World's Largest Douglas-fir Tree - The Red Creek Fir!

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The largest Douglas fir on Earth is the Red Creek Fir on Vancouver Island. The tree and a small surrounding stand of trees currently receive "soft" protection through an Old-Growth Management Area, but legislated "hard" protection is needed in the form of a conservancy, park, or ecological reserve that also encompasses a much larger buffer area.

More importantly, BC needs to implement a provincial old-growth strategy to end logging of our endangered old-growth forests and to ensure value-added, second-growth forestry instead.

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[RedwoodExplorer]

While you are at it, could you mention what is on the side of the trunk that looks like a vine? Root? Old limb?

I've seen poison oak with near 4 inch trunks, go up redwoods like that too. Anyway, was curious since its there in the video.

[BCAncientForest]

@RedwoodExplorer Good question!! It's actually the snake-like root of a Hemlock tree that tried to grow on the side of the fir. At some point it broke or died and now just the root is left reaching for the ground!

[BCAncientForest]

@Archin04 It's believed to be over 1000 years old.

[rephaim23]

The diameter of the trunk at 239 feet is still about 3 feet thick, so this tree was probably once about 320 feet tall before it lost its top.

Generally for ever foot of diameter, an old fir can expect between 20 to over 30 vertical feet of top.

[rephaim23]

A glimmer of hope has recently surfaced in southern Oregon with the discovery of a grove of 300 to 325 foot Dougli in a cozy valley west of Roseberg, just 2 weeks ago.

Heck, that's about as tall as the original estimated height of the Red Creek fir. I think the Red Creek tree is about 3 ft thick at the 240 foot top, indicating it "might" have been somewhere between 300 and 325 feet originally. About the size of the Koksilah giant.

[rephaim23]

99% of Old Growth Douglas fir gone. And I'm beginning to wonder if it's even a full percent that exist on that Island.

If I were to report the height, girth, and age of some of the giants recorded by lumbermen, and even Foresters, many modern tree researchers simply would not believe me. As Dr. Carder has said, our sense of scale has greatly diminished.

But basically, from BC down through Washington, and Oregon it used to look like the Redwoods-- on steroids.

[OutSideDeMatrix]

Absolutely important!!

Thanks for the video.

Come on people - step up!

Sign the petition and support efforts & organizations like these!

[SaniyaCanada]

Awe-some. Literally.

[2011jharris]

Thanks for sharing. Signed the petition and forwarded.