Western Redcedar - How to Identify Them! || Nerdy About Nature Tree Guide

Western Red Cedars are some of the most iconic and magnificent trees here in Cascadia, growing to be 60 meters tall, 6 meters wide and live to be around 2,000 years old! They are easily identifiable by their gnarled buttressed roots, long stringy reddish bark that peels off in strips, scaly overlapping needles and woody 'flower-like' seed cones. These trees face many different problems these days though, especially the older ones. A shifting climate with longer, hotter, drier summers has many of them dying out from not receiving the amount of water they need to survive, and extreme over-harvesting of our native forests for logging and forestry-products has resulted in less than 3% of these ancient forest ecosystems remaining today. Since these ecosystems take literally thousands of years to develop in the first place, once they are gone, they are essentially gone for the rest of humanities time on this planet...it's a pretty daunting reality that we're facing today. Find out what you can do to help protect these remaining big old Western Red Cedars: https://www.ancientforestalliance.org/ Like this vid? Help support Nerdy About Nature to make more engaging videos like this possible! || SUPPORT THESE VIDEOS :   / nerdyaboutnature   Follow along for more engaging fun-facts to make your next jaunt into the outdoors more rad! || SUBSCRIBE : http://www.youtube.com/NerdyAboutNatu... || IG :   / nerdyaboutnature   || FB :   / nerdyaboutnature   || http://www.NerdyAboutNature.com __________________________________________________ Big thanks to ecologyst for helping make this episode come together! They make some really rad, ethical clothes from natural materials locally here in Canada; perfect for getting out an exploring the world around us! Check them out at https://ecologyst.com/ __________________________________________________ Produced & Directed by Ross Reid Shot by Andi Wardrop ~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~ __________________________________________________ References: 'Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast' by Jim Pojar & Andy MacKinnon. Published by BC Ministry of Forests & Long Pine Publishing, Vancouver BC. 1994 'Northwest Trees: identifying & Understanding the Regions Native Trees' by Stephen F. Arno & Ramona P. Hammerly. Published by The Mountainers, Seattle, WA .1977