The Doerner Fir, also known as the Brummitt Fir, is a record-setting
Coast Douglas-fir
''Pseudotsuga menziesii'' var. ''menziesii'', commonly known as Coast Douglas-fir, Pacific Douglas-fir, Oregon pine, or Douglas spruce, is an evergreen conifer native to western North America from west-central British Columbia, Canada southward t ...
(''Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii'') in
Oregon
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, is one of the tallest known trees in the world which is not a
redwood
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(''Sequoioideae''), at .
The Doerner Fir was previously measured in 1991 at tall but had lost as of the latest measurement, in 2008.
It is approximately the same height as
Centurion
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, a specimen of ''
Eucalyptus regnans
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'' located in southern
Tasmania
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, and as the tallest known specimen of ''
Yellow meranti'' found in
Borneo
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.
The tree grows in a
Bureau of Land Management
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(BLM) forest in
Coos County.
The tree was previously named the Brummitt Fir after its drainage until it was renamed in honor of Ray Doerner, a
Douglas County commissioner and longtime BLM employee.
See also
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List of tallest trees
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List of individual trees
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List of superlative trees
The world's superlative trees can be ranked by any factor. Records have been kept for trees with superlative height, trunk diameter or girth, canopy coverage, airspace volume, wood volume, estimated mass, and age.
Tallest
The heights of th ...
References
Coos County, Oregon
Individual trees in Oregon
Individual Douglas firs
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