Nooksack Giant
The Nooksack Giant was a superlative Coast Douglas-fir that grew at Loop's Ranch in Maple Falls in Washington State. It was felled in the 1890s. The tree was measured with a tape after felling at tall, and in circumference. It produced more than 96,000 board feet of lumber. The New York Times regarded the tree in a March 7, 1897 issue as the "most magnificent fir tree ever beheld by human eyes" and called its destruction a "truly pitiable tale" and a "crime". The Morning Times of February 28, 1897 said that the wood, sawed into one-inch strips, would reach from the tree's location to China.
