Sugar Pine the World’s Largest Pine Trees

A lot of people think ponderosa pine is the world's largest pine, but super pine get larger. They also have the longest cones, up to 24 inches long. I milled up a dead sugar pine tree into lumber and slabs on my Woodmizer LT15 sawmill. Some of the blue stained material was beautiful. After that video, by popular request from viewers, I will take you on a sugar pine tour showing you some of the sugar pine trees I have.
Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) grows in some parts of Oregon, California, a small area of Mexico and a small area in Nevada. It is a 5 needle pine, related to the white pines.
Here is the playlist for cutting down and milling that dead sugar pine into beautiful lumber and slabs.
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[@camperjack2620]

I'm proud to be part of this cluster of people who appreciate trees, logs, sawmills, firewood. I'm sure a lot of you watch many of the channels I do. Wilson, you make great videos sharing your understanding with us as well as special knowledge that can only come from experience. TY

[@leeobrien8638]

Family from Eureka CA years ago harvested what must have been Sugar Pine Cones. It was great to identify and learn about them! Thank you!

[@franek_izerski]

The idea that you can just buy a little paradise like this with all these wonderful treasures.

[@johnwebb6288]

I really like your channel. Don't change anything, you're doing a fine job as-is. This channel has become a favorite of mine. Thanks for the great content!

[@woodworker3122]

“Crusty don’t play that game”……one of the great lines used by Crusty The Clown.

[@ronharrington228]

I don't know if I was the only one who asked for this but thank you for doing it!!! Your explanation about the difference between fir and pine needles was interesting... I don't know why I hadn't thought to look for those differences... I hadn't realized how much difference there was in bark texture... Thanks again for putting this together!

[@WilsonForestLands]

It was you and I think one other. I appreciate the suggestions, I don’t always know what people find interesting.

[@lpeterman]

Talking about the size of the Sugar pine cones -- do you know the story of the 19thC. Naturalist/Botanist David Douglas ("Douglas-fir", et al.) When in SW Oregon, (1820's - 30's) was attempting to retrieve some of the cones for study, but they being 150' up, he could not reach them. So he began trying to shoot them from the overhead branches with his rifle, which in turn attracted some of the First Nations inhabitants... Good story.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I didn’t know that story. I will look it up and see if I can find it.

[@lpeterman]

@@WilsonForestLands Just Bing or Google "David Douglas shooting Sugar pine cones", or something similar.

[@triphopchill]

Beautiful forest! This was an excellent video about te different types of conifers on youre property, plus a lot of other information about the forest ecosystem. Thank you! We want to se more of these kinds of episodes. Best wishes from a viewer from Romania!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you for the comment, fun to know someone is watching from Romania. These type of videos usually don’t get as many views on my channel but I would like to do more of them. Thank you for the suggestion and encouragement.

[@user-scooter1965]

Excellent video, very educational. I enjoyed it very much h. You sure have a beautiful forest to enjoy.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks Scooter. Yep it’s a nice piece of woods here.

[@waltdelbo6445]

Great job. Loved it! Would much enjoy more specie identification and bios of your trees.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks Walt. It’s good to know people are interested in that subject.

[@edwinlikeshistractor8521]

Two of my kids graduated in forestry from OSU. You gave a much better silviculture lecture than they ever gave me. I will bookmark this for future reference. Thank you very much. Again, where your patreon tab? This is worth supporting!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you that was a very nice complement. I wasn’t planning on soliciting money from viewers but I will look into Patreon and maybe putting a link on my about page.

[@dgoodman1484]

Back before our cabin and the trees burned near the southern edge of Lassen NP, there were several world record class sugar pines and at least one giant redwood sized incense cedar all within easy walking distance. Best I could tell they didn’t survive. Hopefully they did but the devastation was so bad I haven’t been back. Incredible giants most wouldn’t believe. Well they were incredible before the fire or if it was that time of year the squirrels were trying to kill you dropping those green cones that would bury themselves a foot into that decomposed lava soil! lol 👍🏼

[@mrMacGoover]

Thats amazing!!😮

[@charliefryer5184]

I'm seeing this vid 8 mos after you posted. I would enjoy any walk in the wood you wish to take us along, teaching is good I need to learn things or I'll shrivel up sooner than I need to. We have whats called Red Cedar here in the NE flat land, we're only 1300 ish feet above sea level. I would like to learn your take on Cedar trees, I would find that interesting - love your sense of humor and sarcasm. I'm working my way through your catalog of videos and glad to be here. Wilson you to you, what ever you find interesting seems to interest us and thats how it should be. Rock on buddy. Charlie

[@Wheelloader__]

Very informative video Wilson. I’m coming out there to steel some of them sugar pine cones.

[@WilsonForestLands]

You can have them.

[@bigDH123]

Very interesting sir, I love to learn about nature.

[@joeyrector1015]

You put me in mind of myself. Like walking in the woods. That's something I love to do at times

[@WilsonForestLands]

Walking in the woods is good for the soul.

[@joeyrector1015]

@@WilsonForestLands right. I do agree. I love walking in the woods.

[@robertrice5272]

Great video thank you

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you for the comment.

[@joegrochowski669]

wonderful, thanks joe and misty,, please continue

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you Joe and Misty.

[@rakersdownnz]

Very enjoyable, I really enjoyed that, thanks so much.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I’m glad you enjoyed it, thank you for the comment.

[@MsdMakingSawDust]

That was one good educational video. We Enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. Take care

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it. Waiting for your next video to come out.

[@keithclark6122]

I always look forward to your videos. Congrats on 10k subscribers!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you Keith. I am at 9999, should be hitting 10K any minute.

[@vdsgw52]

Great job, very informative. Do more

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you, I appreciate the encouragement.

[@chuckwilliams9090]

Very interested in your story on different types of trees. Thanks.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you for the comment, I appreciate the feedback.

[@EdKeen-sr5xs]

Now lam not sure of anything but thank you

[@mikemraz8569]

Excellent informative video. Those sugar pines are great I wish I had some on my property, I have some nice ponderosa pine which I’ll be milling the end of May.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you Mike. Ponderosa pine are great trees too.

[@daleanderson6727]

Thank you great vid, I would be interested in a video about cedar species

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks Dale.

[@buzznatzke2996]

I have always likened Sugar Pines to big ferns or brackens. That’s just what they look look like to me from a distance.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I can definitely see that. One I am thinking of in particular very much fits that description.

[@TheOldManAndTheSaw]

Excellent video Michael. I learned a LOT. Easy way to tell cougar from fox scat is the taste. Try it and you'll find that I'm right.

[@lpeterman]

Eeewwww. Reminds me of the old gardeners tip: Put horse manure on your strawberries... I say, no thanks! I'll stick to whipped cream.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I will leave this discussion to the two of you. 😂

[@TheJhtlag]

@@lpeterman Funny though, went to a farm in Southern MD that just happened to make really good ice cream, you might say cow-to-cream. But of course, it's a farm so the air was redolent with cow manure so not sure how to say this but that manure did have a heady sweet smell to it while I was eating my ice cream cone. Interesting, not recommending it but was kind of an interesting (good) experience.

[@lpeterman]

Interesting, I will take your word on that. 🙂 @@TheJhtlag

[@dennisworkmansr.714]

This video was very informative, also when you add your wit and humorous talk to your videos is also entertaining. I'm trying to figure our where you are some where in Oregon not to far from Crator lake and possibly the town you go to selling your would might be Bend? I do enjoy your videos.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you Dennis. I am in the Medford area, other side of the hill.

[@danieljohnson8087]

Is there a video where you tell the size of your forest land? And how you acquired it? Thanks for the informative type videos like this

[@WilsonForestLands]

There isn’t one. I haven’t decided how much of those kind of details I want to make public. I can understand people wanting to know these things, I would too. I will probably put out that kind of information at some point.

[@SUF-py4ix]

Nice how tall were those you showed us?

[@Desert-Tan-Whiskey]

👍👍👍

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you 👍

[@margaretgray7944]

I am gonna buy a sugar pine tree,if I can find a source this year and plant it,hoping it will grow for me. I live in Spokane, Washington. ENJOYED THE VIDEO. I AM LIKE A KID IN A CANDY STORE, WHEN I GET TO SEE THE SUGAR PINE TREE. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR INFO.

[@grizz2702]

Up the road from me at sheep Creek we have a dougfur tree ..I measured the base .it was 33 feet around the base . The top broke off .the remaining tree was approximately 100 feet estimation. I was able to measure the broken top it was 175 feet

[@WilsonForestLands]

As the old loggers would say, that’s a punkin.

[@retiringrenegade9874]

What visible characteristics do white pine have!

[@WilsonForestLands]

We don’t have white pine here. The closest I have to that is sugar pine. I have a sugar pine video on my channel somewhere where I show a lot of the trees.

[@southernadirondackoutdoors]

Interesting. Question is, can you get your tractor to the standing dead douglas fir and sugar pine? Or maybe the cougar ate the fox and...

[@WilsonForestLands]

I can get the tractor close to the big fir. But it’s too big for the tractor to move, it’s rotten, with big knots, a good tree to leave for the wildlife. I could get it close enough to the Sugar Pine to reach it with the cable and a long extension. But the tree is not worth the hassle of it. It’s been dead for a couple years and it’s in steep terrain. The cougar may have ate the fox. I did find where one ate a coyote one time.

[@cabininthewoods7326]

Wilson do you have a greenhouse on the property to start seedlings or do you let the property grow naturaly?

[@WilsonForestLands]

One of the biggest problems with this property is there are too many trees. there is rarely any need to plant trees here. My greenhouse is for growing food.

[@lpeterman]

I name some of my eccentric/unique trees as well, (I find it helps reference specific areas or stands of trees, as in: "Big Doug" -- a 170'+, 160 + year old Douglas-fir on my east boundary, or "Old Oak" also on the east boundary.) Then again, I've been called 'eccentric' (read: crazy) by some of the Small Woodlands folks. Good to see your pal Jane Doe was nearby to supervise filming. Cheers from (still soggy) Linn County

[@WilsonForestLands]

I totally get it. Like saying up on the ridge by Krusty the Clown. Not soggy at all here now. Been a while since any moisture of significance.

[@greenktoo]

What's the age of the larger ones there with you?

[@RavensRidgeNC]

Curious - do you have enough sugars to harvest, or do you more harvest windfalls, or dead standings? I ask as in NC on my 7 acres, probably have a total 2 red cedars that are large enough to mill, hundreds of starts, but only the 2 or so that are large enough - and I'm inclined to let them be. Sure would be nice to have the lumber, but I can't abide the loss of the grandmothers.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I have enough to get a good harvest but I am leaving the big ones unless they die. Around here pine isn’t worth much. Now the mills mostly want Douglas fir. I could probably mill more of them and find markets for them but pine grow better here so I harvest more Douglas fir and leave the large pines to get bigger and make a better forest. If I ever catch up with the dying Douglas fir trees I might start thinning out and milling up some of the smaller pines.

[@buzznatzke2996]

Sugar pine is really nice to work, and quite different than other pines…it is less “grainy”, and whiter in color when freshly milled. It is also not as strong, but it finishes up beautifully. It also can take on a mottled gray/white that some find appealing (yours truly included).

[@raphlvlogs271]

looks like you have very poor and fast draining soil in your area depending on the types of plants that grow there (eg: quite a lot of Pacific madrones Arbutus menziesii)

[@Mike-oxlong1029]

To be honest I thought sugar pines were those puny little pines found in the south and south east. I had no idea that I was walking amongst them. I also wanted to know if you're planning to do a ground burn in order to burn off the duff on the forest floor. Thank you

[@WilsonForestLands]

I do some ground burning in some areas sometimes. I wanted to do some this year but didn’t get to it. A lot of places where things are clean enough not to be a fire hazard, I leave the duff to hold in moisture and control erosion. in some cases it can also suppress vegetation that could become a fire hazard. It all depends on the situation. Good question.

[@Mike-oxlong1029]

@@WilsonForestLands I'm glad you burn your forest. It seems like it's an option that is seldom used to the detriment of the forest where I live in the blue mountains. Theres quite a bit of disease and the termites are running rampant. There's even been some bark beetle action. Thank you for the video by the way

[@buzznatzke2996]

My great uncles were foresters in the southern Sierra for many years. They learned from their native friends to light a fire late in the season as they left the hills. Due to low temperatures, higher moisture, and frequency of burning, that the fires would just burn slowly through the underbrush, clearing away the downed wood and thinning out the trees. It kept the trees more healthy, the game animals more abundant, and made for much easier travel through the forest. Your land looks really healthy, as there is a good amount of space between the larger trees. Thanks for this informative video. Your knowledge is solid and conforms to what I learned growing up as well.

[@Mike-oxlong1029]

@@buzznatzke2996 I'm telling you man. It wouldn't be a bad idea to lease out some land on the perimeter and fire hotspots of National forest land to logging companies under the condition they burn and create barriers and lines along certain points. They are crazy good at land management. I've been a volunteer firefighter for quite a bit and I've never even heard of a fire on commercial timber claims. Logging companies get profit and the forest service gets a proactive measure to fires.