Photo: Giant Spruce (<i>a second marker beside this one</i>)

Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 3, 2015
Caption: Giant Spruce (a second marker beside this one)
Additional Description:
This Sitka Spruce is over 15 feet thick and was 225 feet tall until a windstorm in 1962 broke off the top 35 feet. It started its life over 500 years ago as a seedling growing on top of a fallen, decaying log and into the ground in search of more water and nutrients.

When moisture, insects and fungi had completely broken down the nurse log, the tree remained, its roots forming a natural tunnel.

Sitka Spruce grows in a four-mile wide zone along the Pacific coast, from Northern California to Kodiak Island in Alaska. The wood is light and strong and was valuable during World War I for building airplanes.
Submitted: February 21, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p417123
File Size: 6.012 Megabytes

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