2- Western Red Cedar was the primary forest tree utilized by the First Peoples of Puget Sound, good for buildings, boats, and clothing.
Western Red Cedar
People have created across the United States lists of the largest individual tree of many species as well as typical size of each in a mature forest. They call the largest tree a CHAMPION TREE, for bragging rights.
Western Red Cedar
thuja plicata
Western Red Cedar
Typical dimensions of a large tree of this species in a mature forest:
Height:
Diameter:
Age:
Champion tree for this species:
Height:
Diameter:
Age:
130 feet
10 feet
800 years
230'
22'
1460 years
I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.
This tree species was growing at the Dolphin Place location when the property was purchased in 1973.
Exact data was not collected at the time. The following is data recorded in 2020.
Largest tree for this species within Dolphin Place Open Space:
Height:
Diameter:
90 ft
5 1/2 feet
CONES
NEEDLES
BARK
