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The sugar pine is the tallest and largest Pinus species, commonly growing to 40–60 meters (130–195 ft) tall, exceptionally to 82 m (269 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of 1.2–2.5 m (3 ft 11 in – 8 ft 2 in), exceptionally 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in). [2]
Associated trees include western hemlock, Sitka spruce, sugar pine, western white pine, ponderosa pine, grand fir, coast redwood, western redcedar, California incense-cedar, Lawson's cypress, tanoak, bigleaf maple and several others. Pure stands are also common, particularly north of the Umpqua River in Oregon. It is most dominant in areas with ...
The Doerner Fir, also known as the Brummitt Fir, is a former record-setting Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) in Oregon, is one of the tallest known trees in the world which is not a redwood (Sequoioideae), at 325.8 feet (99.3 m).
Coast Douglas-fir is the fourth tallest conifer and fifth tallest of all trees in the world (after sitka spruce).Currently, coast Douglas-fir trees 60–75 metres (197–246 ft) or more in height and 1.5–2 metres (4.9–6.6 ft) in diameter are common in old growth stands, [4] and maximum heights of 100–120 metres (330–390 ft) and diameters up to 4.5–5.5 metres (15–18 ft) have been ...
The Valley of the Giants is home to some of Oregon's largest and oldest trees in the Coast Range, located west of Falls City. The area was closed by a recent landslide. This picture was taken in 2013.
Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) 81.77 268.3 Phalanx: Conifer in Myers Creek drainage of Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon, United States Western North America [39] Entandrophragma excelsum: 81.5 267 Flowering plant at Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: Eastern Africa [40] Sydney blue gum (Eucalyptus saligna) 81.5 267 Flowering plant
Once the pine cones are collected, they're brought to a network of nurseries, where the seeds are extracted and grown into seedlings. One million seedlings will plant about 4,500 acres of new forest.
Coast Douglas-fir, Port Orford Cedar, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, Coast Douglas-fir, California Incense Cedar, White Fir, Red Fir, Mountain Hemlock: Oregon: Siuslaw National Forest [18] 33,800 acres (13,700 ha) (1993 estimate) [18] Central Pacific coastal forests: Oregon: Umatilla National Forest [18] 190,741 acres (77,190 ha) (1993 estimate ...