Big Lonely Doug among largest oldgrowth trees now on protection list


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Apr 24 2014 B.C.'s 'Big Lonely Doug' is the second-largest tree in Canada News Coverage PORT RENFREW — As trees go, it is one colossal conifer. Tape measures confirm that a Douglas fir tree on Vancouver Island is officially the second-largest in Canada.


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Big Lonely Doug—Tree, Unlikely Survivor, and Conservation Icon He stands in Vancouver Island's magnificent old-growth rainforest By Gina DeCaprio Vercesi September 4, 2020 After surviving a clearcutting in 2011, Canada's second-tallest Douglas fir helped reignite old-growth-forest conservation. | Photo by T.J. Watt


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The Walrus Magazine has a feature about Big Lonely Doug, Canada's 2nd largest Douglas-fir tree, the forestry worker Dennis Cronin who decided to leave him standing, and the battle for old-growth forests on Vancouver Island! Photos by the Ancient Forest Alliance's TJ Watt! On a sunny morning in the winter of 2011, Dennis Cronin parked his truck.


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Possibly the best is Avatar Grove, a 50-hectare section of old growth forest with lush, atmospheric hiking and "Canada's Gnarliest Tree". Not far from there you can also visit Big Lonely Doug, the second-tallest Douglas fir remaining on the island (at a stunning 70 metres!). Throw in some terrific beaches, good surfing and the mysterious.


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Big Lonely Doug among largest oldgrowth trees now on protection list

Big Lonely Doug—named after its species, the Douglas fir—stands tall among a clearing, a solitary specimen surrounded by stumps and logging debris. It soars about 230 feet high and its trunk is.


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This giant tree, about eighteen stories tall, is estimated to be somewhere around 1000 years old. At 70 meters tall and almost 12 meters round at the base, Big Lonely Doug is the second-tallest Douglas Fir in Canada.


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April 5, 2022 Julia Dinmore Cover Photo: timfilbert via Flickr; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Where once there stood a family of towering, mighty trees, one solitary giant pierces the sky, surrounded by land, cut clean.


This huge Douglas Fir tree is on southern Vancouver Island in Canada

Coordinates: 48.64626°N 124.45063°W Big Lonely Doug is a large Coast Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii) tree located in the Gordon River Valley of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is the second largest Douglas-fir tree in Canada after the Red Creek Fir in nearby San Juan Valley. [1] History


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Big Lonely Doug is a Douglas-fir on the southern end of Vancouver Island in Canada. According to the B.C. Big Tree Registry that is run by the University of British Columbia, the tree is 230 feet tall (70.2 metres) - this makes Lonely Doug about the height of an 21 story building.


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Big Lonely Doug How a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see British Columbia's old-growth forests by Harley Rustad Photography by TJ Watt Updated 9:44, Jun. 30, 2022 | Published 9:28, Sep. 19, 2016 This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.


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Big Lonely Doug. Big Lonely Doug is a gargantuan, old-growth Douglas-fir tree standing alone in a recent logging clearcut near Port Renfrew. Lonely Doug is a tree with a trunk as wide as a living room and stands taller than a downtown skyscraper. Doug's total size comes in just behind the current champion Douglas-fir, the Red Creek Fir, the.


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Climbing the ancient and colossal Douglas Fir tree better known as 'Big Lonely Doug', located in near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Canada.We teamed up wit.


Big Lonely Doug among largest oldgrowth trees now on protection list

Avatar Grove. Lonely Doug, with its immense height and majestic stature, stands as a living testament to the resilience of nature. This Douglas fir tree, the second tallest of its kind in all of Canada, reaches a staggering height of approximately 66 meters, almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty! Mind blowing stats: - 66 Metres Tall (216 feet)


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Big Lonely Doug, discovered in early 2014 by Ancient Forest Alliance campaigners to be the 2nd largest Douglas-fir tree in Canada, was once a part of the endangered Lower Edinburgh Grove (aka. "Christy Clark Grove") until the surrounding ancient trees were levelled in 2012.


Vancouver Island Big Trees Canada's 2nd Biggest Douglasfir Tree

Big Lonely Doug, perhaps the loneliest tree in Canada, stands in the middle of a clear-cut on the west coast of Vancouver Island, surrounded by a field of huge stumps. The giant red cedars and.