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  1. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    That's a nice one, alright. The ones we have here are close, but not as big as that one. She's a real beauty.
  2. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Looking forward, Reg. Now, I know just enough about flying them Aerial Camera Platforms thingies to get'em hung up in the trees. Unnerving indeed. I found out it's a good thing to have your climbing gear with you, on them shoots. Camera rescue!
  3. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    When writing those books about the parks I did some in-depth research on the people that made it possible, along with hiking the trails through the parks, which took years and lots of blisters to cover. There's a lot more out there than most people realize, and rather than cry over what was...
  4. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Back in the day, Save the Redwoods League, aka the crazies, consisted of the crust of American society. Aristocrats, railroad tycoons, oil men, Timber and Lumber Barons, educators, land developers, and politicians. Across the nation these pillars of industry and society pooled their money to...
  5. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Kevin, it's that historically good forest practice has always been trumped by corporate greed. Another thing is sometimes clear-cuts are the best way to re-establish a healthy forest after a disease or insect infestation, and major fires. No, 'One prescription fits them all'. Good forest...
  6. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Yeah, Butch, the rocks are still in my shoes. Not near as bad, it seems, but then after 11 years I might just be getting use to it, too. On another note, my heart meds, or maybe it's just getting old, but something is making me narcoleptic. I can be wide awake one second and fall...
  7. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Great vid, Reg. thanks. I can see in the future you doing a a lot great things with that new 'drone' of yours. Actually I prefer "aerial camera platform" Drone has a bad connotation to it. But that's just me. Sean, after seeing what natural disasters do around the world, and here in...
  8. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Whenever I drive through the mountains and see the thousands of acres of burned and bug killed forest, as far as the eye can see, all natural of course, I think of the many people that get all fired up over a little 40 acre clearcut logging plan. I can honestly say, I have never seen a...
  9. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Jim, The PNW was a mosaic landscape long before the European's showed up. Between the ice age, volcano's, forest fires, massive floods, tidal waves, pestilence and disease it never was a contiguous forest here. It's always been a patchwork quilt of mostly young forests trying to reach an...
  10. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Douglas fir. All one tree. Better than 7 foot on the butt. Along the Neeland road, just south of Lone Star Junction. Not a mill-able log in it, but she's a real beauty.
  11. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    A beauty for sure
  12. gf beranek

    Champion Trees

    Pure Beauty and Wonder to behold. I'd like to see it up close and personal myself. good write up in Wiki about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Juniper
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