Zane Moore, Tall Trees Club
The Abino Guy
Continued from: Coast Redwoods Main Page
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Copyright 2020 by Mario Vaden
The first time I met Zane Moore, was July 5, 2010, in Prairie Creek redwood park, along with his parents and sister. He was in high school at the time, later enrolling in college.
What I recall the most about Zane, was his enthusiasm for albino redwoods. He bacame a Plant Biology Ph.D. student at U.C. Davis studying mutations in plant cells, and received his B.S. in Botany from Colorado State University.
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Images: Zane Moore standing by the elk meadow at Prairie Creek park, and near a large coast redwood with his family in the same park. The red truck and blue trailer in the background was my camping rig in those days.
Zane's pet project may be albino rewoods, but he has strong interesting in general knowledge and science pertaining to trees and growth. His pre-college and college years exploring were mostly in California, but that's logical due to close proximity and an abubance of forest.
He found various new tallest for various hardwoods, and a few tallest for softwood evergreen conifers for regions.
One of several articles about Zane and the albino redwoods is:
THE MYSTERY OF GHOST TREES MAY BE SOLVED
The Washington Post article also mentions Tom Stapleton. Together, Tom and Zane have been exploring for and studying albino redwoods. If you search one or both names together, you can follow more of their adventures.
Zane often interacted on the "ENTS" ore Eastern Native Tree Society forum. Here's an excerpt from almost 8 years ago in 2012, related to new hardwood height records when he first started scouting, but gives an idea what some height discoveries looked like back in that day in case any of you wonder what sort of height to look for if you get the urge to go out scouting.
California Sycamore (Platanus racemosa) (Updated June 2, 2012) Height & dbh in feet
178.20', 3.93'
169.10', 4.03'
164.33', 2.57'Bay Laurel (Umbellularia californica)
165.33', 4.38', Roaring Camp
158.87', 2.02', HCRSP
155.5', 3.13'Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus)
162.02', 2.33' - FNMSP
158.09', 4.03' - BBRSP, large single stem
157.3', 2.60' - FNMSP
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