Largest White Pine Ever Cut in Wisconsin?

[max2cam]

I found this little article while reading an 1875 issue of the Ashland (Wis.) Press. At that time they claimed it was the LARGEST pine tree ever cut in the "northwestern pineries," meaning the Great Lake states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.

Here is the complete article:

"Mr. H. McKusick says that Abe Johnson, on the Totogatic, has cut a pine tree out of which he obtained four 18-foot logs, the smallest one of the four measure 40 inches at the top end. The four logs scaled 7,300 feet, and it is supposed to be the largest tree ever cut in the norhtwestern pineries." -- From the Stillwater Lumberman

Has this record size tree ever been exceeded in the Great Lakes states?

Other sources say that the biggest pine in the St. Croix basin grew on upper Totogatic River in NW Wisconsin. At the Stillwater boom "togatigs" was lumberjack lingo for HUGE logs that demanded higher than average prices, which Totogatic River pine often got. But the tree above must have TOWERED above even the best pine and far older in age. County forester says today that area is mostly hardwoods and the conditions that grew such a pine stand up there must have been exceptional and rare.

Any other historic accounts of very large white pine (and red) in the region?

[ray benson]

http://books.google.com/books?id=nQ_...scaled&f=false

[ray benson]

http://www.nativetreesociety.org/big...tern_trees.htm

Wisconsin
GREAT TREES OF THE PAST
MacArthur Pine. Eastern white pine. National champion, 1948-1971. Named by a Milwaukee newspaper in 1945 in honor of General Douglas MacArthur. CBH 17’ 8”, ht. 148’. Weight 27 tons. 35 feet of trunk hollow. Nicolet National Forest, near Newald. 40 feet of top blown out in 1977. Struck by lightning in 1986. Felled by a suspicious fire on 6/23/2001.
ref.: The Capital, newspaper, Annapolis, Md. 7/12/2001.
ref.: Randall, Charles Edgar and Henry Clepper 1976. Famous and Historic Trees. The American Forestry Association, p. 22.

Eastern white pine. A white pine felled near the Flambeau River, in northwest Wisconsin yielded 14 logs that scaled 22,620 board feet.
ref.: Stevens Point Journal, 2/26/1898. (courtesy of Paul Jost, 2/16/2004).

Eastern white pine. A white pine near the Plover River, in the Hatley area of Marathon County, was reported to have a circumference of 19’ 6”, and a height of nearly 200 feet.
ref.: S. A. Sherman, pioneer lumberman, 1884. (courtesy of Paul Yost, 2/16/2004)

Eastern white pine. A white pine to be cut on the land of Mr. Wadleigh, near Hatley, Marathon County, was said to be the largest in Wisconsin. It was 27 feet in circumference.
ref.: Stevens Point Journal, 12/1/1883. (courtesy of Paul Yost, 2/16/2004)

[John Paul Sanborn]

MacArthur. CBH 17’ 8”, ht. 148’.

DBH= 5.65 ft

circumference of 19’ 6”, and a height of nearly 200 feet.

DBH= 6.21 ft

It was 27 feet in circumference.

DBH = 8.59 ft

[spudzone]

Impressive indeed! Those would make our northern Wi whoppers look pretty small. I continue to wonder just how big the pines were that left the scattered charred "skeleton" stumps we still see today.
Chris

[056 kid]

I have been around some 4'+ stuff in Natural bridge VA.

Soo much fun to cut!

[johninky]

There is an impressive white pine in the Pioneer Cemetery in Warren, Ohio. Largest one I have ever seen.