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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 center achieves its mission with three programs: the Discovery Museum, two donated working forests—the Magness Memorial Tree Farm and the Johnson-Swanson Tree Farm—and the World Forest Institute which was established in 1989. The primary program is the International Fellowship Program.
It has a land area of 628,443 acres (254,322 ha). There are local ranger district offices located in Ashland, Butte Falls, Grants Pass, Jacksonville, and Prospect. Gold Beach ranger station. The former Siskiyou portion of the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest is located in parts of four counties in southwestern Oregon and northwestern ...
A 1993 Forest Service study estimated the extent of old growth in the forest at 312,000 acres (1,260 km 2). [5] In descending order of land area, the forest is located in parts of Grant, Harney, Baker, and Malheur counties. [6] There are three ranger districts in the forest, with offices in John Day, Prairie City, and Hines.
U.S. Forest Service The Clackamas Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Mount Hood National Forest in the northwestern Cascades of Oregon , United States . Created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 , it consists of 9,470 acres (3,830 ha).
The Deschutes National Forest is a United States national forest (NF) located in Central Oregon, in parts of Deschutes, Klamath, Lake, and Jefferson counties. It was established in 1908, with border changes following in 1911 and 1915. The forest now encompasses almost 1.6 million acres (6,500 km 2) along the east side of the Cascade Range.
Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, United States Western North America [15] Yellow meranti (Richetia faguetiana) [note 1] 97.58 320.1 Menara: Flowering plant: Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia on Borneo island Southeast Asia [16] Believed to be tallest tree in Asia until 2023 discovery of 102.3 metres (336 ft) cypress in Tibet. [6]
The forest's dominant tree species is the Douglas-fir, the state tree of Oregon. Douglas-fir is a valuable timber species in the United States. The forest contains some stands of old-growth forest, some of which are over 300 feet (91 m) tall, among the tallest trees in the world, with tree diameters ranging from 3 to 8 feet (0.91 to 2.44 m). [10]