Vancouver Island Big Trees

A large diameter fallen tree along Upper Goldstream Trail in Goldstream Provincial Park. Over hundreds of years the fallen Western red...

Detail of signage in Cypress Provincial Park describing the importance of wildlife trees

The huge Douglas-fir snag took out a branch of a Bigleaf maple on the way down On a recent trip up Sooke River road to Sooke Potholes Pa...

One giant, old growth large diameter snag Up the Sooke River in a not-so-secret location , lies one of the largest Douglas-fir snags I ha...

This giant Douglas-fir snag makes a perfect scaffold for the moss Fluorescent green flashes catch my eye whenever I am out in the forest...

The Coopers Cove/Saseenos area of Sooke is a thickly forested rural area with outstanding old growth trees spread throughout the hillsides a...

This is actually a huge, short snag that is broken off just up from the top of the photo. The massive bole lies down the slope to the right,...

Snags, or standing dead trees, like the one near the center of the above photograph, provide food and shelter for a richness of life. Birds ...

Another semi-permanent feature of Billing Spit is this large chunk of tree left over after logging sometime in the distant past. More than l...