Mount Baldy Douglas Fir
Rocky Mountain Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca)
Rocky Mountain Douglas-Fir
About this verified tree
Fat and Balding Fir is a Rocky Mountain Douglas-Fir recorded at Mount Baldy Trail, south of cell tower near Pincher Creek. It stands out as one of the oldest known living trees in Alberta. Its trunk size gives it exceptional circumference for Alberta. Nominated by Terry Nelson, a board member and Interior BC representative for the UBC Big Tree Registry and author of Big Trees of the Inland Temperate Forests of British Columbia.
- Species
- Rocky Mountain Douglas-Fir
- Scientific name
- Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca
- Area
- Alberta
- Circumference
- 5.97 m
- Height
- 19.20 m
- Canopy spread
- 20 m
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Fat and Balding Fir is a Rocky Mountain Douglas-Fir recorded at Mount Baldy Trail, south of cell tower near Pincher Creek. It stands out as one of the oldest known living trees in Alberta. Its trunk size gives it exceptional circumference for Alberta. Nominated by Terry Nelson, a board member and Interior BC representative for the UBC Big Tree Registry and author of Big Trees of the Inland Temperate Forests of British Columbia.
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