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Big Lonely Doug is a large Coast Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii) tree located in the Gordon River Valley of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is the second largest Douglas-fir tree in Canada after the Red Creek Fir in nearby San Juan Valley.


History

The tree was seeded sometime around 1000 CE. In 2011, logger Dennis Cronin discovered the enormous tree while surveying a patch of forest that was to be logged for timber. He wrapped green ribbon around the tree with the words "Leave Tree" repeated along the ribbon, saving it from being felled. In 2014, photographer and activist T.J. Watt happened upon the tree and named it "Big Lonely Doug", a play on the tree's species name and its relative isolation amid the clearcut. The tree has since become a symbol of nature conservation in Canada, and was featured in the 2018 book ''Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees'' by journalist Harley Rustad.


Dimensions

These measurements were made by forest ecologist Andy MacKinnon on behalf of the
Ancient Forest Alliance The Ancient Forest Alliance is a grassroots environmental organization in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in January 2010, and is dedicated to protecting British Columbia's old growth forests in areas where they are scarce, and ensuring ...
and University of British Columbia on 18 April 2014. The results were published the following week on 24 April 2014.


See also

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Boole George Boole (; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Irel ...
- a giant sequoia whose immediate surroundings were also clearcut *
List of individual trees The following is a list of notable trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as ...


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Drone footage of Big Lonely Doug, August 2016
{{Douglas firs Individual Douglas firs Individual trees in British Columbia Juan de Fuca region