Climbing Big Lonely Doug, Canada's 2nd Largest Douglas-fir Tree
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Raw video shot by TJ Watt and Will Koomjian (GoPro)
OFFICIAL MEASUREMENTS:
• Height: 66 m (216 ft) (broken top)
• Width: 4 m (12 ft)
• Circumference: 12 m (39 ft)
• Estimated age: ~1000 years old
Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island -- "Big Lonely Doug", the recently found, second-largest Douglas-fir tree in Canada, has been scaled by a team of professional tree-climbers. The climbers with the Arboreal Collective are collaborating with the Ancient Forest Alliance, a BC-based conservation organization, to highlight, research, and document the largest old-growth trees and grandest groves in British Columbia. Big Lonely Doug stands alone in a 2012 clearcut, hence its name.
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The Arboreal Collective's Matthew Beatty, Tiger Devine, Dan Holliday, and the Ancient Forest Alliance's TJ Watt, were also joined by Will Koomjian from Ascending the Giants, a similar research and awareness-raising organization of tree-climbers based in Portland, and by photographer James Frystak. The Arboreal Collective also collaborates on research with the BC Big Tree Registry, run by the University of British Columbia, a register of the largest measured trees in the province.
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 Tree Farm Licence 46 held by the logging company Teal-Jones, in the unceded traditional territory of the Pacheedaht First Nation band. It was first measured and recognized as exceptionally large by Ancient Forest Alliance campaigners in March of this year.
Big Lonely Doug stands alone among dozens of giant stumps -- some 3 meters wide - of old-growth western redcedars and Douglas-firs, in a roughly 20 hectare clearcut that was logged in 2012. One of its largest branches was recently torn off in a fierce wind/snow storm in February, with a 50 centimeter wide base (the size of most second-growth trees) and still fresh needles lying on the ground adjacent to the tree.
Government data from 2012 show that about 75% of the original, productive old-growth forests on BC's southern coast (Vancouver Island and Southwest Mainland) have been logged, including over 90% of the highest productivity, valley bottom ancient stands where the largest trees grow. 99% of the old-growth Douglas-fir trees on BC's coast have also been logged. The BC government often grossly overinflates the amount of remaining ancient forests in BC by releasing statistics that include vast tracts of bog and subalpine forests consisting of small, stunted old-growth trees of little to no commercial value, combined with the less extensive tracts of the large, old-growth trees growing on more productive sites at risk of being logged.
I think it's very sad that this is how this tree has found itself standing alone.
It will be surprising if it survives bad storms in coming years as it has no partners to share the load :(
They harvested every single tree around it. I wonder why they didn't just process it along with the others. I also wonder if it might fall victim to its sudden high exposure to the elements with the others gone, or Fomes Annosus (Heterobasidion annosum) with all the stumps around it harboring fungus as they rot?.
they call them seed trees, and yeah they don't work that great in a storm
Poor Lonely Doug. I wish he hadn't lost so many of his friends.
Can you imagine thrusting your way up with a Blakes hitch to the top? Even if you use a friction savor, it would still be a task. Plus, hauling a 500' rope along the trails to and from the tree.
Amazing footage and skilled team of climbers. BC Province time to enact a real old-growth management plan that ends the cutting of trees never planted by industry. Restrict logging to 2nd growth tree farms to satisfy the demand.
It would be nice to brainstorm some wind abatement strategies to help protect this world class icon from its current biggest threat. What a tree!
Freakin sweet ! Nice hustle on the single line .
Amazing tree. But clear cutting has got to stop. How tall is it? U guys didn't say.
66m 216 ft
Did I peep climbing arborist in there ... my favorite TH-cam climber channel ... mad knowledge
Great man .huge tree.
what kind of equipment do you have in your boots to climb the tree?
Wow! Nice climb. Wish I had some of your gear. Sad to see the moss, fern. lichen, liverwort epiphytes drying out due to lack of shade. I wonder how long until the winds bring that poor isolated beauty down? Well, "Onwards and Upwards!". shall we?
Look at that tree then look at the giant stump next to it at 1:52
Beautiful tree with moss and the grand size of it.
You are so brave!
You amigo are kalimannnnnn el hombre increíble loco kaliman. 2 Loved tress god bless you thx
Hey, I live on Vancouver Island, I wanna climb that tree.
a national treasure
Woah thats big
the article told everything about the tree but the AGE...any guesses?
Very nice
Now watch it get struck by lightning since they clear cut everything within a quarter mile of the tree...
True, never thought of that.
Maybe that or it falls in a storm.
Wow...A skycraper ttee.😍
what ascending technique and equipment was used, it looked like a very fast accent !
Poor old tree god save that beautiful living thing
How do you see what you are anchored to from the ground??
f*n' sad.
TREE-BEARD!
Woww amazing
Wow
I`v got four of them on the property I just bought!!Just a tad shorter than this one.
Now,ANY mother fucker showing up with axe,chainsaw or any sharp object WILL
answer to me.
Many regrets from Parksville,BC
PS,petition signed.IF that helps???
A magnificent tree but to look at the surrounding demolition, well its just plain disgusting! I feel sad to be human right now, even though the growth of the human specie's is paramount surely there could be a more visually pleasing way to harvest timber, maybe take one in three trees every 5-10 yrs so theres still an actual forest to walk and camp in, even though it would be sparcley populated with trees it still will purify the air and aid in animal regrowth!
hell yeah
Desperate men in Canada.
They say i feels lonely on the top.
what a disgrace
I once went to clayoquot sound in the 90's and flew above it, as far as I could see it was all clear cut, just a tiny patch was left alone, the patch that people could see from the water, horrible.
Sad surrounding . It must feel lonely.Very lonely.
Poor Doug, he just wants a friend
This type of logging needs to be screeched to a halt. It is ugly, it is destructive and in the long run, logging companies lose an opportunity to make more money through sustainable harvesting not of primary growth but of secondary growth. It will take many decade maybe centuries for the forest to return to a somewhat presentable form.
jfrinns , thats what i keep getting at as well. Its helps no one. Second growth is best bet. With 1-3% of the worlds old growth forests around it should be a no brainer.
jfrinns ya u are truw
They have set it for a fall by a storm...... divided we fall...
symetree does nt get much better than that . the shape is perfect
Niiiiiicccee.
Save forests ❤
Dear humans we have to save this kind of largest trees, don't cut their life, they are our gods. Not a Christians and Muslims and Hindu gods.
Must been beautiful up there.
Angora Merdo No look at all the cut down trees
what a beautiful majestic tree...
awesome, highest tree in germany is a Douglas with 66,58m
Keep writing the politicians and donating to the people/groups that are working to save the old growth forests...Money speaks and ecotourism creates money and pressure against the destruction of these forests.
wow ok that tree is a reason to use a rope for, i will shut my mouth about using ropes to climb trees from now on
Good job I didn't climb it. I would have just stayed there!
Wow. What a tall tree
how tall was it> ..and how old is this tree....? the view must have been magnificient from there....
Sad cutting of trees.Felt like killing of environment.
The Ents go to war th-cam.com/video/XzugQBkUrZk/w-d-xo.html
Really is sad, sad as humans are.we take and we take amazing video save the trees and have some control over are population would help. Great video
first talles was in Oregon but she fell over 327 feet dougles Fer
That clear cutting is so awful!
0:19 is where you get the perspective, next to the little humans.
CUT CUT AND CUT, one there will only one tree
Earth needs Tree Beard from the Ents to come forth, it is a disgrace what mankind has wreaked on this small fragile Planet
En el paneo con la cámara se ve tristemente cuanta desforestacion se realizado alrededor de la secuoya
et ses mensuration?? ca doit être énorme
lamentable la deforestacion realizada en rededor del gigante. el que deberia ser un ejemplo para permitir el desarrollo a la naturaleza, ME PARECE DESMEDIDO el espacio abierto en el bosque para resaltar un ejemplar. aniquilando la posibilidad a los arboles talados de seguirse desarrollando.
Breathtaking, thumb up! Thanks for publishing we'll share this video on our Google plus page ;-)
say hi to doug from us. we love trees
My dream!
That's like 5 normal trees tall
i would love to come rec climb with y'all!!! Awesome!!
cool
No Church in the world higher than this tree...
😳😳😳😳🤯🤯🤯🤯😬😬😬🤪🤪🤪😱😱😱
👍your winner climbing high trees
So sad, its so so lonley..
My dream !
Did a major storm hit the area? I wonder
Trees need friends.
That's a bit ass tree
So exciting wow
l should be there
ok,, believed to be 1000 years old...
good
Crazy
Amazing
Not having a go at the climbers btw, must have been magic up there
Did you use a wraptor to climb it?
Avatar trees.
That is AMAZING I only climbed about 100 feet here in SW Pennsylvania and would love to climb that beauty. If anyone cuts it down I hope the tree crushes them!!!!