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Bird Creek Meadows. At breast height it has a circumference of 

 23 feet. It would take four men, each with arms outstretched and 

 touching hands, to encircle the tree. Experts estimate its age at 

 450 years. This tree was reported by E. P. Cecil, forest supervisor. 



A Sitka spruce near Soleduck River, on the Olympic National 

 Forest, has a circumference of 50 feet and a reputation at the time 

 it was measured for being "the largest living spruce yet reported" 

 in the North Pacific Region. Its top is broken off 150 feet from the 

 ground. This tree was reported August 4. 1919, By Forest Assistant 

 N. L. Carey, after a field trip connected with a Sitka spruce study. 



A later field report, part of a similar study, the results of which 

 have been published by the Department of Agriculture (28), tells 

 of a Sitka spruce in the vicinity of Quinault Lake, Avith a circum- 

 ference of 50 feet and a height variously estimated at 282, 285, and 

 296 feet. 



Large Sitka spruce trees on the Olympic National Forest were re- 

 ported from the regional office in a letter dated September 19. 1916, 

 giving measurements taken by Forest Examiner Hanzlik at Walker 

 Brothers operation, about 3 miles from Humptulips, in July 1914. 

 The three trees measured as follows: Height, 273 feet, and circum- 

 ference (breast high), 25 feet; height 269 feet, and circumference 

 (breast high), 29 feet; height, 243 feet, and circumference (breast 

 high), 28 feet. 



Statistics compiled by Ernest L. Kolbe. junior Forester. Pacific 

 Northwest Forest Experiment Station, include the Soleduck River 

 and the Humptulips Sitka spruces and others of notable size, among 

 them three, respectively, 279, 282, and 285 feet tall, which are located 

 in T. 29 N., R. 11 W.« in the Olympic National Forest, near the north- 

 ern boundary. 



A western yew (Taxus brevi folia) on the Hamma Hamma water- 

 shed, Olympic National Forest, with a breast-height circumference 

 of over 9 feet, is reported by Floyd L. Otter, instructor in the School 

 of Forestry of University of Idaho. Moscow, Idaho. 



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Mingo White Oak (38) near the head of Trace Fork of Pigeon 

 Creek in Mingo County, 10 miles south of Logan, is believed to be 

 the largest white oak in the United States. The age of this mountain 

 patriarch is estimated to be 577 years, and it is 145 feet tall. In 

 February 1932 Perkins Coville, of the Office of Silvics, Forest Serv- 

 ice, commenting on a report of the characteristics of the Mingo White 

 Oak, estimated that its circumference at the ground was 30 feet, its 

 over-all height 135 to 165 feet, and its volume 20,000 board feet. 

 (Death of this tree was reported by the State forester, May 4, 1938.) 



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A silver maple on the west bank of the Menominee River, near 

 soldiers' home grounds, in the vicinity of Milwaukee, has a circum- 

 ference of nearly 22 feet 1 foot from the ground and an estimated 

 height of 70 feet, It has been said of it that it is "probably the larg- 

 est tree in the vicinity of Milwaukee" {27). 



Twin white pines in the Nicolet National Forest (fig. 47), are re- 

 ported by Forest Supervisor Warren T. Murphy, who states that these 



