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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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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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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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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

October 1, 2018 Harley Rustad with Big Lonely Doug AR. Photo Art Gallery of Ontario. All alone in what was once an old-growth forest stands Big Lonely Doug, the second-largest Douglas fir tree in Canada. The tree is about 1,000 years old and 66 metres high - taller than Niagara Falls.


Big Lonely Doug among largest oldgrowth trees now on protection list

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.


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Big Lonely Doug, one of Canada's tallest tree. Photograph: TJ Watt / House of Anansi The tree dominated the forest - a monarch of its species. Its crown of dark green, glossy needles.


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By: Taryn Eyton Last updated: June 8, 2022 The southern end of Vancouver Island in British Columbia has the perfect climate for growing trees: It gets plenty of rain and the climate is fairly mild (for Canada!).


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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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Conservationists believe that Big Lonely Doug is a little over 1,000 years old, having begun to grow around the year 1000. It is over 230 feet tall, which makes it the second-largest Douglas Fir in Canada, about 12 feet behind the Red Creek Fir located just a few miles away.


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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.


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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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Last modified on Thu 11 Jan 2024 04.58 EST. Two types of tree and a palm that live underground are among the new plant species named in 2023 and highlighted by scientists at the Royal Botanical.


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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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