Tall Tree Climbing

[palmerarb]

Tall Trees UK 2009 Project.

Video 3 Hermitage Douglas

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[Frank]

Cheers Steve,

 

That would be really good, I'll bear it in mind! We'll hopefully be doing some more in the spring.

 

where do I sign up???

[mdvaden]

That's pretty tall.

 

I think the tallest in our city is 73.76 meters / 242 feet. In the park about 15 minutes from here. Those are indigenous to this area.

 

When I was young, our home was across from about 100 acres of Douglas fir. One of my favorite forest trees. Has a real nice fragrance.

 

There are some conifers that got put into the coast forest west of us, that will be amusing to watch. Some Giant Sequoia. They grow great. But it would be a surprise if they reproduce. It's experimental in one fashion or another. They are barely a 100 feet tall. The spire tops really stand out. But there are no Giant Sequoia indigenous to Oregon.

 

Edited March 5, 2009 by mdvaden

[DrewB]

Nice videos man!!!

Im off doing seed collection on the Kauris this weekend so will hopefully get some pics of the trees

[Mark T]

Just an update for those that are interested...

 

Lukasz has put together a few of his pictures now which you can view here - http://lwimages.ifp3.com/root/lwimages/iphoto/main2.cfm - have a look at some of his other pics too, they're pretty special!

 

It's been a great project so far and we've got at least 2 other projects about to take off which is great! We've been knocked out by the amount of publicity the project has generated so far - you may have seen us in the national press over the last few weeks - it was always one of the project aims to raise the profile of some of the fantastic natural heritage we have in the UK but the sheer level of interest has been astounding and great for all parties concerned.

 

With any luck we'll have more pictures / videos / updates in the next month or so!