goeduck
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Our "Douglas Fir" is not a true fir and one was the tallest reliably measured tree in history at 393 feet.However, what you call fir is a lot different from the fast growing, short lived, soft wooded (balsam) fir which we know.
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Douglas-fir may well have been the tallest tree species on the planet. To put things in perspective: the tallest reliably measured Douglas-fir was 393 ft tall; the tallest known tree in the world today is a 381 ft coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in California that Taylor co-discovered.
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Michael Taylor & Steve Sillett Discover World's 10 Tallest Douglas-firs — Sugar Pine Foundation
The Sugar Pine Foundation is friends with two of the leading discoverers of the world’s tallest trees: Michael Taylor and Dr. Steve Sillett. For 30 years, Taylor and Sillett have slogged through dense, punishing underbrush and up and down vertiginous ravines in search of the tallest trees on
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