Sugar Pine the World’s Largest Pine Trees

[@NLH350Powered]

You sir are like the Paul Herrell of forestry! I'm glad to have found your channel!

[@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

[@jefff6167]

You create some of the best videos on the internet. I always learn something new from your videos and I always smile. Sometimes I get a joyful belly laugh too. God Bless you, you make a positive difference in this world.

[@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!

[@erikpearson5310]

I appreciate the description of all the different type of trees. I find all the differences really interesting

[@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!

[@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.

[@maxswenson6605]

I was in the lumber distribution business for 35 years and sold a lot of Sugar Pine over that time. Beautiful clear pine and very expensive, but it was the only product that would do for my most selective customers.

[@franek_izerski]

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

[@TitlisBusyKitchen0]

I learned something today! Wonderful video. TY

[@goldenratio5117]

I counted 7 around my property today. They are awesome, with huge cones. Im at 2800' just outside Tahoe Forest. I named my big one "Chief" and plan to build a lookout tower in it.

[@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.

[@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.

[@tcsadt]

Enjoyable walk and talk.

[@wyliedank3868]

This video was so interesting! My all time favorite tree is the Ponderosa, but now a close second is the Sugar Pine. Thank you for the exclamation.

[@Forgeinthegorge]

Digging the Silvaculture lessons - keep it coming!

[@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.

[@Sal-e1b]

thanks for the tree identification. Great info & presentation. Thoroughly enjoying the channel.

[@joegrochowski669]

wonderful, thanks joe and misty,, please continue

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you Joe and Misty.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@chuckwilliams9090]

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

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you for the comment, I appreciate the feedback.

[@Mattytube18]

I’ve heard you mention about cedar in North America not being a cedar in another video. Did you ever make a video specific to cedars? If not, I’d love to learn more, Bob!

[@VegasEdo]

I once hiked through a pine valley and cones were dropping like crazy. Watching the tree tops, there were several squirrels knocking the cones out. Thankfully these were 2-3 inch cones not 13-18 inch cones.

[@daleanderson6727]

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

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks Dale.

[@Gfthce3426]

Yes very interesting ' anything you can teach about the trees and all the forest is great to learn . Really enjoying all your video's but love the teacher talk.

[@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

[@jtcorey9498]

I need to find a channel similar to yours , but with an emphasis on northern hardwood forests in New England.

[@Wheelloader__]

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

[@WilsonForestLands]

You can have them.

[@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.

[@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.

[@squidnoid8]

A very informative video. Thanks for posting

[@mackellyman5642]

Excellent content. Didn't notice any moss on the north side of the trees?

[@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.

[@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.

[@bigDH123]

Very interesting sir, I love to learn about nature.

[@CharlesJones-wi7tz]

The Whelan Tree (a sugar pine) was the largest true pine ever known. It was nearly 12 feet in diameter.

[@rakersdownnz]

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

[@WilsonForestLands]

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

[@mrMacGoover]

Thats amazing!!😮

[@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.

[@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).

[@woodworker3122]

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

[@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

[@bob_frazier]

If you're going to talk forestry, yes, please discuss your species in depth. Everyone of them has their own special niche.

[@SmallWonda]

Really interesting, anything to do with identifying conifers and trees is of great interest to me. I shall also pass this on to my Dad in England who has planted trees from around the world & they are his favourite things. I have grown a few different conifers from seeds - which can be a bit of a trick when you don't know what they are! I'm in Tasmania, so many of my conifers originate from many places around the world, which makes IDing things even more challenging! I'm pretty sure I have four Ponderosa pines, they are probably 6-years old now & probably 10/12' high - maybe taller. They have the needles in 3s and the bark is starting to have a jigsaw-look to it. SO I was very interested to see the comparisons to the sugar pine - we have been tree-spotting in your neck of the woods & driven around Crater Lake. I think I have a Fraser Fir and then some kind of cypress, or what you'd call cedar - the small twigs I note are barbed - I don't know if that would be a helpful identifier? Quite vicious really if you tried to tug on them with your hands. 2 of them are around 7-years old, the one close to 20' high - I'm guessing it could be a Leyland... I shall check out some more of your videos in case you deal with my ponderings! Neat property you have there with some fine trees - could you show a Manzanita tree with red peeling bark, it's one of my favourites? Thanks a lot.

[@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.

[@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.

[@robertrice5272]

Great video thank you

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you for the comment.

[@vdsgw52]

Great job, very informative. Do more

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you, I appreciate the encouragement.

[@rodevans602]

Great video… Thank you! Subscribed…

[@EdKeen-sr5xs]

Now lam not sure of anything but thank you

[@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.

[@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.

[@SUF-py4ix]

Nice how tall were those you showed us?

[@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 👍🏼

[@greenktoo]

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

[@bob_frazier]

The Archie Creek fire in Douglas county killed so many Sugar Pines, the USFS cut them down and left them to rot. It's not my happy place.

[@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.

[@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.

[@bob_frazier]

I've heard that Australia had some Eucalyptus that may have approached 400'. Gone now.

[@patdriver5696]

I personally measured the dbh of a pinus Lambertiana that was over 18 ft. It was lightening-struck, so it was only about 5o ft tall. Its in Sierra County at Brandy City.

[@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)

[@Dustin_the_wind]

I honestly wouldn't mind if you always squeeze in tree identification facts. I need the repetition. And oh, you know those squirrels know you're taking their work done and food. They'll be chattering at you something fierce.

[@Imabadfisherman]

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.

[@Imabadfisherman]

@@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.

[@Imabadfisherman]

@@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.