Sunday, March 25, 2007

Ancient Giant

Some of the oldest trees in Canada are rooted on Vancouver Islands west coast and are primarily Western Red Cedar and the magnificent Douglas Firs. This is about a third of the base of the biggest tree I have seen in 15 years and is thought to be over 1600 years old. The Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, where I call home, also boasts some of the oldest trees in North America as the cedars that line the limestone cliffs are estimated to be in the multiple thousands of years old - extremely unique and beautiful but not nearly as awe inspiring as of one of the perpetually enormous trees found out here on the west coast. It truly is awesome.

1 Comments:

Blogger kristina said...

that really is amazing. i agree that the cedars on the niagara escarpment are very special, but i can't wait to see one of these giants! last night i was watching a segment from "the planet earth" show thats been on tv lately, and it was about trees... anyway, i just really want to scale and explore one of these beauties one day... one day :)

25/3/07 11:40 a.m.  

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