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It does have the largest trees in the world outside of the state of California and New Zealand. [1] Located on the western side of the Olympic Mountains, the Quinault Valley was carved out by a glacier and ends at Lake Quinault. Quinault Rain Forest is a tourist area with a number of resorts and lodges located on either side of Lake Quinault.
At Quinault, Washington, is found a collection of the largest Douglas-firs in one area. Quinault Rain Forest hosts most of the top ten known largest Douglas-firs. As of 2009, the largest known Douglas-firs in the world are, by volume: [11] Red Creek Tree (Red Creek, SW British Columbia) 12,320 cubic feet (349 m 3)
The Queets Spruce is the largest in the world with a trunk volume of 346 m 3 (12,200 cu ft), a height of 74.6 m (244 ft 9 in), and a 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) dbh. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It is located near the Queets River in Olympic National Park , about 26 km (16 mi) from the Pacific Ocean.
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The headquarters of the new unit were in Downtown Portland, which was "the centre of the great spruce area of the Pacific Northwest," [2] while the division's induction, training, and operations center was established at Vancouver Barracks across the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, [3] [6] [7] where it employed about 19,000 soldiers.
As stated in the foundation document: [12] The purpose of Olympic National Park is to preserve for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the people, a large wilderness park containing the finest sample of primeval forest of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas fir, and western red cedar in the entire United States; to provide suitable winter range and permanent protection for the herds of ...
The tree is located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] It is currently the largest known Western redcedar in the world, [2] (compare to the Cheewhat Giant on Canada's Vancouver Island. [3] After the death in 2016 of the Quinault Big Cedar, the Duncan Cedar became the largest known Western redcedar in the United States ...
The Lake Quinault Douglas fir is an unnamed superlative Douglas fir on Lake Quinault in Olympic National Forest, Washington State. It was designated the champion of its species and the largest known Douglas fir in the United States by American Forests in 2018. The tree is 581 inches (14,800 mm) in circumference, 293.67 feet (89.51 m) tall, and ...