Terex Titan ~ Coast Redwood

This page is an off-shoot of Largest Coast Redwoods

Copyright 2009 by Mario Vaden

This redwood is called Terex Titan, in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. According to something written by Dr. Robert Van Pelt, I believe that the discoverers were Ron Hildebrant and Michael Taylor: the big redwood explorers. The name they gave refers to a 600+ ton General Motors truck with 3,500 horsepowers used for operations like copper mining in places like Utah.

For reference, 2009 data for Terex Titan redwood is 270' or 83.3 m high, 21.3' diameter, and 32,384 cubic feet wood volume. What you see below is the bottom of the pretty side, which has a small cave in the bottom. The other side has some damage to the bark, where some falling debris scaped against part of it. The shrub is a red huckleberry, a deciduous plant. Forest researcher Robert Van Pelt, wrote that Terex Titan probably had a structure very similar to Iluvatar many years ago before some breakage and sprouting of new reiterated stems overhead.

Richard Preston had written in a chapter called Newfound World that Sillett noticed an 8' tall Sitka Spruce growing in Terex Titan, on one of the limbs in the canopy. Terex redwood also is one of the few, if not only redwoods, where the lichen 'Fairy Puke' was found. A yellow-green & pink one.