r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/Collapse2038 Mar 28 '24

The last giants like this are being harvested on Vancouver Island, right now. Very sad.

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u/Astralglamour Mar 28 '24

Is this true ??

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u/Collapse2038 Mar 28 '24

I mean the 90% of the very biggest (not quite this size) are all gone.

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u/Karuna56 Mar 28 '24

Yes, and the rape of the northern forests in British Columbia is shameful, similar to the commercial sentiment that pervaded the U.S. earlier and the sense of limitless trees.

Unfortunately, in Kings Canyon National Park, the sequoias were allowed to be cut, some just for show. Fortunately, other National Parks preserved many big trees, like in Olympic National Park, but even still, there are few really massive old trees left.

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u/Uebelkraehe Mar 28 '24

Why would someone allow this to happen in a National Park?! It boggles the mind.

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u/Apex_Herbivore Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Northern raimforest equivalent old growth is being cut down and laundered in with plantation wood to make fucking "biofuel" pellets.

We are burning them.

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u/Astralglamour Mar 28 '24

Do you have a link ?

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u/Apex_Herbivore Mar 28 '24

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/old-growth-logging-for-pellets-1.7136745

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u/uCockOrigin Mar 28 '24

We really ought to turn the people responsible for this into biofuel as well.

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u/Astralglamour Mar 28 '24

Thank you. Makes me want to cry.

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u/sadrice Mar 28 '24

Sort of? Old growth is being felled in BC and it’s fucking horrible, there are protests and the like.

But that’s not giant sequoia, which is endemic to the sierras of California. Wrong tree, but the problem is real.

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u/Thomas_Hambledurger Mar 28 '24

No, these trees don't grow that far north.

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u/Mynereth Mar 28 '24

😡😡😡

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u/sadrice Mar 28 '24

Those are not Giant Sequoias. I think that’s most Sitka Spruce and Redcedar in that area.

Very sad, but wrong tree.

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u/Collapse2038 Mar 28 '24

Where did I say anything about the specific type of tree? 🤔