Those Amazing Trees

Some facts about tree's on Vancouver Island: The tallest creatures on Earth

MacMillan Bloedell tree sanctuary, Cathedral Grove on Vancouver Island, B.C.

Coniferous trees are the earth's oldest and tallest inhabitants, in most parts of the world a tree is tall at 30meters (100 ft), big trees in the tropical rain forests grow to 50meters (175 ft), in mature pacific rain forests trees average 60 meters (200 ft) and the giants may tower over 90 meters (300 ft). This is the largest tree in Cathedral Grove, it was already 300 years old when Columbus reached America in 1492 (over 800 years old), it has 26,000 board feet of lumber which can build two 2 story 4 bedroom houses. It measure 76 meters (250 feet tall), it measures 3 meters (9.5 ft) through and 9 meters (30 ft) around. Both the largest and tallest trees in Canada are found on Vancouver Island, the Red Creek Fir (The largest tree) is the second largest Douglas Fir on earth, broken off at 73.5 meters (241 ft) in height, it measures 12.6 meters 41 feet around and is estimated at close to a millennium old. The worlds tallest Sitca Spruce grows in the Caramana Valley at 95 meters (312 feet), it is almost as tall as a 32 story building.

Let us learn a lesson from the little boy, when we work on ourselves our world begins to take shape. When you build character, grow, personally develop you put the man together and then the world comes together.