{"id":6245,"date":"2021-03-04T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=6245"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:30:39","slug":"oregon-big-tree-shrub-measurements","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/oregon-big-tree-shrub-measurements\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Big Tree &#038; Shrub Measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6247\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/JB-408x528.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/JB-408x528.png 408w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/JB-375x486.png 375w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/JB.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/>The world champion Douglas-fir in height is found in Coos County, Oregon.\u00a0 But what if your interest lies in smaller trees?\u00a0 For example, the tallest vine maple (<em>Acer circinatum<\/em>) in the country is 46\u2019 high and found in Clatsop County, Oregon.\u00a0 This detail, along with many, many others can be found in \u201cOregon: Big Tree &amp; Shrub Measurements\u201d by Jack Black.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, this book may seem like a curiosity, one person\u2019s obsession with finding, measuring, and photographing (typically with a convenient human standing nearby for scale) the largest and tallest of the Oregon flora.\u00a0 However, the charts and especially the photographs gave me strong admiration of the diversity of woody plants in both wild and managed settings.<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 200 species considered are almost evenly divided between natives and introduced species.\u00a0 Short vignettes give the back story for some of the more remarkable examples.\u00a0 Although Black compiled and published this book, his endnotes document the work of many individuals and organizations in finding, measuring, and recording these special trees.\u00a0 It represents a real labor of love by all involved.  A new, larger edition was published in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Spring 2021 issue of the <em>Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world champion Douglas-fir in height is found in Coos County, Oregon.\u00a0 But what if your interest lies in smaller trees?\u00a0 For example, the tallest vine maple (Acer circinatum) in the country is 46\u2019 high and found in Clatsop County, Oregon.\u00a0 This detail, along with many, many others can be found in \u201cOregon: Big Tree &amp; Shrub Measurements\u201d by Jack Black. At first glance, this book may seem like a curiosity, one person\u2019s obsession with finding, measuring, and photographing (typically&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/oregon-big-tree-shrub-measurements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oregon Big Tree &#038; Shrub Measurements<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[365,266,22],"class_list":["post-6245","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-native-plants-oregon","keyword-pseudotsuga-menziesii","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/6245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}