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The Red Creek Fir is a large Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) tree located in the San Juan Valley of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. By volume, it is the largest known Douglas fir tree on Earth.
The Queets Fir is a superlative Douglas fir about 2.5 miles from the Queets River Trail trailhead, [1] [2] on Coal Creek, a tributary of Queets River in the Olympic National Park in Washington State. It was known for fifty years, beginning in 1945, as the largest known fir by volume, and is still largest known in diameter. [ 3 ]
One of the oldest Douglas fir on record at 1,020 years in age [38] [25] [39] [40] Eureka Tree Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 115.824 380.00 United States Eureka, California Note: Standing height surveyed, and tree then cut down in 1914 and measured by lumbermen. [41] [42] Nisqually Tree Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) 115.824 380.00
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).
Anecdotal reports do exist of other Douglas fir and mountain ash trees reaching 400 to 500 feet (122 to 152 m), such as the 435 ft (133 m) "Ferguson Tree," a Eucalyptus regnans of the Watt's river, Australia in 1872, or the 415 ft (126 m) Lynn Valley Tree, a Douglas fir felled in 1902. They are often dismissed as unreliable; however, some are ...
The giant sequoia is considered the largest known living tree on the planet and also one of the tallest, widest and longest-lived (estimated at 2,000+ years old). It is more than 100 feet around ...
Douglas-fir is one of the world's best timber-producing species and yields more timber than any other species in North America, making the forestlands of western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia the most productive on the continent. In 2011, Douglas-fir represented 34.2% of US lumber exports, to a total of 1.053 billion board-feet.
The Yerkes Observatory glass tree is (probably) the tallest in the world The first Yerkes Observatory glass tree event took place in 2022. By that point, Mack had done his research on tall trees ...