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Britain’s Oldest Trees are Becoming Endangered Species : TreeHugger

“The Ancient Tree Hunt is a five-year project led by the Woodland Trust, which is recording every ancient tree in Britain. Of special interest to readers of this blog is the informal measurement used. It’s called “hugs”. “A hug is based on the finger tip to finger tip measurement of an adult, which is about 1.5m. This distance is usually almost the same as your height, and means you can measure a tree even if you forget your tape measure! The trees might be ancient if they measured the following:

Oak - 3 adult hugs

Beech - 2 adult hugs

Scots Pine- 1 adult hug

Rowan - one adult hug

Birch - a wrist hugmeasure”