I may go big tree hunting soon...maybe I'll see if my city has a tree registry, it should because it claims to be it is the city of trees. I might like to begin mapping big trees. That would be fun to do, and might keep people from being abl eto cut them down for money purposes. I think the planet and our oxygen supply is more important than a view of the water. I did a search, Go figure, the City of Trees has no tree registry.
This is a Thuja Plicata, aka Western Red Cedar. It lives in the Olympic National Park. I found it in the records of the National Register of Big trees. This tree is 63.41 feet in circumference, well was in 1945 when it was last measured..lol.
"Ecosystem Services:
It would cost $634.85 to replace the storm water control service provided by this tree, based on the engineering standards used in the building industry. The same tree removes 3.59 lbs. of nitrogen, sulfur, ozone and particulate matter every year."
The large Sequoia on that site gives these stats..
"Ecosystem Services:
It would cost $3589.32 to replace the storm water control service provided by this tree, based on the engineering standards used in the building industry. The same tree removes 20.32 lbs. of nitrogen, sulfur, ozone and particulate matter every year."
Neighbors just took out a 40 year old weeping willow, to enhance the view from the McMansion they built next door. It caused the water table to rise and my house flooded. The tree was the largest willow I have ever seen. I imagine it was about 17 feet around. It provided a wall of greenery that gave privacy from the hillside and was so beautiful. Next these new neighbors,( not yet moved in), asked if we wanted our large cedars cut down. Really! Anyway, now we have a big (ugly) house next door and we have to plant some plicata's or daodara's or giant green thuja's to get our privacy back. The tree incidentally wasn't on their lot, but I imagine they asked to have taken out for their views sake.
Steam rising here! :)
I think a view is becoming over rated here, Afterall, the beach is a 3 block walk away.
I wish I had thought to get this tree registered, maybe it would still be standing. Trees grow faster here than any place on earth. A Plicata grows 6 ft a year.
Any big trees near you? Save the big trees!
More Big Trees ( found on the internet) In British Columbia old trees are aged up to 2000 years. This one with my daughter and Jeremy was taken at Stanley Park recently.
More big trees...
At least 3 if not 4 of these are in Washington.
Trees of Washington's Olympic peninsula
"This land of breathtaking mountains and rich, green forests, is a paradise to lovers of big trees. For giant trees, the Olympic Peninsula is equaled by few and surpassed by no areas. Only parts of nearby Vancouver Island, as well as Oregon, California and Australia, still have trees over 300 ft tall. To most earthlings a "tall" tree is 75 to 100 ft. Thousands of Douglas firs on the Peninsula don't even branch that near to the ground! Sitka spruces and red cedars stand whose trunks are 20 ft through! The very bark on ancient firs can exceed a foot in thickness.
About a hundred years ago, pioneers logged the raw, dripping forests, seeking extra-large trees even as we do now. But the motives have altered dramatically. Early loggers took pride in felling the mightiest specimens; we, their descendants, enshrine our record-size trees, admiring with joy the inspiring sight of nature's ultimate growth. Excess fascinates us, whether it be wealth, celebrity, athletic achievement or size.
So, naturally, we wonder: where are the largest trees? Olympic National Park employees receive so many requests for big tree information that a list of the record trees within the park is kept on file. The State has an ambitious big tree program sponsored by the U.W. Al Carder, a retired professor of plant science who lives north of Victoria has spent years writing a global account of big trees. It is long overdue, therefore, to give credit and recognition to the Peninsula's outstanding trees -- for this is truly the land of the giants..... Presently, the tallest tree known in the whole Northwest is a 326 ft fir in the Queets Valley. Well-documented examples around 400 ft once stood, though this is hard for most people to believe. The thickest trunks of firs presently are 44 1⁄2 ft around, which is a mere shadow of the bygone giants' girths and is easily surpassed by numerous spruces and cedars."