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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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October 2016 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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At 230 feet, that tree turned out to be the country's second-tallest Douglas fir; it soon became known as Big Lonely Doug, an unwitting monument to the fragility of old-growth forests everywhere. Its neighbors reduced to splintered stumps, the immense Douglas fir is the last remnant of an ancient forest that likely survived for a millennium.
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Big Lonely Doug Easy • 4.4 (49) Gordon River 2, British Columbia, Canada Photos (103) Directions Print/PDF map Length 0.1 miElevation gain 19 ftRoute type Out & back Try this 0.1-mile out-and-back trail near Gordon River 2, British Columbia. Generally considered an easy route, it takes an average of 4 min to complete.
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How to Visit Avatar Grove, Big Lonely Doug and Other Big Trees on Vancouver Island 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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Meet Big Lonely Doug How letting trees grow can protect our future Forests 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.
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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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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.
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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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BIG LONELY DOUG weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast's big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada.
This huge Douglas Fir tree is on southern Vancouver Island in Canada. It is affectionately known
Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island - "Big Lonely Doug", a recently found old-growth Douglas-fir tree standing alone in a clearcut on southern Vancouver Island, has been officially measured to be the second largest Douglas-fir tree in Canada.
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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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Big Lonely Doug grows in the Gordon River Valley near the coastal town of Port Renfrew on southern Vancouver Island, known as the "Tall Trees Capital" of Canada. It stands on Crown lands in.
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Not far from there you can also visit Big Lonely Doug, the second-tallest Douglas fir remaining on the island (at a stunning 70 metres!). Throw in some terrific beaches, good surfing and the mysterious bonsai tree of Fairy Lake, and you start to see why visits to Port Renfrew are so memorable.
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What is Big Lonely Doug? In 2011, one of the forests on Vancouver Island was set to be clearcut by a logging company. Their surveyor, a man named Dennis Cronin, had worked in the timber industry for over 40 years and, in his own words, "cut down millions of trees".