Tallest Tree - Douglas Fir 400 feet tall to 412 feet tall.avi

The tallest Douglas firs on record. 400 to 412 feet tall:

400 "In the typical fir forests, the trees, crowded close together, become very tall, two hundred fifty to four hundred feet high, and sometimes eight to twelve feet in diameter." The Pacific Monthly by William Bittle Wells -- 1903 pg. 345

400 "The maximum height known is nearly 400 feet; the greatest diameter of the stem is 14 feet. Can be grown very closely, when the stems will attain, according to Drs. Kellogg and Newberry, a height of over 200 feet without a branch." - Select Extra-Tropical Plants Readily Eligable For Industrial Culture Or Naturalization, With Indications Of Their Native Countries And Some Of Their Uses. - Baron Ferd. Von Mueller, 1884 pg. 268

400 "From the Cascade range to the Pacific, compromising about one-half of Washington Territory, the surface is densely covered with the finest forest growth in the world. Some of the trees, straight as an arrow, are four hundred feet in height, and fourteen feet in diameter near the ground." -- Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary... By John Ross Browne 1869, pg 574

400 "Here, too, it reaches its greatest dimensions, it being claimed that about the base of Mt. Rainier there are trees [Douglas Fir] over 400 feet in height." The American Naturalist 1899 by American Society of Naturalists, pg. 391

400 "In its native habitats, the Douglas fir varies considerably in dimensions. In the forests of Washington State it often reaches a height of 250 feet, with a girth of 36 feet. There, trees so high as 300 feet have been seen. These trees are therefore more than twice the height of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and would even over-shadow the Boston stump. Trees even much loftier than this have been seen, some of them almost reaching the height of the Spire of Salisbury Cathedral which is a little over 400 feet. Specimens have been known to be more than 750 years old." Trees in Britain, By Lionel John Farnham Brimble, Macmillan, 1946 -- pg 98.

400 "These forest giants are only surpassed in size by the California red-wood trees, of which we have heard so much. Some of them grow four hundred feet high and fifteen feet through, single trees yielding eighty thousand feet of sawed lumber." - Our native land By George Titus Ferris, 1882, pg. 130.

400 Fir tree 400 feet tall. - Chronicle Telegram, Feb. 14, 1921 pg. 2.

400 c. 1908, "Robert E. Lee" tallest tree of Ravenna Park, Seattle, Wa.

400+ As it lay. Puget Sound, 1876 correspondence from Mr. Sproat to Robert Brown, Book: The countries of the world.

400 Kerrisdale District, S Vancouver, BC. Felled in 1896. Julius Martin Fromme superintendent of Hastings Mill, says it was the largest Fir ever received by the Mill at almost 400 ft long. Bark up to 16" thick. 13' 8" butt diam.

400 Allegedly logged by MacMillan Export Company, Copper Canyon, Vancouver Island, BC. date unknown.

400 1893, a "Red fir" in Chehalis County, Wa. 400 feet high, and nearly 54 feet in circumference 6 feet from the ground. -- Gettysburg Compiler, Mar. 4, 1893. pg. 4.

400+ 1909, a Giant fir tree over 400 feet tall East of Seattle, Wa. Located on western slope of Cascade Mountains, 17.8 ft diam, 18 inches above ground. - The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Nov. 29, 1909 pg. 10. & "Coast and Mountain News." Western Lumberman, Jan. 1910. pg. 16.

412 Felled near Tacoma, Wa. and measured 412 feet in length "Which Is the Biggest of Them All?" MacMillan Bloedel News, Vancouver, B.C., Nov. 1970, pg. 6.

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[Tlducken]

@rephaim23 - At the 3:05 mark in the video there is a drawing of a wagon going through the forest, where did you find it? I really like it!

[rephaim23]

@Tlducken

Thanks. It is An 1885 engraving of a primaeval rainforest with gigantic Douglas firs and mammoth red cedar trees, Fraser River Valley, Vancouver, British Columbia. Today exterminated. I don't know the name of the artist. I found the picture at:

cathedralgrove(dot)eu/gallerie­s/WaldAktion_BC/index(dot)htm

[rephaim23]

@554687858

Sure thing.

[554687858]

@rephaim23 When you find it, call me first.

[rephaim23]

@554687858

Thanks. Lots of unexplored terrain in Oregon, Washington and California maybe the magical 400 foot tree is awaiting my arrival, so I can hug it -- Then chop it down and measure its prostrate corpse with my steel tape, (I'm afraid of heights), and make a small fortune off the wood. I hope Manny isn't listening...

[554687858]

@rephaim23 Well, your site, you make the calls, if you want Manny off, so be it. You too, take care. (you never know, there might be a 400 footer out there right now, staring down at us)

[rephaim23]

@554687858

Sorry I misspelled that, I'm tired. I meant to say, Manny took it to whole "new" levels by saying stuff like "kill yourself" and other indecent words. Anyways. Take care.

[rephaim23]

@554687858

Yeah no problem. We can all be jackasses sometimes, and I'm guilty as anyone. But many took it to whole knew levels. Also I have to admit with my research I could be dead wrong, Manny doesn't seem to make any allowance for that, and if you disagree he goes ape shit on you.

[554687858]

@rephaim23 Dude, thanks, but I'm not that sensitive. If Manny wants to rant let him. However, I appreciate your civility. Manny (and perhaps I) could learn from your example. Be cool.

[rephaim23]

@554687858

I would like to apologize for the comments a certain "MannySteinerBIeeky" has made towards you. I have removed them and I will block him from commenting on my videos.