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Tree No. 1 - The Bird Treee - Middle Brother National Park, Johns River, Mid North Coast, NSW,
The Bird Tree and nearby Benaroon are regarded as two of the largest Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) trees by volume in Australia.
Not far from the Bird Tree/Benaroon site is a large Eucalyptus grandis tree known as The Big Fella Gum Tree (67.3 metres tall)
This Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) tree pictured above and known as the' Bird Tree' is the first big tree you see when you get out of your car at the Bird Tree carpark in Middle Brother National Park just north of Johns River on the NSW Mid North Coast.
The 'Bird Tree' appears to be senescent and a sign warns visitors not to climb the fence in front of the tree due to danger from falling branches.
As the track is unsigned no doubt some people do stop here at the 'Bird Tree' and fail to find the track which eventually leads to another massive tree called 'Benanoon', along the way passing 2 other large trees, one of which is senecent and burned out in the centre. (I have called it 'The Hulk').
Before you reach this burnt out tree however there is another large and apparently healthy tree near the track easily recognised by its large, almost buttressed root.
NOTE - The Bird Tree was measured in 2010 and submitted to the National Tree Register
The measured details were as follows :-
Circumference - 12.10 metres
height - 54 metres
Crown 29 metres
Estimated Age - 400 years
National Tree Register Points - 677
Here is some perhaps contradictory info from Wikipedia.
According to Wikipedia The Bird Tree, is 69 metres tall 3.59 metres diameter at breast height. The National Tree Register records the 'Bird Tree as 54 metres tall.
Nearby Benaroon, according to Wikipedia is 64 metres tall and 4.1 metres diameter at breast height.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nationalparks/parkHome.aspx?id...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpJPTc-NCo
The road up to the Bird Tree carpark is probably best left to all wheel or 4 wheel drive vehicles as it is rough in places.
Directions: Middle Brother Road leaves the Pacific Highway at Stewarts River, 11 km south of Kew. Follow the signs to Bird Tree day use area off Grey Gum Ridge Road.
Other Large Mid North Coast Trees
A large Eucalyptus gummifera (Bloodwood) can be seen near Wauchope
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Tree No. 1 - The Bird Treee - Middle Brother National Park, Johns River, Mid North Coast, NSW,
The Bird Tree and nearby Benaroon are regarded as two of the largest Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) trees by volume in Australia.
Not far from the Bird Tree/Benaroon site is a large Eucalyptus grandis tree known as The Big Fella Gum Tree (67.3 metres tall)
This Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) tree pictured above and known as the' Bird Tree' is the first big tree you see when you get out of your car at the Bird Tree carpark in Middle Brother National Park just north of Johns River on the NSW Mid North Coast.
The 'Bird Tree' appears to be senescent and a sign warns visitors not to climb the fence in front of the tree due to danger from falling branches.
As the track is unsigned no doubt some people do stop here at the 'Bird Tree' and fail to find the track which eventually leads to another massive tree called 'Benanoon', along the way passing 2 other large trees, one of which is senecent and burned out in the centre. (I have called it 'The Hulk').
Before you reach this burnt out tree however there is another large and apparently healthy tree near the track easily recognised by its large, almost buttressed root.
NOTE - The Bird Tree was measured in 2010 and submitted to the National Tree Register
The measured details were as follows :-
Circumference - 12.10 metres
height - 54 metres
Crown 29 metres
Estimated Age - 400 years
National Tree Register Points - 677
Here is some perhaps contradictory info from Wikipedia.
According to Wikipedia The Bird Tree, is 69 metres tall 3.59 metres diameter at breast height. The National Tree Register records the 'Bird Tree as 54 metres tall.
Nearby Benaroon, according to Wikipedia is 64 metres tall and 4.1 metres diameter at breast height.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nationalparks/parkHome.aspx?id...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpJPTc-NCo
The road up to the Bird Tree carpark is probably best left to all wheel or 4 wheel drive vehicles as it is rough in places.
Directions: Middle Brother Road leaves the Pacific Highway at Stewarts River, 11 km south of Kew. Follow the signs to Bird Tree day use area off Grey Gum Ridge Road.
Other Large Mid North Coast Trees
A large Eucalyptus gummifera (Bloodwood) can be seen near Wauchope
For those who don't remember what preceded the current spaghetti junction in Loughlinstown.
The view is looking southwards on the N11. The gate on the left is the entance to Loughlinstown House and the photo is taken from the bus stop outside the site of the 18th century Owen Bray's Inn. This premises was lived in (mid-20th century) by a member of the Carroll (cigarettes) family. The building has now been demolished.
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Tree No. 1 - The Bird Treee - Middle Brother National Park, Johns River, Mid North Coast, NSW,
The Bird Tree and nearby Benaroon are regarded as two of the largest Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) trees by volume in Australia.
Not far from the Bird Tree/Benaroon site is a large Eucalyptus grandis tree known as The Big Fella Gum Tree (67.3 metres tall)
This Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) tree pictured above and known as the' Bird Tree' is the first big tree you see when you get out of your car at the Bird Tree carpark in Middle Brother National Park just north of Johns River on the NSW Mid North Coast.
The 'Bird Tree' appears to be senescent and a sign warns visitors not to climb the fence in front of the tree due to danger from falling branches.
As the track is unsigned no doubt some people do stop here at the 'Bird Tree' and fail to find the track which eventually leads to another massive tree called 'Benanoon', along the way passing 2 other large trees, one of which is senecent and burned out in the centre. (I have called it 'The Hulk').
Before you reach this burnt out tree however there is another large and apparently healthy tree near the track easily recognised by its large, almost buttressed root.
NOTE - The Bird Tree was measured in 2010 and submitted to the National Tree Register
The measured details were as follows :-
Circumference - 12.10 metres
height - 54 metres
Crown 29 metres
Estimated Age - 400 years
National Tree Register Points - 677
Here is some perhaps contradictory info from Wikipedia.
According to Wikipedia The Bird Tree, is 69 metres tall 3.59 metres diameter at breast height. The National Tree Register records the 'Bird Tree as 54 metres tall.
Nearby Benaroon, according to Wikipedia is 64 metres tall and 4.1 metres diameter at breast height.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nationalparks/parkHome.aspx?id...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpJPTc-NCo
The road up to the Bird Tree carpark is probably best left to all wheel or 4 wheel drive vehicles as it is rough in places.
Directions: Middle Brother Road leaves the Pacific Highway at Stewarts River, 11 km south of Kew. Follow the signs to Bird Tree day use area off Grey Gum Ridge Road.
Other Large Mid North Coast Trees
A large Eucalyptus gummifera (Bloodwood) can be seen near Wauchope
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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
The seven sisters live oak is one of the most remarkable trees in the Register. It is located in Louisiana, and hundreds, possibly thousands of years old.
Learn more about the National Register of Big Trees at www.americanforests.org/bigtrees
Awe-inspiring Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, trees in General Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA
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Waipoua Forest,North Island NZ
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At between 2000 and 3000 years old Te Matua Ngahere is the 2nd Largest Agathis australis -(Southern Kauri) in New Zealand and effectively - the world, having the
biggest Kauri girth of - 16.41m and the 2nd biggest trunk volume - 208.1Cubic Metres. Compared to the tallest Kauri,it is just over half Tane Mahuta's
height - 29.9m (Trunk Height - 10.21m.)
Although not as tall as Tane Mahuta (51.5m) "Lord of the Forest", Te Matua Ngahere "Father of the Forest" is much broader and stouter.
At 208.1Cubic Metres compared to Tane Mahuta's massive volume of 244.5 cubic metres Te Matua Ngahere is second in overal size to Tane Mahuta.
Te Matua Ngahere suffered serious crown damage in 2007 after a storm.
Storm takes centre of Te Matua Ngahere
Regretably in recent times New Zealand's iconic Agathis australis trees are in trouble from an introduced pathogenic fungus called Phytophthora - left unchecked it has the potential to wipe the species out.
This is an amazing must read article which details the sad history of Australia's tallest trees
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Tree No. 1 - The Bird Treee - Middle Brother National Park, Johns River, Mid North Coast, NSW,
The Bird Tree and nearby Benaroon are regarded as two of the largest Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) trees by volume in Australia.
Not far from the Bird Tree/Benaroon site is a large Eucalyptus grandis tree known as The Big Fella Gum Tree (67.3 metres tall)
This Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) tree pictured above and known as the' Bird Tree' is the first big tree you see when you get out of your car at the Bird Tree carpark in Middle Brother National Park just north of Johns River on the NSW Mid North Coast.
The 'Bird Tree' appears to be senescent and a sign warns visitors not to climb the fence in front of the tree due to danger from falling branches.
As the track is unsigned no doubt some people do stop here at the 'Bird Tree' and fail to find the track which eventually leads to another massive tree called 'Benanoon', along the way passing 2 other large trees, one of which is senecent and burned out in the centre. (I have called it 'The Hulk').
Before you reach this burnt out tree however there is another large and apparently healthy tree near the track easily recognised by its large, almost buttressed root.
NOTE - The Bird Tree was measured in 2010 and submitted to the National Tree Register
The measured details were as follows :-
Circumference - 12.10 metres
height - 54 metres
Crown 29 metres
Estimated Age - 400 years
National Tree Register Points - 677
Here is some perhaps contradictory info from Wikipedia.
According to Wikipedia The Bird Tree, is 69 metres tall 3.59 metres diameter at breast height. The National Tree Register records the 'Bird Tree as 54 metres tall.
Nearby Benaroon, according to Wikipedia is 64 metres tall and 4.1 metres diameter at breast height.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nationalparks/parkHome.aspx?id...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpJPTc-NCo
The road up to the Bird Tree carpark is probably best left to all wheel or 4 wheel drive vehicles as it is rough in places.
Directions: Middle Brother Road leaves the Pacific Highway at Stewarts River, 11 km south of Kew. Follow the signs to Bird Tree day use area off Grey Gum Ridge Road.
Other Large Mid North Coast Trees
A large Eucalyptus gummifera (Bloodwood) can be seen near Wauchope
This big tree gives home for 1000's.National tree of India.Few remains.Usually people take rest under these wonderful trees.
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Not encouraged today. Item 30331, Don Sherwood Parks History Collection (Record Series 5801-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
Michael Taylor and Lucas Crandall nominated this 525-point champion in Trinity County, California.
Learn more about the National Register of Big Trees at www.americanforests.org/bigtrees