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Two Thousand Years
Ancient Douglas-fir trees at the Grove of the Patriarchs, Mount Rainier National Park. Both are over one thousand years old, and have just barely enough remaining foliage to keep them alive. One was truncated by a storm; the other has a dead crown. -
Grove of the Patriarchs Trail
Mount Rainier National Park -
Ancient Cedar
Western Red Cedar at the Grove of the Patriarchs. (The broad bright leaves at lower right belong to another tree that is intertwined with the cedar). -
Ancient Cedar
Western Red Cedar at the Grove of the Patriarchs. -
Vine & Cedars
Vine Maple (foreground), western red cedar (background), in the Grove of the Patriarchs