Big Sitka Spruce
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:31 pm
I mentioned this in a thread about tops in the "Guitars" forum. Here is a photo of me beside a 1000+ year-old (it has been cored to determine its age) Sitka Spruce at Windy Bay in Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the west coast of British Columbia. This is the place where the Haida people took a stand against rampant logging, and, after a long period of negotiation, resulted in the establishment of Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve ("Reserve" because the Haida have never ceded title to this land.)