MORE BIGGIES: The biggest black cherry tree in Pennsylvania
ought to be in Kane, right? Alas, it’s located in Warren
County.

We continue today with our report on the biggest trees in our
region, data we gleaned from a 2006 statewide list compiled by the
Pennsylvania Forestry Association.

The black cherry in question, located at the Irwin Research
Facility in Warren, had a circumference of 190 inches. That’s a
15-foot girth! It stood 121 feet tall and its crown measured 68
feet across. Warren County had a second candidate in the black
cherry category, a large tree located in the Tionesta Scenic area
of the Allegheny National Forest. Its circumference was 195 inches,
it was 95 feet tall, and has a crown measuring 76 feet across.

These two black cherry topped the statewide list.

And, as we told readers yesterday, Warren County has quite a few
big trees that made this statewide list thanks in no small part to
the Allegheny National Forest.

Buckaloons recreation area has two large trees, including a
bitternut hickory which was the largest in the state with a
circumference of 142 inches, and standing 118 feet tall. The second
is a dotted hawthorn which has a circumference of 54 inches, and
stands 32 feet tall.

The Forest Science Lab in Warren County can claim a large sweet
crab apple – 31 inches around, 45 feet tall. A shagbark hickory,
two miles south of Irvine, measured in at 162 inches circumference,
and it stands 83.3 feet tall.

A European larch at Newbold Estate, Irvine, topped the state
list with a circumference of 128 inches. It stands 125 feet tall. A
Japanese larch on the Hoffman farm, 1.5 miles south of Ludlow, is
75 inches around, and 120 feet tall.

Warren County even has the winners on the “pine” side, including
two Eastern white pines. One has a circumference of 150 inches, and
is 173.2 feet tall. A second on Anders Run in the National Forest
was 156 inches around and 167.1 feet tall.

A Scotch pine on Big Tree Road, Sugargrove, is 124 inches in
circumference and 66 feet tall.

An Englemann Spruce on the Swanson property, Sugar Grove, is 155
inches around and 44 feet tall. A Norway spruce on Anders Run,
Irvine, is 122 inches around, and 132.7 feet tall.