Westridge Giant Coast Redwood .. # 13

Copyright 2010 - 2019 by Mario Vaden

Westridge Giant is the 13th largest known coast redwood (2010). Located in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park down a stretch of Westridge trail. A stocky 244 foot tall redwood with a 23 ft. dimater dbh trunk that holds 29,541 cubic feet (2010). This one grows on a relatively flat area of forest floor rather than a slope or creek bank. It is rarely spoken about among redwood enthusiasts who look around the parks for for various titan size redwoods. It may be because the big burly base is hidden by lots of shrubs. The men in this photo are from Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, the ones who clone tissue from larger redwoods for propagation. They were only out in this park that day to see the world's tallest hemlock and we detoured to show them this redwood.

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The men date this photo at 2011, the year the hemlock Tsunami was discovered. I called Michael Taylor to see the hemlock, and he was networking traveling with these men at that time.