In a 2012 case of tree theft, a man pled guilty to poaching bigleaf maple, Western red cedar trees, and Douglas fir, at least one of which was 300 years old, from Olympic National Forest.

A downed Douglas Fir tree stretches far into the brush, covered in mangled limbs and other trunks it struck on its earth-shaking descent. It was between 500 and 1,000 years old , arborists say.

Core samples taken from a stand of old growth Douglas-fir trees in the South Beach area just south of Newport showed reduced growth following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck ...

Old Growth Giants Limited By Water-pulling Ability Date: August 17, 2008 Source: Oregon State University Summary: The Douglas-fir, state tree of Oregon, towering king of old-growth forests and one ...

Saving The Douglas Fir Tree. ... If you took out all of the Douglas fir trees in the Pacific Northwest, there would be nothing that anyone recognized as old growth forest," Denison said.

An Old Tree Doesn't Get Taller, ... "Tree growth rate increases continuously as trees get bigger and bigger ... Phillips has seen 500-year-old Douglas fir trees that are still producing scads ...

The widest girthed Douglas fir tree in Oregon is the star attraction of the Big Tree Trail, which leads through an old-growth forest above a marble cave system at the Oregon Caves National ...

But a native Northwesterner steeped in the lore of old-growth trees can draw strange inspiration from recent historical reports of a forgotten, long-ago-logged Douglas fir that might have been the ...

Climb an old growth tree at Silver Falls State Park. ... The anchor point of their huge 400-year-old Douglas Fir is about 200 feet off the ground.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Douglas-fir, state tree of Oregon, towering king of old-growth forests and one of the tallest tree species on Earth, finally stops growing taller because it just can't pull ...