UMSL students discover champion tree
Foresters with the Missouri Department of Conservation today confirmed that a shingle oak discovered by some University of Missouri-St. Louis students is the biggest of its kind in its state.
Now officially a Missouri State Champion Big Tree, the 114-foot-tall shingle oak was growing in the Daughters of Charity Cemetery in Normandy.
Students and faculty in the Campus Honors Environmental Research program found the tree and were the first to measure it.
To become a state champion big tree, foresters measure the trunk, height and crown spread and assign it points. The UMSL tree scored 272 points - the former biggest shingle oak in Missouri (which was located in Greene County) had 265 points.
By the way, the photo in the post is not the UMSL shingle oak. Technical difficulties - or perhaps user inability - prevented EcoSpeak from uploading.
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Kim McGuire joined the Post-Dispatch in August 2007. She has covered the environment for almost 10 years while working at The Denver Post and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In 2004, McGuire was named a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 
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