#Castle ( #ruin ) Auerbach

The Tree, a blue #Douglasfir, grew out of the pathway on the walls.

My #PhotoArt tribute to #BigLonelyDoug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world.

Learn more about this lonely #OldGrowth tree:
"It has the third highest tree score and third widest diameter of any known Douglas-fir in Canada, following the Red Creek Fir in the nearby San Juan Valley and the Bonin Giant in the Coquitlam River watershed in British Columbia's Lower Mainland"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Dididaht #TreeLovers #fir #EarthNeedsGuardians #nature #CarbonSink #Climate #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CapitalismKillsEverything #Environmentalist #PhotoEdit #VisualArt #ThickTrunkTuesday

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#photography #douglasFir

Earth's tallest trees were #DouglasFir trees.

#Lidar is helping find remnants of that forest.

#Forest #Trees #LandUse

https://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregon-field-guide/article/oregon-tallest-tree-champion-douglas-fir-brummit-doerner/

An old giant in Cathedral Grove, Vancouver Island. It was rainy in the rainforest the day I visited, surprise! This Douglas Fir is over 800 years old, and 76 m tall.

#temperaterainforest #douglasfir #gianttrees #forest #vancouverisland #trees

In the distance, the 100-year forest. In the foreground, what’s left when a strip of that forest is felled, yarded, hauled, and most of what’s left is heaped into 4-metre high piles. All of that happened less than 12 months ago. In the next season the forest’s renewal will become evident. In the meantime, there’s a scar. And my memories of stillness, deer, bear, and big Douglas Firs.

#Pnw #vancouverisland #bxw #photography #foto #forest #nature #summer #fall #autumn #trees #forestry #logging #douglasfir #worthmorestanding #secondgrowth

A sunlit path through the 100-year forest.
The North Georgia Plain was once a “loggers paradise.“ Large swaths of even-aged Douglas Fir stood where a large wildfire had raged in the 1600s. By 1940, the larger portion of this “paradise” was felled, yarded, boomed, and towed to mills on the Fraser River. Cleared of stumps and slash that paradise made way for farms. Wherever the forest returned, it was being cut a second time once it reached 50+ years. Only in small corners, or in strips along creeks or at the edge of farm fields, and the rare park, is the 100-year forest becoming itself.
These trees lie in one of those farm strips. A small salmon-bearing creek runs through it. A local elementary school created this trail. In the later fall, when the summer drought is washed away by the rains, teachers bring their classes here. They might learn how the forest and the salmon nourish each other.

#vancouverisland #bxw #photography #foto #forest #nature #salmon #douglasfir

World’s Tallest #DouglasFir Loses Height After #FireDamage

https://www.insidehook.com/travel/douglas-fir-doerner-oregon-tree-fire