Matt just sent me this picture of a 1932 Aspen BT from his i-phone.
Not the oldest we have found on this project (by a long shot), but one of the rare "blazed" Aspens that had GOOD scribing visible.
Loyal
O how I love to find original scribing!
SYP (Southern Yellow Pine) around here.
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Tell Matt, great find!
And here I thought I was going to see a photo of a bark-scribed aspen with distorted numbers/letters.
Nice Loyal!!
Aspen, wow, they aren't the longest lived trees around here, kinda like cottonwoods, grow fast die young, that one looks very healthy.
Here's a link (I think) to a post in 2014 where I posted some Pictures of a couple of "bark scribed" 100 year old Aspen BTs in the same area.
https://surveyorconnect.com/threads/100-year-old-aspen-bearing-trees.290681/#post-290727
Loyal