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Coastal redwood, sequoia replace
ast week’s column dis-
cussed the Archangel
Ancient Tree Archive’s
project to transplant clones of
genetically superior giant se—
quoias and coast red- ‘
woods around Puget
Sound. Branch tips
Fortunately, according to
Michael Dolan of Onalaska’s
Burnt Ridge Nursery, giant
sequoia and coast redwood will
establish even in part shade.
Giant sequoia (Se-
quoia sempervirens)
was once so valued
of millennia—old trees for lumber that today
have been painstak- only 176 square miles
ineg rooted in a lab to of old—growth forest
start new trees, and exist, much of which
these are being dis- is in patches. Without
tributed throughout contiguity old-growth
Western Washington. forest is like Microne-
The thinking By ALEX sia: endangered tiny
behind this orbits FETHIERE islands isolated by
climate change and
carbon sequestration.
If, as some scientists
anticipate, the Douglas fir will
eventually find this region in:
hospitable, other trees of sirni—
lar value must take its place.
Assuming that regions
continue to warm and suffer
anomalous weather patterns,
a northward migration of tree
species and their symbionts
is inevitable. Entire arrays of
interrelated species might be
moving up here.
Some grumble about the
humans who were first in this
exodus. Californian conditions
that used to favor the giant se-
quoia and coast redwood have
changed, just as our circum-
stances for the Douglas fir are
in flux. ,
In hedging our bets we have
to ask what use these trees
have, and what will ease their
transition into a new home.
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rising seas. Prosperity
and diversity in such
an imperiled archi-
pelago is almost impossible.
Giant sequoia is able to re-
generate and self—propagate so
' as to maintain stands of itself,
possibly creating the founda—
tions of a new old-growth for-
est. Ifcarbon sequestration is
your aim, plantations of giant
sequoia are the world’s most ef-
ficient, according to a study by
Humboldt State University and
the University of Washington.
This paper also found that
“in wet, nutrient-rich habitats,
old-growth sequoia forests yield
more decay-resistant heart-
wood annually than any other
vegetation.” If you’re planning ,
to timber it, growing it in plan-
tations with unlimited water
and nutrients yields, unsurpris-
ingly, “maximum wood produc-
tion.”
Unfortunately, this use of
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This was the second of the first two coast redwoods
planted at Ocean Mountain Ranch on a remote hill-
side south of Port Orford, Oregon,
in 2012. Photo
courtesy of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive
these trees outside of regenera-
tive forestry is economically
and logistically speculative.
Redwoods show promise for
CLT (cross—laminated timber)
and both trees have excellent
decay resistance, but they don’t
develop such resistance until
they’re too old to interest log-
gers.
Mixing sequoia in with exist-
ing stands of Doug fir is a good
idea because the heartwood of
sequoia resists decay for cen-
turies and supports a range of
symbionts, like hemlocks or
evergreen huckleberries sprout—
ing fiom pockets of decay in it
—- much as the latter does from
Western red cedar. ‘
Burnt Ridge’s Dolan ob-
serves that the decay resistance
of both trees, as with Western
red cedar, develops only beyond
the growth cycles used by the
logging industry. Ifquick-yield
rot-resistant wood is your aim,
chestnuts are the best choice.
We’ll return to them later.
Leaving a few giant sequoia
in a stand of timbering trees
provides a refuge for canopy
biota that help the develop-
ment of your next generation’s
trees of interest. Happy critters
might seem more Disney than
practical, but consider that truf-
fles growing in stands of Doug-
las fir improve growth rates
and timber quality and that
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they are propagated by forest
rodents. Never mind that these
truffles are inherently valuable
if you can find them!
Speaking of fungal associa-
tions that benefit trees, there
are formulae of myco'rrhizal in-
oculants that can be applied to
provide the networks that help
trees find water, obtain nutri-
ents and possibly even com-
municate. Ifthese take to their
environment, they improve
establishment and growth of
trees, but this is controversial.
For now, suffice to say that
Don Smith, volunteer at Arch-
angel in Michigan, claims excel-
lent results establishing giant
sequoia and coast redwood with
Great White’s catchily-named
“PRPSGW04 100049823” My-
corrhizae. Good thing we’d be
ordering that online and not
asking for it in stores.
I will be using these trees to
add diversity to distributions
of big-leaf maple, Douglas fir,
Western red cedar and hem-
lock. Since my plan includes
oaks andchestnuts, these tow-
ering trees must be carefully
placed.
To volunteer for planting
contact Archangel Ancient
Tree Archive on Facebook
or email Dave Pearsall at
lowerpugetsound@comcast.net.
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