A grand fir tree on Selkirk College’s Silver King Campus was added to the BC Big Tree Registry earlier this week. It is now recognized as the largest grand fir in BC’s interior.
The Big Tree Registry is managed by the University of British Columbia. It’s a way of monitoring the largest trees of each species in the province and educating the public about them.
Jamie Moye, an adventure journalist who resides in Nelson, was the first to notice the tree and began the process of nominating it for the registry. She then reached out to Selkirk College to see if they would be interested in joining her on the project.
In a press release from Selkirk College Feb. 27, student Jaden Pearman was quoted saying, “when you are around a huge tree like that, it puts an emotion to the work we are doing.” Students from the Forest Technology program contributed by confirming measurements made by a biologist and naming the tree “Grandalf the Fir.”
