Big Lonely Doug, perhaps the loneliest tree in Canada, stands in the middle of a clear-cut on the west coast of Vancouver Island, surrounded by a field of huge stumps.

Big Lonely Doug by Harley Rustad explores the history of the Douglas fir, old growth forests, and the danger of clearcut logging ...

They gave it a name: Big Lonely Doug. The tree would also eventually, and controversially, be turned into the poster child of the Tall Tree Capital of Canada, attracting thousands of tourists ...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. - As trees go, it is one colossal conifer. Tape measures confirm that a Douglas fir tree on Vancouver Island is officially the second-largest in Canada ...

That's one big tree. Dubbed "Big Lonely Doug", this Douglas-fir is the second largest tree of its species (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in Canada.Forest ecologist Andy MacKinnon, who runs the B.C. Big ...

"On the surface, the story of Big Lonely Doug is a pretty simple one: it's one guy, one tree and one small action. The big challenge for me was taking this pretty simple story that fits perfectly ...

Harley Rustad is a features editor at The Walrus and author of Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees. In 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin stood under one of the largest ...

The province is home to 50 different tree species and for some of those species we have the world’s largest specimens. We have the largest trees in Canada by far and ours are almost as big as the ...

Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees by Salt Spring Island-born, Toronto-based Harley Rustad is about one of them. | Big Lonely Doug is the second-largest tree in Canada.

The tree that was named “Big Lonely Doug” was found standing alone among dozens of giant stumps in a 20-hectare clearcut area that was logged two years ago near Port Renfrew.

Dubbed “Big Lonely Doug” by those who found it, it takes 11.91 metres of tape to wrap round the base of the enormous evergreen and at the top, the tree’s canopy spreads 18.33 metres across.

Doug owes his survival to a logging company surveyor who – for reasons unknown – wrapped a ribbon around its massive trunk on which were written the words “Leave tree”. “Big Lonely Doug ...