Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A 325 foot Douglas-fir (not ...

The Doerner Fir tree, one of the world’s tallest, caught fire and has sustained damage that could lower its global ranking. The fire has not yet spread to the surrounding coastal Oregon wilderness but ...

When Brian French learned last week that the Doerner Fir was burning, he could think of only two reasons why: Either lightning had struck the enormous conifer in coastal Oregon — or someone had set it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management, the top of the Doerner Fir tree’s trunk smokes in Coos ...