Vancouver Island Big Trees

This ancient cedar is on one of my favourite bike rides along the Sooke River. These trees are hard to age, but this one could be pushing...

Ancient Western Red-cedar close to Bamfield It will be 22 years this month since my first visit to the wilderness of Vancouver Island...

Red alder grows in pure stands, as shown, or in mixed forest settings Red alder (Alnus rubra) is the most common deciduous tree in the P...

Often the big trees in the Pacific coastal forest become the celebrities. It is not difficult to see why as champion trees can be as wide as...

"Giants like this will not be seen again for five or ten centuries, perhaps never." Randy Stoltman, Big Trees (1987) photo: h...

I was touring one of my favourite big tree haunts recently when I spotted thissssss beautifully patterned forest resident. It reminded me th...

A magnificent hardwood species is mixed among the monumental softwoods of the Pacific forest. The Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) is a c...