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Seaside, Oregon: World's Largest Sitka Spruce Stump World's Largest Sitka Spruce Tree. A celebrated Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) on Klootchy Creek near Seaside, Oregon, receives so many visitors that recently a $50,000 boardwalk was constructed to preserve its roots from compaction. It is perhaps 700 years old, and truly amazing in stature.
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Something Wild: Hunting For NH's Big Trees New Hampshire hosts the largest black locust, mountain-ash, pitch pine, eastern white pine, black spruce, staghorn sumac and black birch in the entire US. They’re among 760 champion trees documented by The NH Big Tree Program. Listen.
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Picea abies Norway spruce is a large, fast-growing evergreen coniferous tree growing 35–55 m (115–180 ft) tall and with a trunk diameter of 1 to 1.5 m (39 to 59 in). It can grow fast when young, up to 1 m (3 ft) per year for the first 25 years under good conditions, but becomes slower once over 20 m (65 ft) tall.
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Emperors of Feudal Japan Emperors also ate the most luxurious food, which the majority of Japanese people in the feudal period could not afford, including fish, rice, sake and Japanese sweets, often made of rice. A lot of food from the period are still considered the most popular food in Japan today.
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- Note that although the tallest living tree in the world is a coast redwood, the biggest living tree on the planet is a specimen of a related species, the giant sequoia. The largest giant sequoia is named . General Sherman .
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The Black Spruce The Siberian Spruce. The siberian spruce is a spruce tree that is abundant in the russia region of the taiga. It too is a tall tree that can reach up to 30 meters high. Some of its adaptations are branches that are shaped as a pyramid. This shape promotes the snow to slide of the branches to prevent branches being broken from the weight.
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World's Tallest Pine. 268.29' Ponderosa ~ 2011 The image to the right shows Will Koomjian of Ascending the Giants, climbing Phalanx, October, 2011. The photo below shows the lower trunk of that tallest known pine in the world found January 3, 2011, in the Oregon Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest. Pulling away the tape, is Michael Taylor. Taylor also discovered Hyperion the tallest redwood, with Chris Atkins in 2006.
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- The Tongass National Forest /ˈtɒŋɡəs/ in southeastern Alaska is the largest national forest in the United States at 17 million acres (69,000 km 2).he Tongass, which is managed by the United States Forest Service, encompasses islands of the Alexander Archipelago, fjords and glaciers, and peaks of the Coast Mountains.
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Trees of Oregonâs forests Trees of Oregon’s forests. Traveling across the state, you soon discover that Oregon is home to a wide range of trees. There are 30 native coniferous species and 37 native species of broadleaf trees. Oregon varies greatly in terms of elevation, temperature, wind, rainfall and soil composition. Combinations of all these factors help determine the dominant tree species of an area.
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Kentucky State Tree Liriodendron tulipifera. Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tuliptree, tulip-poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the Western Hemisphere representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron, and the tallest eastern hardwood.
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Alaska State Tree Sitka spruce, (Picea sitchensis,) known also as tideland spruce, coast spruce, and yellow spruce, is the largest of the world's spruces and is one of the most prominent forest trees in stands along the northwest coast of North America. Alaska didn't become a state, officially, until 1959. House Bill No. 325 proposed the Sitka spruce, the most valuable tree species in Alaska, as the official state tree of Alaska.
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Alaskan Yellow Cedar Alaskan Yellow Cedar. Other common names: Nootka cypress, sitka cypress, pacific yellow cedar. Found only on the Pacific coast of North America, Yellow Cedar is the hardest known cedar in the world. Prized by boat builders, it has exceptional resistance to weather and insects as well as easy workability.
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Is there an evergreen tree that would outproduce (oxygen) an oak tree? To date the trees listed as the fastest growing for accumulating square footage of timber in the trunk of the tree would be the Monterey Pine. This tree can grow up to 8-10 feet a year given the correct conditions. You would think that this would be in Oregon but it is actually in a small coastal area of Northern California.
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Oregon loses world's largest bigleaf maple in wind storm Bigleaf maples grow to be the largest of their family, which includes maples, ashes and box elders. They grow primarily in moist western North America, along the coast between Alaska and California. They are usually found mixed with alder trees beneath a canopy of large conifers.
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The Southern live oak ( Quercus virginiana) The largest measured Southern Live Oak, named the Middleton Oak, grows in Middleton, South Carolina. In 2004, when the Middleton Oak was measured, the tree had a total wood volume of roughly 4,820 cubic feet (roughly 136 m³) and was the largest tree in eastern part of the U.S.
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Massive Tree House in Crosville, Tennessee: The Largest in The World Massive Tree House in Crosville, Tennessee: The Largest in The World. A Crossville, TN (US) minister named Horace Burgess owns the largest tree house in the world. It rises 97 feet into the sky, the support provided by a live, 80-foot-tall white oak 12 feet in diameter at its base. Six other trees brace the tower-like fortress.
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- General Sherman – California, U.S. The General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree is found in California’s Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park. It is believed to be the world’s largest known living single stem tree by volume. The tree is about 52,500 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters) in volume.
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The Dalles Campground, WA Marking the beginning of the Dalles River View trail at the west end of the campground loop is the Big Tree, a 700 year-old Douglas fir that measures 9.5 feet in diameter. Anglers will enjoy fly fishing on the White River and its tributaries, as it sustains several species of salmon and trout.
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Picea sitchensis The Queets Spruce is the largest in the world with a trunk volume of 337 m3 (11,900 cu ft), a height of 75.6 m (248 ft), and a 4.55 m (14.9 ft) dbh. It is located near the Queets River in Olympic National Park, about 26 km (16 mi) from the Pacific Ocean.
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World's Oldest Living Tree -- 9550 years old -- Discovered In Sweden This 9,550 year old spruce has been discovered in Dalarna, Sweden. A favourable climate has produced an upright trunk since the beginning of the 1940s. Credit: Leif Kullman. The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time. FULL STORY.
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World's Tallest Pine. 268.29' Ponderosa ~ 2011 Discovery of 4 new world's tallest pines and 12 new tallest among Ponderosa Pine. In Southern Oregon at the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. The height of the tallest pine, according to the laser measurement in January, reached 268.35' The tallest one is called Phalanx. Eight of the 12 pines became new height records for this species.
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- Example of Redwoods in Redwood National and State Parks (Hyperion not pictured) Hyperion is the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Northern California that was measured at 115.61 m (379.3 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree. After 2013, new tall coast redwoods were found, research reports omit tree names, and previously known tallest redwoods grew, fell, or lost height.
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- In addition, their needles are arranged differently from those of most conifers; on current-year twigs they're borne singly, but on older twigs they arise in dense clusters from stout, woody pegs that resemble wooden barrels. Only 10 species of larch occur in the world, mostly in cold parts of the northern hemisphere. Only western larch and subalpine larch grow in the Pacific Northwest. Larches are commonly called tamaracks, especially by people whose roots are in eastern North America. For more information on the larch native to the Pacific Northwest, go to the species page or see Trees to Know in Oregon.
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- The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in California's Sequoia National Park. Called General Sherman, the tree is about 52,500 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters) in volume.
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Menstruation, Your Period and Ovulation After Baby I had my baby 2 months ago and DO NOT breastfeed. I had my first period 6 weeks after giving birth and I should have had a period this month like 4 days ago and still haven’t gotten it. I’m wondering if its normal to be irregular after giving birth when not breast feeding.
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Temperate Rainforest Biome There are certain trees that can only be found in a Temperate Rainforest. Some of these are the Sitka Spruce, and the Western Hemlock. The Sitka Spruce is the world’s largest spruce, with tall, a straight trunk, and horizontal branches. They can reach up 160 feet tall, and up-.