Nooksack Giant

Nooksack Giant depicted after felling, in The Morning Times, February 28, 1897

The Nooksack Giant was a superlative Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) that grew at Loop's Ranch (now Alpenglow Farm) in Maple Falls in Washington State. It was felled in the 1890s. The tree was measured with a tape after felling at 465 feet (142 m) tall, and 34 feet (10 m) in circumference. It produced more than 96,000 board feet of lumber.^[1] The New York Times regarded the tree in a March 7, 1897 issue as the "most magnificent fir tree ever beheld by human eyes" and called its destruction a "truly pitiable tale" and a "crime".^[1]^[2] The Morning Times of February 28, 1897 claimed that the wood, sawed into one-inch strips, would reach from "Whatcom [the tree's location] to China".^[3]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Giant logged long ago but not forgotten", The Seattle Times, September 4, 2011
^ "Topics of The Times" (PDF). The New York Times. March 7, 1897.
^ "This tree might reach to China". Washington, D.C.: The Morning Times. February 28, 1897. p. 19 – via Library of Congress.

Coordinates: 48°54′54″N 122°06′47″W / 48.915°N 122.113°W / 48.915; -122.113

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[ST20110904-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Giant logged long ago but not forgotten", The Seattle Times, September 4, 2011

[2] "Topics of The Times" (PDF). The New York Times. March 7, 1897.

[3] "This tree might reach to China". Washington, D.C.: The Morning Times. February 28, 1897. p. 19 – via Library of Congress.

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