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The Big Fir Christmas Card
The Douglas fir is a widely distributed western tree. It grows naturally throughout the Rocky Mountains, from their eastern base to the Pacific Coast and northern New Mexico and Arizona to British Columbia. It attains its largest size near sea level in the coast region of Southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and on the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
This giant, overly mature, Douglas fir was dropped with the aid of a hydraulic jack to keep the tree from toppling down a steep hillside which would shatter the tree, destroying much of its commercial value.
Three hundred twenty-five foot heights have been recorded with trunk diameters of 10'-17' and trunks often clear of branches for a third of their height.
The tree is rather a botanical puzzle for it bears a stong resemblance to spruce as well as to hemlock and yew. Accordingly, the botanists went to the Greek to describe it as a "false hemlock with a yew-like leaf."
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