http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/maclura/pomifera.htm
This Forest Service article contains a map depicting Bois d'Arc's range in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
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>>> On 27 March, 2011 at 11:31 AM, in message <[log in to unmask]>, "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
This points up a terminological issue. Mock orange can be a shrub or it can also be Osage Orange in popular nomenclature and apparently region. The two are more than a little different. Let's hope the outcome of this discussion is a list with the popular name(s), the Linnaean classification and a regional map in which it is found, perhaps as a state outline map with the states where it grows shown.
Lyle Browning, RPA
On Mar 27, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Misty Jackson wrote:
> Or mock orange or lilac....
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> Misty Jackson, Ph.D., RPA
> Arbre Croche Cultural Resources
> 214 South Main Street
> Leslie, Michigan 49251
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> 517-525-3060
> On Mar 26, 2011, at 2:31 PM, ray ezell wrote:
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>> I've not seen anybody mention dog-hobble....
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>> From: Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Sat, March 26, 2011 1:45:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: Vegetation and Historic Sites
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>> I think the list is probably the best long-term item coming out of this
>> discussion. Perhaps when done, it might be posted to the NPS website or some
>> other "permanent" location for down load?
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>> Also, I don't know if anyone has mentioned them, but ailanthus altissima (Tree
>> of Heaven at one end; Ghetto Palm at the other of the naming spectrum) is a
>> common house indicator, although birds spread them to places where houses were
>> never located. There is also another fast growing, soft wood Chinese "weed wood"
>> with very large (20cm) multi-lobed leaves that I've never seen outside an urban
>> environment in VA.
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>> Also, while not exactly on point for house sites, intentionally introduced
>> invasives such as Johnson Grass for cattle fodder can help demarcate old fields,
>> Kudzu for same although that stuff will eventually cover the planet, and
>> multi-flora rose all date to the 20th century for introduction. Thinking ahead a
>> bit, bio-sampling will undoubtedly have bug parts so Japanese Beetles may be in
>> the sample, thus post-dating 1939 if memory serves.
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>> Finally, there's a website that has a rather extensive list of invasive plants
>> at: http://www.invasive.org/weedcd/
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>> Lyle Browning
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>> On Mar 26, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Brad Laffitte wrote:
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>>> Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming response and discussion.
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>>> The whole purpose of posing this question to the group revolves around what
>>> seems to be a lack of literature on the subject. We all seem to have
>>> experiences and knowledge with vegetation signatures and historic sites, but
>>> these connections seem to only be mentioned "in passing" in the literature for
>>> the southeastern U.S.
>>>
>>> I work as an archaeologist at Fort Polk in west-central Louisiana. We have
>>> noticed over the years that many historic sites (as indicated from historic
>>> aerials and other documentation) were missed during previous surveys. I am
>>> currently writing an article discussing the reasons behind these sites being
>>> "overlooked", which will have a section specifically on vegetation that will
>>> largely be written by the installation botanist. He is very knowledgable on the
>>> subject, but I'm trying to help him find any previous work done for the area or
>>> comparable resources. We would like to, as was mentioned in one of the previous
>>> emails, develop a list of trees/shrubs/plants that almost certainly indicate a
>>> homestead (due to them having to be planted and/or not spreading heavily) as
>>> well as a list of those that are suspicious enough to justify surveyors briefly
>>> veering from their transects to further investigate. This will help ensure that
>>> future surveyors
>>> can be briefed beforehand with respect to types of vegetation to "be on the
>>> lookout for".
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Brad Laffitte
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