M. D. Vaden | World Records, Discoveries and News

This page includes information pertaining to M. D. Vaden tree discoveries, world record finds and news. Most of them have their own full page and links are provided.

 

News | Discovery 2014 | USA Largest Known Coast Redwoods

Through 2014 to 2018 quite a few redwood giants were discovered in Redwood National and State Parks. The measurements proved several to become new largest known coast redwoods.

In 2014 and 2015 four new diameter champions were found for the same coast redwood species. The widest of these moved coast redwood ahead of all Sequoiadendron for the greatest known diameter in the USA.

One of these coast redwoods is estimated 4000 years or older, raising the question whether it could be the world's oldest tree with no way to ascertain the answer.

Read more: Year of Discovery

 

News | Discovery 2012 | USA Tallest Maple

October 2012, Mario Vaden measures "Humboldt Honey", a newly discovered tallest known maple. This Bigleaf Maple is the new USA and world height record for the Maple (Acer) genus. It was found July 19 2012, south of Eureka in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Read more: 2012 Maple Discovery

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News | World's Tallest Pines Discovered 2011

January 2011, Vaden joined Taylor to explore Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest for tall pine trees. The expedition yielded 4 new world's tallest pine trees (Ponderosa). The KGW story was written by Paul Fattig, January 23, 2011. Our mdvaden.com page has more details including further discovery by Taylor in the same area. The January 2011 story was also repeated locally in Portland by KGW news: KGW News Tallest Pine

Later in October 2011, the Ponderosa Pines were climbed and re-measured by Ascending the Giants. Read more: 2011 Pine Discovery

 

Discovery | 2011 - World's Tallest Hemlock
Found when the 2011 Tsunami from Japan hit our USA west coast. Read more: Record Western Hemlock Tsunami

Discovery | 2011 - World's Tallest Live Top Douglas Fir
Read more: Tallest Douglas Firs

Discovery | 2009 - World's Tallest Port Orford Cedar
Read more: Record Port Orford Cedar

 

News | World's Tallest Christmas Tree 2011

December 2010, Mario Vaden was contacted by Richard Stenger of the Humboldt Convention and Visitor's Bureau in Eureka, California, regarding Ferndale's live Christmas tree.

He met Richard from HCVB and drove to Ferndale to laser measure a 150 ft. tall Spruce. Meanwhile, Coeur d' Alene supposedly claimed to have the world's tallest Chrismas tree, a 160 ft. tall pine.

The Ferndale Spruce measured 151.25 feet.

This trigggered a food fight of news and claims measuring as Ferndale and Coeur d' Alene continued the rivalry between towns for which one really has the world's tallest living Christmas tree. All said and done, Ferndale took the crown. The Coeur d' Alene Press finally ran a story about all this in 2011. Apparently, Coeur d' Alene had exaggerated or incorrectly measured years earlier. and the additional rivalry resulted in extra measuring that showed the Idaho tree was shorter.

 

Discovery | 2011 | Falcon's Tower Sitka Spruce

Near Manzanita and Oswald West State Park. A contender for the Oregon champion Sitka Spruce. Read more: Largest Spruce Trees in Oregon

 

Photos below from the 2011 measuring of the world record pine near Grants Pass. In the top right photo, the climber is not ascending but traversing horizontally through the air about 200 feet up from another adjacent Ponderosa Pine that he is climbing in the left photo.