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Vancouver Island Big Trees: Wisdom Of The Trees
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. Wisdom Of The Trees. Visiting an increasingly rare 1000 year old Western Red Cedar along West Coast Road. Between Sooke and Port Renfrew. Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence. And though rooted in earth, they seem to touch the sky. Find out more about the tree shown above, and how to get to it, on my post about the Chin Beach trail cedar. Enjoy the big trees while they last. 8220;We need to prot...
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: Tree Art
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. Drawing by Robert Van Pelt. Robert Van Pelt's book Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast. Is one of my favorite big tree books. The author has a unique passion for trees, and a talent for not only finding record-breakers, but also carefully measuring and accurately rendering them. The Freedom Tree, photo source. Photo: Linda Hughes, Photons In The Forest. Leaning Tree and Hummingbird. This is the same tree, also in pen and ink. Up The Sooke River. Original work by Notnarayan.
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: The Giant Sequoias Of Beacon Hill Park
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. The Giant Sequoias Of Beacon Hill Park. Giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum. Possibly the largest tree species in the world, are to be found in several locations around Victoria, BC. These trees, native to California, were planted from imports brought to the region at the turn of the century. The tree shown above is in Beacon Hill Park. Other Giant sequoia in Beacon Hill Park stand near Park Way and on the north side of Goodacre Lake near the Stone Bridge. The Giant sequo...
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: War In The Walbran
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. War In The Walbran. Black bear in the Upper Walbran Valley stand to lose more old growth habitat if Teal Jones has its way. Photo: TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. For Immediate Release - June 8, 2015. Wilderness Committee Discovers Logging Maps for Walbran. War in the Woods could return as logging company targets Walbran Valley. Some of Canada's most ecologically significant old-growth cedar threatened by Teal Jones. Intact old-growth forests of this size are incredibly rare...
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: Quotes About Trees
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. Please enjoy these tree quotes. That I have compiled from a variety of sources. Do you have a favorite tree quote? Share it in the comments below. Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.". 8220;We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.”. 8211; Henry David Thoreau. If there i...
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: Arbutus - Canada's Only Native Broad-leafed Evergreen Tree
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. Arbutus - Canada's Only Native Broad-leafed Evergreen Tree. Argest circumference (7.8 meters) Arbutus. Dockyards CFB, Esquimalt. Arbutus are found as far south as Mexico, giving this tree one of the longest north-south ranges of any North American tree. It is Canada's only native broad-leafed evergreen tree, and usually resides not farther than 8 km from the pounding waves of the Pacific ocean. Arbutus in Roche Cove Regional Park, Sooke. Arbutus are also found in dry, open for...
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: World's Largest Yellow Cedars Are On Vancouver Island
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. World's Largest Yellow Cedars Are On Vancouver Island. St RandAlly, previous champion Yellow cedar. When it comes to the world's top six largest Yellow cedars, Vancouver Island is where it is at. Five of the top six are in British Columbia (the other is in the state of Washington). Of those five, at least three are on Vancouver Island. The tree was named after Randall Dayton and Ally Gibson, the forestry engineers that discovered the record breaker in 1993. It fell in 2004.
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: The Tallest Spruce Trees In The World: Carmanah/Walbran Provincial Park
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. The Tallest Spruce Trees In The World: Carmanah/Walbran Provincial Park. My first visit to Carmanah. Provincial Park was summer of 2006. It was a slow, rough drive into the heart of Vancouver Island's once-magnificent coastal forest. Our route took us from Sooke. Lake, and on to Nitinat. While bumping along Rosander. Main logging road past Nitinat. Knowing that in the mid-1980's the Carmanah. Found the oldest, largest Sitka. Spruce trees in Canada, and the world. In the 19...
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: Mapping The Giant Sequoias Of Victoria, BC
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. Mapping The Giant Sequoias Of Victoria, BC. This map is interactive - click on the tree icons and get more information about specific sequoias. View a larger version of the map here: " Giant Sequoias In Victoria. The same mild climate that grows the fattest, tallest native trees in Canada, also nurtures some amazing exotic trees on south Vancouver Island. A case in point are the Giant sequoias ( Sequoiadendron giganteum. The native range of the Giant sequoia is very restricted,.
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Vancouver Island Big Trees: Forest Creatures: Snakes
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Vancouver Island Big Trees. Of Vancouver Island's four species of snake, one is threatened and very rare. Snakes are a forest creature with an undeserved bad reputation. I thought of this when I came across a snake carcass along the Galloping Goose Trail as it passes through a mix of natural forested areas and urban development near Thetis Lake Park. The hinged jaw can be seen in this detail. The snakes of Vancouver Island, like all snakes, eat their prey whole. They have a jaw that can dislocate to ...
