can see one of the big oak trees around this hay field in the pic. On another forum I had more people talking about how big that tree is just because of how rare that is due to all the logging in our stateBDA4C756-917C-464C-8016-4B2499A5D5DE.jpeg.jpeg

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Nutterbuster said:
Some pretty nice bucks, too
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Thanks, the one on the right in that pic is also the one on the right in my avatar, both of those in my avatar were from this year and were standing within 10 ft of the same spot when they got shot. The other in that pic and several other good ones should be around next year if I get time to hunt any

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Can't find pictures of the loblolly pine in congaree park in SC I saw when camping with the Boy Scouts, thing was huge. Most don't get that big because lightning strikes em, but this one was smart enough to plant itself in a low part of the land.
 
I haven’t gotten to get back out and measure just yet, but I am hoping to get circumference and canopy measurements this week. I don’t have a clinometer, so I can’t get a height on them. But, that should get me in the ballpark to see if they warrant official measurement.

The same day I ran across two of those, I also ran across what might possible be an Indian Marker Tree. Indian Marker Trees are trees intentionally manipulated to bring attention to something that needed communicating. It could mark a territory boundary, direct you on a trail, point out an important feature, or a myriad of other purposes.
They are exceedingly rare, and considered important finds.

I have contacted a Representative of the Texas Historic Tree Coalition, and they have asked for me to take some measurements of this tree to see if it is old enough to possibly truly be an Indian marker tree. My first instinct was that it was too young, but it was explained to me that the drastic malformation of the tree drastically restricts its vascular system causing it to grow MUCH slower than other trees. I plan on doing some very detailed measurements this week as well. I hope to get back to y’all about what they say. It surely does resemble a marker tree to a “T”
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I discovered this hollow cypress snag at the end of a ridge between two sloughs. Before this area had become a National Wildlife Refuge it was hunted hard by a large hunting club. Seems as though someone turned this unique tree into a pretty neat ground blind by cutting some windows in it. The snag was about 30 feet tall and I'm sure that it drafted any scent up like a chimney does smoke. This was a high density deer area, and I have to believe that this natural stand had offered lots of shooting opportunities.

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IkemanTX said:
The same day I ran across two of those, I also ran across what might possible be an Indian Marker Tree. Indian Marker Trees are trees intentionally manipulated to bring attention to something that needed communicating. It could mark a territory boundary, direct you on a trail, point out an important feature, or a myriad of other purposes.
They are exceedingly rare, and considered important finds.

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Kind of like this one I found in the Allegheny National Forest???
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Still trying to figure out how to hunt out of this tree. (Public land, can't cut branches)
 
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