Nooksack Giant

It was felled in early 1896 on the Alfred Bruce Loop Homestead with a crosscut saw by a team of men at the North Fork of the Nooksack river.

Several photographs and photo engravings were taken of the tree's cross section while it was displayed for several years after its cutting, which are on file in the Whatcom County Museum, and in digitally archived news reports and lumber journals.

[5][6] The Morning Times of February 28, 1897 claimed that the wood, sawed into one-inch strips, would reach from "Whatcom [the tree's location] to China".

[8] One grove in particular located within an eighth of a mile of the railroad tracks, along the Nooksack river, south of present Everson was noted, "in all reasonable probability, the finest group of fir trees west of the Cascade Mountains.

A single tree near the group rises perfectly straight from the ground, close barked and without a blemish, full two hundred feet or more to the first limb.