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Big tree thread

The first year I worked for BLM we ran into a spot that was mostly White Fir 2 to 3 ft. diameter but about every 150 ft. or so there would be a Dougals Fir 6 to 10 ft. in diameter. We ran into a BLM forester one day and commented on those beautiful big trees. He just said, "They're going to be beautiful big stumps when we're done."

Made me kinda sad.
 
Fisheye lense skews it a bit, but this Doug was 76" dbh.
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In a forest of old growth, it was a notch larger than the typical 60 inchers.
What I love the most about this tree and this area is that it's true rain forest old growth in an area that isn't a park, isn't protected, isn't advertised or promoted, no one posts this place on the 'gram and newsletters aren't going out to raise money to "save" it. It just is. And in doing so, is incredibly devoid of people allowing a person with very little sweat equity to experience a time and a place and an ecosystem that is effectively unchanged since ole Columbus himself set foot in the Caribbean. The water is cold, ice cold, the trees are green and lust and growing like crazy even at 200' tall...

I bash on western WA as much as anyone, but my gosh is it hard to beat on a beautiful summer day.
 
This was the largest western larch or Tamerack on record until about 80 feet blew out of the top. Still pretty impressive. It’s harder to find now with the top gone, still a faint trail from the highway to the tree but folks don’t stop much any more. Catherine found the tree 35 years ago, we stop once a year.
 

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This was the largest western larch or Tamerack on record until about 80 feet blew out of the top. Still pretty impressive. It’s harder to find now with the top gone, still a faint trail from the highway to the tree but folks don’t stop much any more. Catherine found the tree 35 years ago, we stop once a year.
That's a real dandy. My favorite tree, or at least one of them.
 
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