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Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to just over 100 meters (330 ft) tall, [2] with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft).
The San Juan Spruce is a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) tree located in the San Juan Valley of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Until July 2016 it was the second largest known Sitka spruce tree by volume, [ 2 ] surpassed only by the Queets Spruce in Washington , United States .
It was previously home to the largest tree in the state, a Sitka spruce. [2] In the tree's prime it was the largest Sitka Spruce in the United States. It was also the largest tree in Oregon and one of the oldest living things in the state. On December 7, 2007, there was a storm that snapped the tree about 80 feet above ground.
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Headwaters Forest Reserve. The reserve was established in 1999 (H.R. 2107, Title V. Sec.501. [2]) The reserve was created after a 15-year effort to save the ancient ecosystem (with some trees estimated at over two thousand years old), from being clearcut.
The Spruce Production Division was a unit of the United States Army established in 1917 to produce high-quality Sitka spruce timber and other wood products needed to make aircraft for the United States' efforts in World War I. The division was part of the Army Signal Corps's Aviation Section.
Large sitka spruce tree at Harris Creek on Vancouver Island. Closeup of the Harris Creek Sitka Spruce. The Harris Creek Sitka Spruce is a large Sitka spruce tree, about 4 metres (13 ft) in diameter, [1] near the creek bed of Harris Creek, off the Pacific Marine Road between Port Renfrew, BC and Honeymoon Bay, BC on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia.
The seed cones closely resemble those of the Sitka spruce but are smaller and with the rounded tops of white spruce cones. [ 6 ] Between 1987 and 2000 the largest known epidemic of spruce bark beetle ( Dendroctonus rufipennis ) caused the death of 90% of white, Sitka, and hybrid Lutz spruce, almost all of the mature spruce trees, in a 3.2 ...