What type of grand fir is found in Washington State and Northern California?
Monte Cristo Natural Area Preserve Monte Cristo Natural Area Preserve in Klickitat County, Washington is part of the Washington Natural Areas Program. It protects 1,151 acres in the eastern Cascade Mountains owned by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. The landscape includes grand fir and Douglas fir forest, dry grassland, and shrubland with patches of Oregon white oak - Frémont silktassel chaparral.
Kiidk'yaas Kiidk'yaas (meaning "ancient tree" in the Haida language), also known as the Golden Spruce, was a Sitka Spruce tree ("Picea sitchensis" 'Aurea') that grew on the banks of the Yakoun River on the Haida Gwaii archipelago, in British Columbia Canada. It had a rare genetic mutation that caused its needles to be golden in colour (rather than the usual green). Kiidk'yaas was considered sacred by the Haida people.