My dad thought we elk hunters are bad.... now he considers fisherman way worse.
Some call 'em Kauri (Agathis australis) but most of us down here in the Pacific South East call them shrubs. Occasionally, two of us dangle from choppers hanging onto a powerhead each on the end of a double ended 12' bar so we can cut the tops out for roosting platforms for our native birds called Kiwis.
150' isn't tall. Heck, even my dog can spin yarns taller than that
Stunningly beautiful wood. Photos don't do it justice as they seldom pick up the warmth and effervescence or whitebait figure it can have. Sometimes a bit soft though. They built houses, boats and furniture from it back in the day. Can be thousands of years old. Last year, I was cutting logs that were growing when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Story goes a tsunami or massively high winds flattened large forests of these ancient trees tens of thousands of years ago and they lay in peat and swamps, preserved (without actually petrifying to any great extent - it still has it's grain structure intact and is often just like cutting a green log and sometimes it has a tannin stain to it that gives it a dark and brooding mood) and now we dig 'em out and sell em' off to mainly the Chinese as fast as we can get them out of the ground (which is not all that fast if they are monsters - as in 90 cubic metres of lumber from just one log kind of monstrous, although most are not that big).
