Finding the Kootenays’ biggest trees: Biologist mapping the region’s forest giants
Biologist Rosie Wejenberg feels right at home walking beneath the huge cedars in an old growth forest near Russell Creek in the West Kootenay.
The list has about 600 trees on it, most them in the southwestern part of the province. The largest tree in the registry is known as the Cheewhat Giant, a western red cedar on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The registry does not have specific qualifying criteria, in terms of the diameter of the tree, because two trees of the same age and species will grow to different sizes, depending on whether they are in a valley bottom or at higher elevation, or at the coast or in the interior. A small tree can be older than a large one of the same species, depending on the geography.Inclusion on the UBC list does not come with any form of protection from logging.
There is no direct connection between the UBC Big Tree Registry and the new regulation. Sutherland says most of the trees on UBC’s list would not qualify for protection because of the regulation’s restrictive criteria. When a tree is accepted into the ministry list of protected big trees, a one-hectare buffer must be left around the tree .Wejenberg says the regulation’s list of qualifying species is too restrictive.
For example, a western red cedar with a diameter of more than 290 centimetres in the interior of B.C., or a Sitka spruce greater than 283 centimetres anywhere in the province, would be protected.
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