Wisconsin's
Champion Trees
A Tree Hunter's Guide
Second Edition
R. Bruce Allison
Photographs by B-Wolfgang Hoffmann
Foreword by Dick Rideout
A champion tree is the largest recorded tree of its species.
Champion trees have been officially recorded in Wisconsin since
1941. This book contains the location and measurements of 153
species of Wisconsin champion trees. It is published as a guide
and a challenge to all Wisconsin big-tree hunters to find and
nominate new record trees.
Trees are dynamic, growing and dying, within
an ever changing environment. New trees have replaced many fallen
champions. Although R. Bruce Allison and his associates have
worked hard to revise old records, there are many grand trees
still to be found.
R. Bruce Allison has been a professional arborist in Madison, Wisconsin, since
1974. His education includes a degree in writing from Brown University
and a Master of Science in Forestry and Doctorate in Land Resources
from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He served as president
of the Wisconsin Arborist Association and chairman of both the
Dane County Tree Board and Wisconsin Urban Forestry Council.
He is the author of Every Root an Anchor:
Wisconsin's Famous and Historic Trees published by the
University of Wisconsin Press in 2005; Tree Walks of Dane
County (1981); and Tree Walks of Milwaukee County (1982).
His articles have appeared in the Wisconsin Academy Review,
Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine,
American Forests Magazine, Arborcultural Journal, and Shading
Our Cities (Island Press, 1989).
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March 2005
112 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
49 b/w photos
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