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The Giant Spruce of Cape Perpetua

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Cape Perpetua

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The story of the Giant Spruce of Cape Perpetua (Picea sitchensis) began long ago. Half a century before Christopher Columbus sailed to the America’s, a tiny Sitka spruce began its life nourished by a nurse log on the Oregon coast. Today, it is the largest and oldest tree in the [...]

The Student Planter’s Grove

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Tillamook

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The Student Planters’ Grove (Pseudotsuga menziesii) came to life between 1949 and 1973, when an army of volunteers helped plant an estimated 72 million trees to reforest the Tillamook Burn—one of the largest forest replanting efforts in history. Here, in the area of Cedar Creek Flat, the new forest was [...]

Oregon’s Moon Tree

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Salem Moon Tree

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The Moon Tree (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is a Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir raised from a seed carried to the moon by Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa in 1971. 
Although Roosa was a native of Oklahoma, he was no stranger to Oregon. While in college, he worked summers here as a smoke jumper and as a surveyor.  Roosa [...]

The Ewing Young Oak

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The Ewing Young Oak (Quercus garryana) is named after Ewing Young, fur trapper and trader in the Southwest and Mexico, turned settler in the Chehalem Valley in 1834. He was the first American settler in the Oregon Country who was independent of aid from the Hudson’s Bay Company. His death on February [...]

The Sitka Spruce at Klootchy Creek

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The Sitka Spruce at Klootchy Creek (Picea sitchensis) was the first tree to be designated an official Oregon Heritage Tree and was once the biggest tree in Oregon and the National Co-Champion Sitka Spruce.  It germinated from a seed on the forest floor around the time of the signing of the Magna Carta in [...]