Vancouver Island Big Trees

This mossy mushroom patch was on the shake roof of a gazebo. The photograph was taken at Francis King Regional Park, Saanich B.C., on the El...

Western red and yellow cedars are the longest lived trees in the ancient coastal forest. Many of these eon-busting trees have been documente...

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 ...

An epiphyte is a plant that grows upon another plant (such as a tree) non-parasitically. Big leaf maples provides a scaffolding for moss, ...

One of the moss-covered, deeply fissured, centuries old Douglas firs in the Heritage Grove of Francis/King Park. Francis/King Regional Park ...

This is the biggest Douglas fir I have found within the Sooke, B.C. town boundary . It is a healthy, robust s pecimen that is easily sever...

CRD , conservation groups buy controversial Jordan River lands By Judith Lavoie , Times Colonist March 5, 2010 The Capital Regional Distri...

The Victoria Times Colonist reported troubling activity around the world's largest known Douglas fir, back in January . Close to the Red...