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Bald Cypress
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Noted Kenosha County "citizen conservationist" and environmentalist Phil H. Sander (1906-2006) holding a tape measure around the trunk of the Rhodesdale bald cypress in Kenosha County. The tree was transplanted from Louisiana in the mid 1800's by John Rhodes. The Rhodes farm is now part of the Richard Bong State Recreation Area.
1962
Schulz, Wally E.
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WHi 127459
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Trail Marker Tree
January 1965
Phil Sander (1906-2006), noted Kenosha conservationist and environmentalist, posing next to a "trail tree" which has two right-angled curves in its trunk. Prior to European settlement, Native Ameri...
Wyalusing Silver Maple
1968
A sign that reads: "The Giant Tree" has been attached to the bent trunk of a large silver maple tree. A smaller tree in the background has a similarly bent trunk. Both stood at Signal Point in Wyal...
Camperdown Elms
September 1963
A well-matched pair of weeping elms (Ulmus glabra camperdownii) obscuring the front of a two-story house. A swollen ring around the trunk of each tree marks the site of the graft of the pendulous p...
Meier's Oak
1980
The tall, straight trunk of a large white oak dwarfs others around it on land homesteaded by (Carl) Albert Meier in 1883. At the time of the photograph, the tree was estimated to be over 300 years ...
Magnus Swenson Trees
1982
A solitary Norway spruce is framed by the limb and trunk of a large tree on "Thorstrand," the former estate of entrepreneur Magnus Swenson. Snow is on the ground. In the background is the Mary Nort...
Allison and Hoffmann
1979
R. Bruce Allison, left, and B. Wolfgang Hoffman posing in front of the massive trunk of a tree. Allison, an arborist, is the author, and Hoffmann the photographer, of the 1980 book, Wisconsin's Cha...
