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Australia's NATIONAL REGISTER OF BIG TREES
At over 76.2 m this tree situated on Stony Creek Road just off the Pacific Highway just north of Bulahdelah has in the past been reported to be the tallest tree in NSW. The tree is now considered to be senescent and some sources have suggested it may have once been as high as 84metres tall. It is thought to be over 400 years old.
Recently I have heard reports of another tall tree west of Coffs Harbour located in the Cunnawarra Flora Reserve on the Northern Tablelands of NSW.
This tree,reportedly a Eucalyptus nobilis - Ribbon Gum has been measured at 79m with no trunk diameter available at this time.
This Eucalyptus nobilis was lucky to escape recent destructive winds which damaged trees as close as only 30 metres from it.
In mid July 2010 I was fortunate to be guided through dense bush and rocky escarpments to see the Woodford Tree (Eucalyptus deanei)
This tree, in the NSW Blue Mountains, is definitely not senescent and is a healthy growing tree. According to Poytr it was measured in 1978 at 78m with a trunk girth of 2.6metres at chest height. (Source Poytr's image above)
In late 2010 Poytr in the company of an expert re visited and remeasured this tree at 71 metres with the previous measurement apparently not recorded as accurately as methods today allow.
Comparative to Agathis australis,The New Zealand Kauri,both the Myall Lakes National Park's Eucalyptus grandis and Cunnawarra Flora Reserve's Eucalyptus nobilis are much taller but would definitely not match the Kauri for girth.
There are however much taller trees among the Tasmanian, Victorian and Western Australian Forests.
Information from this Weblink - TALLEST TREES IN THE WORLD suggests the Robinson Tree a Eucalyptus regnans (Mountain Ash) at Mt. Baw Baw, Victoria, Australia circa 1889 was believed to have measured 143 m (470 ft.).
The Fergusen Tree, another Australian Eucalyptus regnans, at Watts River, Victoria, was measured in 1872 after it fell after a fire. It had reportedly been estimated to be over 150 m (492 ft.) tall.
However the tallest reliably documented tree ever measured in Australia was the Thorpdale Tree, a Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) growing at Thorpdale in Victoria, Australia. The tree was measured at 112.8m (370 feet) standing and 114.3m (375 feet) on the ground after it was felled in 1884.
In 2009 the tallest living trees in Australia are in Tasmania, the tallest of which is a massive 99.6 metre high Eucalyptus regnans known as Centurian The tree is near Geevestons Tahune Airwalk.
More information on Australia's tallest trees at these links.
isaac.org.au/info/bigtrees.htm
www.baddevelopers.green.net.au/Docs/talltrees.htm
www.natural-environment.com/blog/2008/01/22/tallest-tree-...
A new world's tallest tree was discovered in California in 2006.
The tree, a Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood) has been named Hyperion and was climbed and measured at 115.55m ( 379.1' ).
The video falsely claims the worlds tallest tree ever was a Douglas Fir which grew in British Coumbia Canada over 100 years ago at 122m. There seems little doubt however that Australia's 18th century Eucalyptus regans trees almost certainly were once the worlds tallest trees.
Today Eucalyptus regnans can claim to be the world's tallest flowering tree and also the world's tallest hardwood tree,if not currently having a candidate for the current world's tallest tree.
The article below graphically demonstrates that we simply cannot rely on our governments to ensure that policies are in place to prevent the tragic consequences of irresponsible or incompetant forestry management.
Tasmanian Forestry Department Burn Kills Tallest Tree
Many branches of this historic tree touch the ground.
The Birthing Tree, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee is said to be named for the children born under the shade of its branches to parents who were early settlers to the area arriving by wagon train.
The white oak is 81 feet tall and the crown spreads 130 feet.
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This other trail looked awesome. And we knew for a fact it was incredibly long. That's a treebridge.
Me admiring the size of this giant tree in Iriomote-jima's lush rainforest.
Due to a rather Sunny day beyond the jungle canopy it was quite difficult to get the exposure right on this shot, but the Sony A7R did a great job at balancing the brightness of the sky vs the shadows of the jungle floor. Well done Sony!
Iriomote island (Iriomote-jima) is the largest of the Yaeyama islands in Okinawa prefecture.
90% of the island is covered by pristine rainforest, untouched mangrove swamps, spectacular jungle waterfalls, huge rivers with marine life in abundance, beautiful secluded white sand beaches and lots of wildlife.
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Ta Prohm, built in late12th and 13th centuries, is famous for its ruins interlaced with gigantic trees
Flooded gum (Eucalyptus grandis). Way Way forest, Mid north coast of New South Wales. The tallest of these trees was measured several times. The highest reading was 70 metres exactly. This reading was taken in the wind when the tree was leaning over. The top part of the tree is the second tuft of leaves. It's actually two metres higher than the apparently taller tuft on the left.
Some of the thicker trees in the background may be taller than the measured tree, centre front of the photo.
A plantation from 1941-42, the trees are remarkably thin. In twenty years, the trees may exceed 80 metres tall.
Back in 1987 I nick-named this tree "Big Spotty", the name seems to have stuck. The published height is 68 metres, and my measurements this morning are within one metre of that. South Brooman State Forest, near Batemans Bay.
This tree is growing on a rainforest margin. I've seen many of the giant trees of the state of New South Wales, and this individual is the most beautiful.
This poem was published around 25 years ago. It's about the spotted gum forests in the south coast of New South Wales. It's a fictional story of drinking too much beer at the bowling club at Batemans Bay. Meeting up with a couple of friendly locals who invited the drinker to stay overnight at their house at Depot Beach.
The poem has a botanical error. There's no Turpentine trees this far south. I got that wrong and felt very embarrassed when the poem was published.
Anyway, the poem is about the great beauty of these eucalyptus forests and the superb scenery of Depot Beach.
Depot Beach
we passed my crooked parked car
at the bowling club in Batemans Bay
in an afternoon of Melbourne beer
with strangers who invited me to their house
at Depot Beach
from the back seat
the sun strobed in the bridge girders
and looking upriver toward the fishing boats
were the unseen catches of big scaled silver bream
and rings of broken mirror water
the next conscious instant I was on a canyon highway
beneath a forty metre high forest on each side
and my simple minded driver said nothing
speeding through the most princely stretch
of the Princes Highway
an abrupt turn to the right to a dust road
cutting through a sixty year old logging site
where Blue Gums spread their silky new trunks
in an elegant rush across the yellowing sunset light
then down another dip by the cream of flowering turpentine
and the dark leaved Lilli Pilli that drivers barely see
I ate then slept like an old Spotted Gum log
dragged from the dark by long dead bullocks
and rose pale and sick to an aluminium rimmed window
and a deserted sunrise at Depot Beach
wrenching open the day
and tasting the salt of the warming sea wind
鎮西堡巨木群步道（B區） Forest trail hike to giant old trees in Taiwan Giant tree district in Cinsbu 鎮西堡 (Cinsbu)，美好的所在，位於新竹縣尖石鄉雲深之處，海拔約1500~1800公尺，泰雅語Cinsbu的意思為「清晨，太陽第一個照到，日照充足之地。」有最接近上帝的部落之稱。 Hsinchu county, Taiwan
An imposing sight, around 50 metres tall. Already a gigantic tree. It may form another "curtain" of descending roots like the Curtain Fig up near Cairns. Though, that's a different species of fig (Ficus virens).
Ta Prohm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម, pronunciation: brasaeattaproh) is the modern name of the temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara (in Khmer: រាជវិហារ). Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray, it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors. UNESCO inscribed Ta Prohm on the World Heritage List in 1992. Today, it is one of the most visited complexes in Cambodia’s Angkor region. The conservation and restoration of Ta Prohm is a partnership project of the Archaeological Survey of India and the APSARA (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap).
HISTORY
FOUNDATION & EXPANSION
In 1186 A.D., Jayavarman VII embarked on a massive program of construction and public works. Rajavihara ("monastery of the king"), today known as Ta Prohm ("ancestor Brahma"), was one of the first temples founded pursuant to that program. The stele commemorating the foundation gives a date of 1186 A.D.
Jayavarman VII constructed Rajavihara in honor of his family. The temple's main image, representing Prajnaparamita, the personification of wisdom, was modelled on the king's mother. The northern and southern satellite temples in the third enclosure were dedicated to the king's guru and his elder brother respectively. As such, Ta Prohm formed a complementary pair with the temple monastery of Preah Khan, dedicated in 1191 A.D., the main image of which represented the Bodhisattva of compassion Lokesvara and was modelled on the king's father.
The temple's stele records that the site was home to more than 12,500 people (including 18 high priests and 615 dancers), with an additional 800,000 souls in the surrounding villages working to provide services and supplies. The stele also notes that the temple amassed considerable riches, including gold, pearls and silks. Expansions and additions to Ta Prohm continued as late as the rule of Srindravarman at the end of the 15th century.
ABANDONMENT & RESTAURATION
After the fall of the Khmer Empire in the 17th century, the temple of Ta Prohm was abandoned and neglected for centuries. When the effort to conserve and restore the temples of Angkor began in the early 21st century, the École française d'Extrême-Orient decided that Ta Prohm would be left largely as it had been found, as a "concession to the general taste for the picturesque." According to pioneering Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize, Ta Prohm was singled out because it was "one of the most imposing [temples] and the one which had best merged with the jungle, but not yet to the point of becoming a part of it". Nevertheless, much work has been done to stabilize the ruins, to permit access, and to maintain "this condition of apparent neglect."
As of 2013, Archaeological Survey of India has restored most parts of the temple complex some of which have been constructed from scratch. Wooden walkways, platforms and roped railings have been put in place around the site to protect the monument from further damages due to the large tourist inflow.
THE SITE
LAYOUT
The design of Ta Prohm is that of a typical "flat" Khmer temple (as opposed to a temple-pyramid or temple-mountain, the inner levels of which are higher than the outer). Five rectangular enclosing walls surround a central sanctuary. Like most Khmer temples, Ta Prohm is oriented to the east, so the temple proper is set back to the west along an elongated east-west axis. The outer wall of 1000 by 650 metres encloses an area of 650,000 square metres that at one time would have been the site of a substantial town, but that is now largely forested. There are entrance gopuras at each of the cardinal points, although access today is now only possible from the east and west. In the 13th century, face towers similar to those found at the Bayon were added to the gopuras. Some of the face towers have collapsed. At one time, moats could be found inside and outside the fourth enclosure.
The three inner enclosures of the temple proper are galleried, while the corner towers of the first enclosure form a quincunx with the tower of the central sanctuary. This basic plan is complicated for the visitor by the circuitous access necessitated by the temple's partially collapsed state, as well as by the large number of other buildings dotting the site, some of which represent later additions. The most substantial of these other buildings are the libraries in the southeast corners of the first and third enclosures; the satellite temples on the north and south sides of the third enclosure; the Hall of Dancers between the third and fourth eastern gopuras; and a House of Fire east of the fourth eastern gopura.
REPRESENTATIONAL ART
Ta Prohm has not many narrative bas-reliefs(compared to Angkor Wat or Angkor Thom). One explanation that has been proffered for this dearth is that much of the temple's original Buddhist narrative artwork must have been destroyed by Hindu iconoclasts following the death of Jayavarman VII. At any rate, some depictions of scenes from Buddhist mythology do remain. One badly eroded bas-relief illustrates the "Great Departure" of Siddhartha, the future Buddha, from his father's palace. The temple also features stone reliefs of devatas (minor female deities), meditating monks or ascetics, and dvarapalas or temple guardians.
TREES
The trees growing out of the ruins are perhaps the most distinctive feature of Ta Prohm, and "have prompted more writers to descriptive excess than any other feature of Angkor." Two species predominate, but sources disagree on their identification: the larger is either the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) or thitpok Tetrameles nudiflora, and the smaller is either the strangler fig (Ficus gibbosa). or Gold Apple (Diospyros decandra). Indulging in what might be regarded as "descriptive excess," Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize observed, "On every side, in fantastic over-scale, the trunks of the silk-cotton trees soar skywards under a shadowy green canopy, their long spreading skirts trailing the ground and their endless roots coiling more like reptiles than plants."
IN POPULAR MEDIA
The temple of Ta Prohm was used as a location in the film Tomb Raider. Although the film took visual liberties with other Angkorian temples, its scenes of Ta Prohm were quite faithful to the temple's actual appearance, and made use of its eerie qualities.
Some believe that one of the carvings resembles a stegosaurus.
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Northern California
And as I drove down that lonesome highway,
I found myself surrounded by giants.....
A large laurel tree. Measuring by laser was impossible, as the tree top was out of view. However, a reasonable estimate of height is 40 to 55 metres tall. Tooloom Scrub, northern New South Wales.
The logging industry began in Bellingham, Washington in 1850 and played a crucial role in its development and growth. Two Californians, Captain Henry Roeder and Russell V. Peabody, arrived at the mouth of Whatcom Creek and established a water-powered sawmill, taking advantage of the area’s abundant forests and waterways. The sawmill’s success attracted more settlers and businesses to the area.
The demand for lumber, especially after the fire in San Francisco, led to rapid economic growth. Bellingham became a hub for logging and milling, which in turn supported other industries like mining, canning (especially salmon), and railroads. The prosperity brought by the logging industry led to the consolidation of four settlements – Whatcom, Sehome, Fairhaven, and Bellingham – into one city in 1904. This made Bellingham the fourth-largest municipality in Washington at the time. The logging industry provided employment for many, including local Native American tribes who built houses and mills and contributed significantly to the local economy.
Even today, the legacy of the logging industry is evident in Bellingham’s culture and economy. While the city has diversified, the historical impact of logging is still celebrated and remembered through various local museums and historical sites. [Sources: Bing Copilot, HistoryLink.org, and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}
[Note: It is sad when an ancient tree such as the one in the photo falls victim to the axe. Today, logging in old-growth forests is still a contentious issue. However, many ancient old-growth or mature native forests are now protected from logging and are open to the public.]
Typically, the vertical shots showcase the vastness of these trees, but this panorama shots shows just how wide these trees are in relation to their surrounding brethren.
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"The last big stand". This tree is around 55 metres tall. There's eleven of them here.
The laser returned a figure of 49 metres to a point above in the canopy. Almost certainly not the highest point of the tree. Estimated height of the tree; 50 to 60 metres tall.
This is the famous "last big stand of Red Cedar". These millenial giants were hunted down for logging in the 20th & 19th century. Apparently they got them all, apart from this grove.
Bill Haydon ran a logging company up north. He had heard of this stand in Washpool, and decided to search for it. The 74 year old set out in 1965, alone in the bush. But that was the last anyone heard of him.
Luckily for this rainforest, these giant mahoganies still stand. What a privilege it was to be there yesterday.
There's a record of a 55 metre red cedar near Wollongong. I've seen the tree, it's wonderful and magnificent. However, the figure of 55 seems spurious at worst, and inaccurate at best. These trees at Washpool are bigger and taller.
I visited the UBC Botanical Garden in the weekend. This is a nice place to go for families.
This is the canopy walkway in the garden.
The 308-metre walkway, which reaches heights in excess of 17.5 metres, enables visitors and researchers to experience the unique biodiversity of a Pacific Coastal Rainforest canopy, which include s treetop mosses, lichens, birds, insects and other invertebrates, and offers a "bird's eye" view of the forest canopy.
The little boy right after the girl in the picture shouted to his dad at the end of walkway. "I am scared! dad"
His dad comforted him and finally he made it by himself. His dad said to him "You are the best!"