Dougfirtree
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I keep meaning to add this photo. It’s a Ceiba tree I saw in Puerto Rico this spring. Age was estimated around 370 years and for scale, that big buttressed root on the right is 12-14 feet tall!
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TheGrayRider
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Jungle, Lokomo area, Cameroon, Equatorial Africa, May 2024.
I loved finding the huge old growth monsters in the high country! Too many to list here , but I once found the largest lodgepole pine I had ever seen anywhere in the vicinity of Porphyry Peaks in Grand County,CO. Found some other massive fir and spruce trees in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, huge trees. Sadly, most of them in the northern part of Grand County were consumed in the E. Troublesome fire!
Carl 9.3x62
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Any idea what it is?
sccritterkiller
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The first year I worked for BLM We were surveying a property line when we came across an area of forest that was populated mostly in white fir running around 2-3 ft. DBH. Scattered throughout the stand every couple of hundred feet there were Douglas Firs running 6-9 ft. DBH. At the end of the day, we were hiking back to the truck when we ran into a forester who was laying out a timber sale. We mentioned that beautiful stand of giant old trees. His response was "that will be a bunch off giant old stumps when I'm done." That was kind of sad, but such was the nature of public land forest management back in the 80s.
BrentD
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Sounds like a guy I met back in about 1980 or so at The Brookings Institute. He was some sort of muckity-muck in the Army Corp who said he was about to retire because there were no more streams and rivers to straighten and channelize. He seemed rather depressed, and I don't know if that was because of what he had helped accomplish or the fact that there was nothing left to do. I as too young to have the courage to ask him straight out.
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Brute
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Maple tree by Lake Crescent, Washington.
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