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Big Trees

September 11, 2019 by Bigfoot Trail Alliance 1 Comment

Big Tree Country – Section 12

Marble Mountain Wilderness – Section 12

The Bigfoot Trail celebrates the amazing trees of the Klamath Mountains. Outside of Redwood Country in coastal Del Norte County, the trees don’t get much more impressive than in Section 12 of the Marble Mountain Wilderness.

The preservation of lower elevation forests is rare in California. Exceptions are in several national parks including Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite. In California’s Klamath Mountains, several wilderness areas hold amazing stands on lower-montane conifer forests–especially the Marble Mountains were both Wooley Creek and North Fork Salmon River are preserved into elevation as low as 2000 feet.

The Mule Bridge Trailhead is 2900 feet.

In the upper reaches of the North Fork Salmon River, the canyon is oriented North-South and also at the terminus of several ancient glaciation events. This combination of soil and light (not to mention lots of winter rain and snow) cooks up the perfect recipe for big trees.

Big Trees of the Bigfoot Trail

What follows is a slide show of a few of the big trees along the Bigfoot Trail.

  •  Big Trees of the Bigfoot Trail
    Douglas-fir
  • Incense-cedar
  • Ponderosa pine
  • Sugar pine

Now for the bad news

During the 2017 Wallowa Fire, a crew was stationed in the canyon. They have free reign to make decisions about management but they also get bored apparently. When this happens, poor choices are made. A series of large, live trees were dropped in the name of “hazard” when in reality they were “trophy” trees for the crew. Sadly, these scars will remain for centuries.

This old-growth sugar pine was not a hazard during the 2017 Wallowa Fire, but was dropped for fun by the crew “protecting” the forest.

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Filed Under: Day Hike, Hiking, Marble Mountains Tagged With: Douglas-fir, incense-cedar, ponderosa pine, sugar pine

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