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Old 01-20-2011, 08:25 AM
 
Location: West Coast
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Looks like Oregon has a new world's tallest pine tree. Like 4 of them according to this announcement. Up to 268 feet tall.

Link New World's Tallest Pine Tree

Anyway, those are some pretty tall trees for pines. I'm mostly used to seeing the short stocky shore pines.

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Old 01-20-2011, 08:36 AM
 
Location: Beaverton
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woot!
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Old 01-20-2011, 09:34 AM
 
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From that link, I navigated to the article about a new Port Oford cedar height record found in northern California. The old record holder was a monster found about a mile (maybe two) up a trail of the main national forest road south of Powers. I mention this because the article implies it was still alive. I visited the tree in 1991 and havent seen it since. If it is still alive I am pleasantly surprised because it looked pretty sick then and these trees are very suscptible to a root rot. I thought it had died years ago....
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Old 01-20-2011, 10:46 AM
 
Location: Pluto's Home Town
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Yep, the Sierra Nevada trees, like many Californians, are happiest in Southwest Oregon! Ponderosa pine, sugar pine, incense cedar. I recalled doing some fieldwork in the South Umpqua drainage years ago, and seeing the tallest sugar pine. There was sign to it, and of course some crazy girdled it with a chainsaw.

I think it is great to know they are out there, but I say don't tell anyone where they are!! I have seen some wonderfully large sugar pine, Douglas fir, and ponderosa in the woods of Southwest Oregon. Just scatterd at random it seems, usually on midslope positions. Random survivors of past fires, no doubt.
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Old 01-20-2011, 10:48 AM
 
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Thanks for the link! I love places with big trees.
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Old 01-20-2011, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Bend, OR
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Wow, those are some tall Ponderosa Pines! When I moved to Bend I was pleasantly surprised at how tall the pines are here compared with Colorado. I worked for the Forest Service in Colorado and spent a lot of time measuring pines. If we had one that was 80 feet tall, that felt big! I'll have to go check these pines out. Thanks for the link!
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Old 01-20-2011, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Pluto's Home Town
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Big rivers and tall trees are the paybacks we get for our long, wet winters.
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Old 01-25-2011, 12:33 AM
 
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The Medford area Mail Tribune ran this story, but online there's a free subscription.

KGW out of Portland posted it too. This link might be more streamlined:

KGW News Claim - New World's Tallest Pine

I've read articles by Paul Fattig before, like the Blue Ledge Mine stuff near the OR / CA border. He does a pretty good piece.
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Old 08-04-2011, 08:28 AM
 
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New Largest Sitka Spruce possibly


Rather than post a spruce thread, figured this pine one was recent enough. Anyway, looks like Oregon may have another largest spruce tree.

story Seaside Signal Largest Spruce Oregon

At first the article looked like it was about a tallest tree. But the story unfolds about largest spruce trees. The discoverer the Seaside Signal mentions, has a bunch more photos of the spruce from his own tree news stuff.

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Old 08-04-2011, 09:09 AM
 
Location: the Beaver State
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Nice!

I just saw the largest Black Walnut in Oregon at Champoeg State Park this weekend. It actually rivals a few of these trees.
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