Sugar Pine the World’s Largest Pine Trees

NEVADA.. means SNOW.. sorry bud!!.. YUP your in MEXICO.

Back before our cabin and the trees burned near the southern edge of Lassen NP, there were several world record class sugar pines and at least one giant redwood sized incense cedar all within easy walking distance. Best I could tell they didn’t survive. Hopefully they did but the devastation was so bad I haven’t been back. Incredible giants most wouldn’t believe. Well they were incredible before the fire or if it was that time of year the squirrels were trying to kill you dropping those green cones that would bury themselves a foot into that decomposed lava soil! lol 👍🏼

What visible characteristics do white pine have!

Thats amazing!!😮

I really like your channel. Don't change anything, you're doing a fine job as-is. This channel has become a favorite of mine.
Thanks for the great content!

I'm seeing this vid 8 mos after you posted. I would enjoy any walk in the wood you wish to take us along, teaching is good I need to learn things or I'll shrivel up sooner than I need to. We have whats called Red Cedar here in the NE flat land, we're only 1300 ish feet above sea level. I would like to learn your take on Cedar trees, I would find that interesting - love your sense of humor and sarcasm. I'm working my way through your catalog of videos and glad to be here.
Wilson you to you, what ever you find interesting seems to interest us and thats how it should be. Rock on buddy.

Charlie

Wilson do you have a greenhouse on the property to start seedlings or do you let the property grow naturaly?

Beautiful forest! This was an excellent video about te different types of conifers on youre property, plus a lot of other information about the forest ecosystem. Thank you! We want to se more of these kinds of episodes. Best wishes from a viewer from Romania!

Very informative video Wilson. I’m coming out there to steel some of them sugar pine cones.

looks like you have very poor and fast draining soil in your area depending on the types of plants that grow there (eg: quite a lot of Pacific madrones Arbutus menziesii)

Love the ramble, everything from morels to how trees protect themselves from fires. Headed out to Oregon in a week - will keep an eye out for Sugar pines now - I'm an east coast guy so this will be a big help, wasn't really even aware of sugar pines, five needles, like white pines, like bristlecone pines. And very knowledgeable, Yeah, there are no true (native) cedars in the Americas; like a lot of things, eg Buffalo, Buzzards, pronghorn Antelopes and yeah, cedars all named by pioneers for familiar things in the old country...and the names stuck. I think there's a passive effort to get people to use the (I won't say correct) biologically consistent names but on the other hand, the new names have figured poetically in American literature.

I have always likened Sugar Pines to big ferns or brackens. That’s just what they look look like to me from a distance.

Thank you great vid, I would be interested in a video about cedar species

Excellent video, very educational. I enjoyed it very much h. You sure have a beautiful forest to enjoy.

That was one good educational video. We Enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. Take care

Great job. Loved it! Would much enjoy more specie identification and bios of your trees.

Curious - do you have enough sugars to harvest, or do you more harvest windfalls, or dead standings? I ask as in NC on my 7 acres, probably have a total 2 red cedars that are large enough to mill, hundreds of starts, but only the 2 or so that are large enough - and I'm inclined to let them be. Sure would be nice to have the lumber, but I can't abide the loss of the grandmothers.

Two of my kids graduated in forestry from OSU. You gave a much better silviculture lecture than they ever gave me. I will bookmark this for future reference. Thank you very much. Again, where your patreon tab? This is worth supporting!

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Is there a video where you tell the size of your forest land? And how you acquired it?
Thanks for the informative type videos like this

Very interested in your story on different types of trees. Thanks.

Very enjoyable, I really enjoyed that, thanks so much.

Great job, very informative. Do more

I don't know if I was the only one who asked for this but thank you for doing it!!! Your explanation about the difference between fir and pine needles was interesting... I don't know why I hadn't thought to look for those differences... I hadn't realized how much difference there was in bark texture... Thanks again for putting this together!

Talking about the size of the Sugar pine cones -- do you know the story of the 19thC. Naturalist/Botanist David Douglas ("Douglas-fir", et al.) When in SW Oregon, (1820's - 30's) was attempting to retrieve some of the cones for study, but they being 150' up, he could not reach them. So he began trying to shoot them from the overhead branches with his rifle, which in turn attracted some of the First Nations inhabitants... Good story.

I name some of my eccentric/unique trees as well, (I find it helps reference specific areas or stands of trees, as in: "Big Doug" -- a 170'+, 160 + year old Douglas-fir on my east boundary, or "Old Oak" also on the east boundary.) Then again, I've been called 'eccentric' (read: crazy) by some of the Small Woodlands folks. Good to see your pal Jane Doe was nearby to supervise filming.
Cheers from (still soggy) Linn County

Excellent video Michael. I learned a LOT.
Easy way to tell cougar from fox scat is the taste. Try it and you'll find that I'm right.

I always look forward to your videos. Congrats on 10k subscribers!

wonderful, thanks joe and misty,, please continue

Up the road from me at sheep Creek we have a dougfur tree ..I measured the base .it was 33 feet around the base . The top broke off .the remaining tree was approximately 100 feet estimation. I was able to measure the broken top it was 175 feet

You put me in mind of myself. Like walking in the woods. That's something I love to do at times

Excellent informative video. Those sugar pines are great I wish I had some on my property, I have some nice ponderosa pine which I’ll be milling the end of May.

Great video thank you

To be honest I thought sugar pines were those puny little pines found in the south and south east. I had no idea that I was walking amongst them. I also wanted to know if you're planning to do a ground burn in order to burn off the duff on the forest floor. Thank you

Interesting. Question is, can you get your tractor to the standing dead douglas fir and sugar pine? Or maybe the cougar ate the fox and...

This video was very informative, also when you add your wit and humorous talk to your videos is also entertaining. I'm trying to figure our where you are some where in Oregon not to far from Crator lake and possibly the town you go to selling your would might be Bend? I do enjoy your videos.