An Unfortunate Loss

ID: 573 ~ Source: https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/nature/bigleaf-maples-of-english-camp.htm ~ Creator: The National Parks Service ~ Date: 1969

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The loss of two of the tree's branches while certainly unfortunate is not what cost the tree the title of largest. A larger tree in Oregon just happened to have been found and measured later that same year.

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The Big Leaf Maple – Third Largest Big Leaf Maple Tree

By Devrick Barnett

Big Leaf Maple trees (Acer macrophyllum) are some of the oldest living organisms on the San Juan Islands, living to be well over two hundred years old. The English Camp Big Leaf Maples were standing on the Island long before the camp was built,…