I think its worth noting that before they were extensively logged, Douglas firs were the tallest trees in the world, with dozens of reliable accounts of over 400 foot trees and one specimen measured at 465 feet... after it was cut down. Its an exceedingly sad story, of all the lost giants of the Puget lowlands and western slopes of the Cascades.

Seeing photos of them cut down always upsets me. I've cried multiple times in my life over the Red Woods. I was lucky enough to get to visit and see them when I was very young (being from Virginia - hi from the Shenandoah again! - it was quite the trip out), they made an enormous impact on me.

Another cool self defense feature is how they react to storms. When facing strong winds from stormfronts, redwoods will whip and snap off the top portion of their form to protect itself from being blown over entirely. Not unlike a lizard dropping its tail when attacked by a predator, or a body shutting down extremities when facing frostbite. It’s a natural defense to protect the most important parts of an organism. An easy way to identify redwoods that have done this is to look for tops that have more than one stem. Like a hydra, after the top portion is broken off, redwood trees will regrow multiple stems out of the stub.

Your speaking of the fog belt & the emerald triangle. & not only trees grow big here any plant with a vegetative cycle, it's the soil & fog & amounts of sunlight this area has a perfect environment for plants & trees to grow.

The redwoods is one of the first memories I have in a national park. Such a beautiful place. Love your videos!

Location, location, location

0:58 Big Sur: Am I a joke to you?

My favourite trees, feels like you teleported back to the prehistoric 💚🌲

You should really consider being an interpretive ranger! They basically do what you do here, but on a much more frequent and repetitive basis! I was a seasonal interp for the NPS for a summer and really wished I could have used some of your videos as reference material when giving guided talks, creating social media content, etc.!

Good morning! Thanks for the tree vids!

Vapor canopy!!! It Has survived the cataclysmic events.

Hyperion is such an amazing tree

Another excellent video, Cameron, if KZfaq doesn’t work out, you should consider teaching. You have a wonderful ability to take what can be a boring and an uninteresting topic. And presented in an informative and entertaining manner. you have also improved your on camera personality. Your occasional adding of humor, improves the video and keeps the observer interested.

One fun fact about their importance to ecosystems is that when it does rain, they sprout new roots that grow up, specific to trap debris that maybe washed near them. They don't just persevere the hills they live on but add to them.

Great video! Being born and raised in the desert it makes sense! I work In Ketchikan Alaska (I’d love to see a video made on this island!) and all the trees are MASSIVE!! Here are a Couple video suggestions (to answer my own dumb questions) to utilize in this format 1) Why is the Teton valley so cold 2) why does the Great salt lake just end? 3) the Uinta mountains 4) Misty fjords national park. 5) Western impact of past growth. (I’ve noticed significant lack of trees in parts of Utah, where just around the corner of the mountain there is a significant amount, is this attributed to logging?) 7) why lake bonneville dried up? 8) what would the west look like if the sierras didn’t block the moisture. Love the videos! Keep it up!

Cool video. Another reason why they grow so tall is the geography. The largest grow on the canyon floors where water collects and the redwoods form a grove with a thick and rich organic layer on top of the soil. The resources and better protection allows the tree to grow larger in order to compete for sunlight in the deep canyons

I can’t wait to hear about your videos being used in classrooms! This one would be great for a lesson on osmosis.

I love all the books on your shelf.

These trees are do amazing! A must see in one's lifetime. Go

Another great vid . brother keep it up they make me want to go to all the parks

This probably has to be my most favorite video of yours so far. Mainly because I just love how unique the north pacific temperate rainforests are. I have read some of the comments and although I've seen it mentioned I feel obliged to mention it aswell. Pseudotsuga menziesii, or rather the coast variant, was and is to this day the tallest tree there ever was, and I feel like other large trees that come to be around the 100 meter mark for example Sitka spruce or, whilst not so tall, Western hammlock or western redcedar deserve some sort of recognition. This of course includes the douglas fir and eventhough it's not threatened currently, old growth stands are still under the threat of extensive logging. This is most notable on Vancouver island where the upper edge of where the douglas fir can grow is located. I feel like there aren't enough protected old growth stands. You do have the olympic national park which I think is very much worth talking about, but I'm still sad to see there isn't something like a Douglas fir national monument. I think it's definitely something you could mention in your future videos. Beside that I think your explanation towards why these trees do grow tall was very good, considering how wide the entire topic is and how much still isn't known. Another thing is, you could also make a video on sequoiadendron gianteum, the giant sequoia that grows only in a few places in the sierra nevada mountain range, which is also another hotspot for tall trees such like the ponderosa pine or sugar pine which both in some cases exceed the 80 meter mark and I believe are worth mentioning. Most of it is protected in national parks such as sequoia national park, kings canyon or yosemite but climate change seems to be its largest threat so far.

Good video! Love our forests!❤

You compile, organize, and present information masterfully.

With zones shifting, I'm curious if it would make sense to take advantage of the mist from Niagara Falls to create an inland redwood nursery.

Great video! My family and I are planning a trip to Redwoods NP this summer and I'm pumped for it! I also didn't know that trees released excess water from their leaves, I just assumed they only took what they needed.

You know many sequoia and redwoods have been planted in the U.K. and are thriving in our maritime climate

Location matters in its preservation, especially online. A picture and intigue can make a person reach their goals.

Thriving in the UK more than 500,000 growing brought in by seed collectors in the 1800s and our climate suits them ,although they have a lot of growing to do .

Excellent video! You truly are an amazing teacher ☺️

Couple of points regarding photosynthesis, plants do not transpire, they photorespirate. Demanding on what type of carbon cycle they use (one of three types, or a hybrid), photorespiration can lose a lot of water via the stomata, or much less. Desert plants especially use one of the latter two carbon cycles which reduces water loss and overall increases their photosynthesis efficiency.

I guess that's why my coastal redwood likes my area, its in the UK next to the coast.

Very well explained.

Redwoods are still being logged outside of national and state parks, there are natural regen stands of redwoods that have way more biodiversity than old growth stands and the trees are over 6ft. diameter, and over 200ft. tall at a little over 100yrs. of age.

Hope you have a lovely weekend,and i really enjoyed this lovely video of yours fan debs xx...

Great video thank you Just returned from 2weeks hiking various trails in the area Picked up a book from the Ranger Station in Jedediah Smith State Park called ‘ The Wild Tress’ Lots of great info on history of the area, the interesting characters involved, and detailed info on the biology and beauty of the forest themselves The temperate rainforests of the PNW are among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet As a resident of British Columbia ongoing logging of old growth is still an issue here 😂 the recent and on-going devastation in the Fairy Creek Watershed, southern Vancouver Island has been well documented

1:34 Phenomenon is singular. The word you were looking for is phenomena. Phenomena is plural.

Cool, BC Canada has the second tallest, Douglas Fir and Red Cedar, almost as tall, cheers

I live in far Southern California on a quarter acre suburban lot that gets 23 inches of rain a year on average but often 12 inches . The house was built in 1962 so tree is no older than that. I have a 100 foot tall coast redwood tree in my front yard 14 miles inland from Ventura.. It gets watered with the lawn and plants and occasionally a good hose soaking but nothing that shows up on my bill As we are on water restrictions now due to drought. All the red tail hawks come to my tree and plenty of owls. Between the desert type weather , cold every night due to radiant cooling , just open your windows and turn on a fan, snd the tree blocking the harsh sun, we have no Air Conditioning! The electric company sent people to test our meter, it was fine, and then changed it when we were not home later. They think the meter is bad or I am stealing juice.. everyone else in the area has electric bills in the hundreds ! We live on a flat lot but across the street is a large slope leading to a plateau so it is possible the water table from above passes under our house on the water to the river providing water. or our sewage line is broken from the roots !!!

The location of Hyperion is not a closely guarded secret. Anyone can get directions to the tree easily enough. The location is just not advertised.

That big tree in the video is a redwoods, yes, but not Hyperion. Hyperion is standing in an old groth forest

Sitka Spruce overlaps the range from south of San Francisco up to Kodiak Island, AK. Fog belt aids tall growth because fluids distill out nutrients as they pass to great heights. Fog brings in some of the nutriends to the top foliage where some nutrients cannot reach as they get distilled out after passing vascular surface area.

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I have Coast Redwoods living and thriving right next Sequoias (and Incense Cedars, pines and spruce) on my property in Nevada County at an elevation of 3100 feet. Interestingly enough, the Coast redwoods are very close to my well cistern which is of made of concrete and is two pieces with a seam in the middle. There is root intrusion into the cistern at the seam and I have on occasion drained the cistern to prune the roots! After watching your video, it led me to question if this is a possible reason my redwoods seem to be quite happy in this drier environment where they have discovered and are making use of my well water during the dry summer months. I would estimate the height of the redwoods at about 100 feet, whereas the Sequoia’s are probably about 50 feet taller, yet not quite as close to the supply of water. I was told what type of trees they were by a friend about a year ago, but discounted his observation, until another friend came to the same conclusion, independently. I had always said I feel like I live in my own private park, and now I have the justification to repeat it!

Thanks! Only there once, they are so massive it almost seemed to have its own gravity or aura when standing next to them.

What kind of root structures and what dimensions grow underneath these giants?

Apparently Giant Redwoods and /or Giant Sequoias(?) are growing amazingly well in Britain.. there are 600 planted from about 200 years ago(?) , we've lots of rain, fog, and coastline , perhaps many years from now the tallest one will be in Sussex?

ive seen videos of redwoods being chopped down though it was in oregon or washington if that means they can over there

Thanks for the great explanation of transpiration. Regarding the trees' longevity: You explained how they avoid death from wildfire, but what about extreme weather? Extended droughts, windstorms, California's famous floods? I would think that, over the course of two millennia, one or more of these threats would have killed the redwoods. Is there an explanation for this?

Redwoods are still being logged. They grow quite quickly.

6:30 thanks for the video water steam has higher specific heat than boiling water. The property of water here allows it to go from lower to higher elevation. Similar to this, perhaps a better substance could be developed to be lifted from lower to higher elevation? This would be helpful for running low powered devices, and on a larger scale, it would boost efficiency of all sort of machines. Heat pumps have efficiency of 3x resistive heating thanks to low boiling point of refrigerants. Of course the machine to take advantage of this substance would not be trees.

I have been growing some in Maryland since 2006. they are not that tall yet maybe 20 feet I expect in maybe 20 years it will grow faster when it gets near the top of the canopy. but they only get partial sun , but I honestly didn't think they would survive more than a couple of years because I heard they cant survive cold temps, while Maryland along the Coastal Plain isnt really a cold climate state we do have a few days in a row as cold as 7 degrees F

Nice video but you forgot to mention that what plants really crave is brawndo

Great video, except in California, we don't have fog. We have the marine layer, which is exactly fog, but we don't call it that.

Bro I was watching this on 2x speed and it sounded normal 😂 May I petition you to speak a bit faster? That, or KZfaq should add speeds up to 3.5x like Audible

All those trees chopped down in the early days is tragic.

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Thank you brother for the knowledge everything God makes is so awesome & complex

Resistant to fire, captures vast amounts of water... no wonder california is burning and dry

2 million acres of forest isn’t that large when you consider how much forest is in the PNW.

Just a few seconds into the video you mention Hyperion and show a picture of a tree that is not Hyperion.

It helps to be nice to the locals I know where Hyperion is 😂

The protection is there but not in all areas of redwood growth. Absence of chainsaw is incorrect.

six DUNE THINGS OMG

Since this is a much more technical and scientific video and and less "heres a fun story about our parks" I feel the need to be technical in return. Thereof, 10:23 is REALLY the important part to me. So important in fact that who cares about Redwoods, this is the reason nearly ALL coastal forests of N-Cal, Oregon, Washington, BC and Alaska are (or were) filled with giants. Many trees have roots in the air that can collect water from fog. Im not sure if, botanically speaking, any of our PNW trees technically do that, but botany is dumb, ecology is cool, and we know they take that fog right from the sky. If you've ever walked around in a NW rainforest you'll find ferns, sometimes shrubs, and occasionally WHOLE OTHER TREES growing from limbs and burs right out of the side of OTHER MASSIVE trees. Theres soils that form right up on the branches of many of these trees. Where theres soil, you can find roots, and while Im not sure these trees technically have botanically-sound roots up there, the branches can act like it, to get water from higher altitudes already. Botany is dumb anyway, Ecology is cool. Obviously the higher your starting point, the higher you can grow. I've seen it mentioned in other comments tho, never by name, the MASSIVE Douglas Fir that was cut down, far taller than any known Redwood, its name is The Nooksack Giant (heres a OPB video that mentions it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNCWapp0vMCYpZ8.html ) and I dont think it was the only one. N-Cal is special because it has a much more mild, tho nearly as wet, climate as most of the Coastal PNW. We get redwoods a good ways into Oregon but, honestly, most of them arent terribly more impressive than a Western Red Ceder, which, mind you, are VERY impressive trees (but we're already talking about impressive trees, its all relative). A hardier species, like Douglas Fir doesnt care about your cold, actually they dont seem to care about anything.... including gravity it seems. The forest floor is cool, and deserves a lot of attention, but in our Pacific Northwest, theres just as much happening above you as there is next to you. Whole ecosystems in the sky, in those patches of soil. Amphibians, bugs, millipedes, other trees and shrubs that live they're entire life 100's of feet above the forest floor.

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That’s a fake photo of the Hyperion

I used to live in the redwoods. I miss it in a deep soul way. I want to be buried there, where my ocean and my trees meet. 🌲

Related question: Why can't they grow further north into Oregon and Washington when they get more rain? Bonus Fact: The largest Douglas Fir was 393ft (119.8m) tall and was the tallest tree in the world, but it was sadly chopped down in 1930

The national park service:ya you can visit general Sherman the world's largest tree it is super strong and won't be damaged by you unless a huge fire happens. Also the national park service:no don't go visit Hyperion the world's tallest tree you will damage the tree and it's habitat even though closing the tree off to the public causes even more damage to people trying to visit it and opening it up to the public an setting up an official trail would work This would work perfect for the one buddy doge vs wimp doge meme

Im never gonna live down how the earth is quite literally as fascinating mysterious and adventurous as any lord of the rings movie or zelda game. But a LOT of it was logged and paved over by older generations, the things older folks have taken from us and then expect us to fix is unbelievable, especially when its the same kind of people who turn around and act like its are fault for not working hard enough to fix issues like sprawl deforestation and climate change while they sit on there suburban lawn where an old growth forest used to live, with so many animals trees and shrubs we just wont see again unless its an overpriced gentrified vacation. I even live somewhere with unbelievably beautiful nature, but then theres the whole issue with older folks arresting or shooting you for hiking in the woods (im not joking) …Im depressed now, im gonna go watch geo girl or professor dave explains or something

Conifers growing along the coast? Makes no sense.

Good video, but it could have been five minutes long. In the future, work on trimming the fat and cutting right to the chase.

why dont they make new tree holes for the co2. dum plant

Well, the location of Hyperion isn't really a secret, and its coordinates are easy to obtain with a quick Google search. It is true however, that the area around this tree is fortunately off-limits