GIANT TREES OF WESTERN AMERICA AND THE WORLD

After retiring from his career as a plant biologist, Al Carder set out to find the giant trees that had transfixed him as a child. Discovering many of them felled by storms or loggers, he decided to document the remaining trees before they vanish from our memories and landscapes. His compilation is a definitive record of the West’s record-sized trees of all species, including legends like BC’s 400-foot Lynn Valley fir and California’s massive redwood, the Eureka Tree. Next, he set out to see how these trees compare to the great trees of the world.