As in "old" Growth
The Ohanapecosh River, pure of glacier sediment
Old Growth trees at Mt Rainier
A nurse log has done a good job here...
An uprooted tree showing it's large base, this is huge:
A nurse log provides life giving nutrients for seedlings
and these aren't nearly the largest...see Nurse logs that have fallen, huge trees that others grow from, some of these have large trees growing out of them..