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Big Lonely Doug | nature | A locally famous Douglas Fir tree located next to the Gordon River just north of Port Renfrew. By 2012, it was the only tree left standing in a 12 hectare cutblock. Its survival is due to a sympathetic decision made the year before by surveyor Dennis Cronin, whose task it was to mark for clear-cutting one of the last remaining old-growth forests of Vancouver Island. The Big Lonely Doug stands an astounding 66 metres tall and 12 metres in circumference. It is the second largest Fir tree in Canada.
Usage: “Few things are more simultaneously illustrative of our species’ folly and fancy than the Big Lonely Doug…”
