Welcome to the Maryland Big Tree Program

BT-1337 White Oak - Bicentennial Tree  in Cecil County 

Penn's Woods Tree                           Publicly Accessible

Maryland Big Tree Program Committee Members

John Bennett, Chair

Joli McCathran, Vice-Chair

Anne Gilbert, DNR Liaison

Dawn Balinski, Treasurer

Jim Bardsley

Linda Barker

Doug Inkley

Kathie Jarmon

Dori Murphy

Jim Sherring

Fred Besley, Maryland's first forester, developed the formula used today to meaure trees:

Circumference in inches +
Height in feet +
¼ of the average crown spread =
TOTAL POINTS

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