Trees are remarkably important for human beings, animals, birds, and several living creatures. We must preserve them from deforestation. As we all know the Gardon River Valley of Vancouver Island British Columbia, Canada there is the second-largest Douglas-fir tree in Canada after the Red Creek Fir in nearby San Juan Valley.
Big Lonely Doug is a large coastal Douglas-fir tree, it is named after its species, the Douglas-fir stands tall among a clearing, an isolated representation surrounded by stumps and logging debris. It rises about 230 feet high and its trunk is as big as a living room. Local conservationists estimate it to be between 750 and 1,200 years old.
Saved by a woodsman, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada. 2018 published book “Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees” by Harley Rustad, was based on this tree. The extraordinary tree lives more than any living creature could ever exist to live that long if we assumed as Local conservationists estimated.
A tree climber dangles from Canada’s second-largest Douglas-fir tree, Big Lonely Doug, one of the 54 old-growth trees protected under a new Forest Act protection measure implemented by the B.C. government.
