• the biography of a Douglas-fir, Tree: A Life Story, was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki's home?

Facts on topics related to Douglas-fir

Fir

• the extinct fir species Abies milleri, known from Early Eocene fossils (pictured) found in Ferry County, Washington, is considered the oldest confirmed record for the fir genus?

Pine

• children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?
• Chroogomphus (pictured) is an edible mushroom that grows as a parasite on other fungi in pine forests?
• Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?
• during filming of The Emperor Waltz in Jasper National Park, director Billy Wilder had California pines planted on location because he was unhappy with the look of the native trees?
• the pine trees for which the community of Pine Grove, Oregon, was named were cut down in 1957?
• the specific name of the newly described fungus Suillus quiescens refers to the ability of its spores to lay dormant in the soil until pine roots are encountered?

Larch

• the Milan–Venice railway line crosses the Venetian Lagoon on a 222-arch bridge built on 80,000 piles of larch wood?

Coast Douglas-fir

• most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?