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We just had/ are having a bit a wind storm here in Oregon. The tree in this news story was damaged a while back, and this storm finally took the top off it.

News Story

Rich

Wow, it made it through over 700 years of storms. Global warming creating more violent storms than the previous 700 years? Or, maybe just a tree that has fought the good fight for its lifetime, and was already at the end of its lifetime.

Hope some of the wood finds its way into luthier hands.


There's a photo here that gives a good sense of how big the base of the tree was: When it was whole

Dennis

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There were old growth sikas in Alaska that made this one look tiny...
I believe that there was a picture circulating a few years back of a sitka in alaska that was astonishing. It was more like the size of a redwood.

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My brother and I were touring the West Coast and went to the Hoh Rain Forrest. They said that this was the largest Sitka anywhere. Is it the same tree do you think?


I've shown this before but its fun to dust off old photos and anyway I am curious as to whether it was this tree that broke.

John

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Looks like more of a LEAN than a push

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Hmmm,,,so this is what a vulture feels like.    When do we see this ol'girl on the dinner plate

Sad to see this majestic beauty come down, but out with the old and in with the new I guess. It will be our turn one day, bet they don't make too much that sounds any good from my carcase.

Cheers

Kim

WOw!!!

I am sad it came down. Let's hope there wasn't too much rot/disease in the tree that contributed to the fall, the weather being the final straw.. W

Actually I don't think it was the largest.

"Lake Quinault is the “Valley of the Rain Forest Giants©” and the Big Spruce Tree at the Resort is one of them. The tree is the World’s Largest Spruce with a circumference of 58 feet, 11 inches, diameter of 18 feet, 9 inches and 191 feet tall for a total of 922 AFA points. A very large tree near Seaside, Oregon claims to be the United States largest spruce tree, it has 902 AFA points. The American Forestry Association declared them close enough to be CO-champions. But a little bigger is still bigger, sorry Seaside."

Certainly doesn't come close to the size of the biggest Sequoias that are about twice the diameter at the base of the trees, but it was certainly a very very big Sitka.

There are some pretty big trees in Oregon,Washington and California.

"Currently the largest known Douglas fir tree in existence is the Doerner Fir (previously known as the Brummit fir). It was discovered in 1991, and is located west of Roseburg, Oregon. It is 329 feet in height and 36 feet 6 inches in circumference (approximately 11 1/2 feet in diameter)."

I think The largest Western Red Cedar is on the olympic Peninsula in Washington.

Port Orford Cedars are pretty good size trees also, but the largest of the giants were taken in the early 1900's.