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Redwood National Park

Photos can do redwoods justice

Published by mdvaden on May 24, 2015

Over the years. I’ve read a lot of articles and image captions, where people claimed “photos cannot do justice for the redwoods”. The comments  often referred to photos falling-short of conveying size.  It may be that most of them do not know how to compose that type of image. But I realized that the bigger […]

Giant Coast Redwood Trunk

New diameter record 29.2 ft. wide

Published by mdvaden on May 22, 2015

May, 2015, John Montague from Humboldt, reported discovery of a new Coast Redwood diameter record. Joined by Zane Moore from from Colorado, they measured and confirmed a new diameter record of 29.2 ft.. That’s not down at ground level. The 29.2 ft. diameter was measured up at chest level, known as dbh. For girth comparison, the new […]