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	'''''Pinus strobus''''', commonly called the '''eastern white pine''', '''northern white pine''', '''white pine''', '''Weymouth pine''' (British), and '''soft pine'''<ref name=USFS>{{FEIS \|type=tree \|last=Carey \|first=Jennifer H. \|date=1993 \|genus=Pinus \|species=strobus \|access-date=12 August 2013}}</ref> is a large [[pine]] native to eastern North America. It occurs from [[Newfoundland (island)\|Newfoundland]], Canada, west through the [[Great Lakes region]] to southeastern [[Manitoba]] and [[Minnesota]], United States, and south along the [[Appalachian Mountains]] and upper [[Piedmont (United States)\|Piedmont]] to northernmost [[Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia]] and very rare in some of the higher elevations in northeastern [[Alabama]].<ref name="PLANTS">{{PLANTS\|symbol=PIST\|taxon=Pinus strobus\|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref> It is considered rare in [[Indiana]].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Plants Profile for Pinus strobus (eastern white pine) \|url=https://~~www.~~plants.usda.gov/~~core/~~profile?symbol=PIST \|access-date=2020-10-07 \|website=www.plants.usda.gov \|archive-date=2020-08-28 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828231143/https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIST \|url-status=live }}</ref>		'''''Pinus strobus''''', commonly called the '''eastern white pine''', '''northern white pine''', '''white pine''', '''Weymouth pine''' (British), and '''soft pine'''<ref name=USFS>{{FEIS \|type=tree \|last=Carey \|first=Jennifer H. \|date=1993 \|genus=Pinus \|species=strobus \|access-date=12 August 2013}}</ref> is a large [[pine]] native to eastern North America. It occurs from [[Newfoundland (island)\|Newfoundland]], Canada, west through the [[Great Lakes region]] to southeastern [[Manitoba]] and [[Minnesota]], United States, and south along the [[Appalachian Mountains]] and upper [[Piedmont (United States)\|Piedmont]] to northernmost [[Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia]] and very rare in some of the higher elevations in northeastern [[Alabama]].<ref name="PLANTS">{{PLANTS\|symbol=PIST\|taxon=Pinus strobus\|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref> It is considered rare in [[Indiana]].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Plants Profile for Pinus strobus (eastern white pine) \|url=https://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=PIST \|access-date=2020-10-07 \|website=www.plants.usda.gov \|archive-date=2020-08-28 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828231143/https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIST \|url-status=live }}</ref>

	The [[Haudenosaunee]] maintain the tree as the central symbol of their multinational confederation, calling it the "[[Tree of Peace]]",<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Graymont \|first1=Barbara \|title=The Iroquois \|date=2009 \|publisher=Infobase Publishing \|page=21 \|quote=The tree had four symbolic roots, the Great White Roots of Peace, spreading north, east, south, and west. If any other nation ever wished to join the League, it would have to follow the White Roots of Peace to the source and take shelter beneath the tree. Atop the tree, he placed an eagle to scream out a warning at the approach of danger. He symbolically planted the tree in the land of the Onondagas, the place of the Grre, the confederate lords, or peace chiefs, would sit beneath it and be caretakers of the Great Peace.}}</ref> where the Seneca use the name '''''o’sóä’'''''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Chafe \|first1=Wallace \|title=A Grammar of the Seneca Language \|date=2015 \|publisher=University of California Press \|isbn=978-0-520-28641-2 \|page=18 \|url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/North%20American/Iroquoian/Seneca%20Language%2C%20A%20Grammar%20of%20the%20%28Chafe%29.pdf}}</ref> and the [[Mohawk people\|Kanienʼkehá:ka]] call it '''''onerahtase'ko:wa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Mohawk Basic Knowledge \|url=https://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> Within the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]], the [[Mi'kmaq]] use the term '''''guow''''' to name the tree,<ref>{{cite web \|title=Pine \|url=https://www.mikmaqonline.org/servlet/dictionaryFrameSet.html?arg0=pine&method=searchFromEnglish \|website=Mi'gmaq-Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary \|publisher=Listuguj \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> both the [[Maliseet\|Wolastoqewiyik]] and [[Passamaquoddy\|Peskotomuhkatiyik]] call it '''''kuw''''' or '''''kuwes''''',<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Francis \|first1=Kmihqitahaman David A. \|last2=Newell \|first2=Kmihqitahaman-ona Wayne A. \|title=Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal \|url=https://pmportal.org/dictionary/kuw-ku-1 \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> and the [[Abenaki]] use the term '''''kowa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=White Pine \|url=http://westernabenaki.com/dictionary/white_pine.html \|website=Western Abenaki Dictionary \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref>		The [[Haudenosaunee]] maintain the tree as the central symbol of their multinational confederation, calling it the "[[Tree of Peace]]",<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Graymont \|first1=Barbara \|title=The Iroquois \|date=2009 \|publisher=Infobase Publishing \|page=21 \|quote=The tree had four symbolic roots, the Great White Roots of Peace, spreading north, east, south, and west. If any other nation ever wished to join the League, it would have to follow the White Roots of Peace to the source and take shelter beneath the tree. Atop the tree, he placed an eagle to scream out a warning at the approach of danger. He symbolically planted the tree in the land of the Onondagas, the place of the Grre, the confederate lords, or peace chiefs, would sit beneath it and be caretakers of the Great Peace.}}</ref> where the Seneca use the name '''''o’sóä’'''''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Chafe \|first1=Wallace \|title=A Grammar of the Seneca Language \|date=2015 \|publisher=University of California Press \|isbn=978-0-520-28641-2 \|page=18 \|url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/North%20American/Iroquoian/Seneca%20Language%2C%20A%20Grammar%20of%20the%20%28Chafe%29.pdf}}</ref> and the [[Mohawk people\|Kanienʼkehá:ka]] call it '''''onerahtase'ko:wa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Mohawk Basic Knowledge \|url=https://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> Within the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]], the [[Mi'kmaq]] use the term '''''guow''''' to name the tree,<ref>{{cite web \|title=Pine \|url=https://www.mikmaqonline.org/servlet/dictionaryFrameSet.html?arg0=pine&method=searchFromEnglish \|website=Mi'gmaq-Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary \|publisher=Listuguj \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> both the [[Maliseet\|Wolastoqewiyik]] and [[Passamaquoddy\|Peskotomuhkatiyik]] call it '''''kuw''''' or '''''kuwes''''',<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Francis \|first1=Kmihqitahaman David A. \|last2=Newell \|first2=Kmihqitahaman-ona Wayne A. \|title=Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal \|url=https://pmportal.org/dictionary/kuw-ku-1 \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> and the [[Abenaki]] use the term '''''kowa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=White Pine \|url=http://westernabenaki.com/dictionary/white_pine.html \|website=Western Abenaki Dictionary \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref>
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	The eastern white pine has been described as the tallest tree in eastern North America, perhaps sharing the prize with the deciduous [[Liriodendron tulipifera\|tulip tree]] whose range overlaps with eastern white pine in a few areas. In natural [[pre-colonial America\|precolonial]] stands, the pine was frequently reported to have grown as tall as {{cvt\|70\|m\|ft}} or more. No means exist for accurately documenting the height of trees from these times, but eastern white pine may have reached this height on rare occasions. James Brown of [[Arniston, Midlothian\|Arniston]], a forester and later Inspector of Woods and Forests, [[Port Elgin, Ontario]], Canada wrote in 1882:		The eastern white pine has been described as the tallest tree in eastern North America, perhaps sharing the prize with the deciduous [[Liriodendron tulipifera\|tulip tree]] whose range overlaps with eastern white pine in a few areas. In natural [[pre-colonial America\|precolonial]] stands, the pine was frequently reported to have grown as tall as {{cvt\|70\|m\|ft}} or more. No means exist for accurately documenting the height of trees from these times, but eastern white pine may have reached this height on rare occasions. James Brown of [[Arniston, Midlothian\|Arniston]], a forester and later Inspector of Woods and Forests, [[Port Elgin, Ontario]], Canada wrote in 1882:

	''“In its native habitats this pine grows to very large dimensions. We have measured many of them as they lay felled on the ground and taking a number of them we found the stems average 150 feet long by 2 feet 9 inches diameter at 5 feet up from the bottom. This may be taken as an average of the size of the trees as they stand in their native parts ; but we have found many of them that measured 210 feet long with stems from 5 to 7 feet in diameter at 4 feet up from the bottom and on counting the annular layers on the stumps from which they were cut we found them to range between 350 and 425 which may be taken as representing the years of their age.”''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Brown \|first1=James \|title=The Forester: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General Management of Forest-trees \|date=1882 \|publisher=William Blackwood and Sons \|location=Edinburgh and London \|page=341 \|edition=5th \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymIDAAAAYAAJ~~&pg=PA341~~&dq=pinus+strobus+210+feet+length+lay&hl=~~en&ppis=_c&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIz-SCn4LnAhVQgp4KHbTwApsQ6AEwAnoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false~~ \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>		''“In its native habitats this pine grows to very large dimensions. We have measured many of them as they lay felled on the ground and taking a number of them we found the stems average 150 feet long by 2 feet 9 inches diameter at 5 feet up from the bottom. This may be taken as an average of the size of the trees as they stand in their native parts ; but we have found many of them that measured 210 feet long with stems from 5 to 7 feet in diameter at 4 feet up from the bottom and on counting the annular layers on the stumps from which they were cut we found them to range between 350 and 425 which may be taken as representing the years of their age.”''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Brown \|first1=James \|title=The Forester: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General Management of Forest-trees \|date=1882 \|publisher=William Blackwood and Sons \|location=Edinburgh and London \|page=341 \|edition=5th \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymIDAAAAYAAJ&dq=pinus+strobus+210+feet+length+lay&pg=PA341 \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>

	Even greater heights and diameters have been reported in numerous early town and county histories, lumber journals, and popular, but unverifiable, accounts such as Robert Pike's ''Tall Trees, Tough Men''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Pike \|first1=Robert E. \|title=Tall Trees, Tough Men \|date=1999 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|location=New York , London \|isbn=0-393-31917-2 \|page=23 \|edition=3rd \|url=https://~~www~~.google.com/books~~/edition/Tall_Trees_Tough_Men/D_doBQAAQBAJ~~?hl=~~en&gbpv=1~~&dq=robert%20pike%20tough%20men%20tall%20trees%20pine&pg=PA23~~&printsec=frontcover~~ \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>		Even greater heights and diameters have been reported in numerous early town and county histories, lumber journals, and popular, but unverifiable, accounts such as Robert Pike's ''Tall Trees, Tough Men''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Pike \|first1=Robert E. \|title=Tall Trees, Tough Men \|date=1999 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|location=New York , London \|isbn=0-393-31917-2 \|page=23 \|edition=3rd \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_doBQAAQBAJ&dq=robert%20pike%20tough%20men%20tall%20trees%20pine&pg=PA23 \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>

	Total trunk volumes of the largest specimens are around {{cvt\|28\|m3}}, with some past giants possibly reaching {{cvt\|37\|to\|40\|m3}}. Photographic analysis of giants suggests volumes closer to {{cvt\|34\|m3}}.{{citation needed\|date=March 2023}}		Total trunk volumes of the largest specimens are around {{cvt\|28\|m3}}, with some past giants possibly reaching {{cvt\|37\|to\|40\|m3}}. Photographic analysis of giants suggests volumes closer to {{cvt\|34\|m3}}.{{citation needed\|date=March 2023}}

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	'''''Pinus strobus''''', commonly called the '''eastern white pine''', '''northern white pine''', '''white pine''', '''Weymouth pine''' (British), and '''soft pine'''<ref name=USFS>{{FEIS \|type=tree \|last=Carey \|first=Jennifer H. \|date=1993 \|genus=Pinus \|species=strobus \|access-date=12 August 2013}}</ref> is a large [[pine]] native to eastern North America. It occurs from [[Newfoundland (island)\|Newfoundland]], Canada, west through the [[Great Lakes region]] to southeastern [[Manitoba]] and [[Minnesota]], United States, and south along the [[Appalachian Mountains]] and upper [[Piedmont (United States)\|Piedmont]] to northernmost [[Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia]] and very rare in some of the higher elevations in northeastern [[Alabama]].<ref name="PLANTS">{{PLANTS\|symbol=PIST\|taxon=Pinus strobus\|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref> It is considered rare in [[Indiana]].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Plants Profile for Pinus strobus (eastern white pine) \|url=https://~~www.~~plants.usda.gov/~~core/~~profile?symbol=PIST \|access-date=2020-10-07 \|website=www.plants.usda.gov \|archive-date=2020-08-28 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828231143/https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIST \|url-status=live }}</ref>		'''''Pinus strobus''''', commonly called the '''eastern white pine''', '''northern white pine''', '''white pine''', '''Weymouth pine''' (British), and '''soft pine'''<ref name=USFS>{{FEIS \|type=tree \|last=Carey \|first=Jennifer H. \|date=1993 \|genus=Pinus \|species=strobus \|access-date=12 August 2013}}</ref> is a large [[pine]] native to eastern North America. It occurs from [[Newfoundland (island)\|Newfoundland]], Canada, west through the [[Great Lakes region]] to southeastern [[Manitoba]] and [[Minnesota]], United States, and south along the [[Appalachian Mountains]] and upper [[Piedmont (United States)\|Piedmont]] to northernmost [[Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia]] and very rare in some of the higher elevations in northeastern [[Alabama]].<ref name="PLANTS">{{PLANTS\|symbol=PIST\|taxon=Pinus strobus\|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref> It is considered rare in [[Indiana]].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Plants Profile for Pinus strobus (eastern white pine) \|url=https://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=PIST \|access-date=2020-10-07 \|website=www.plants.usda.gov \|archive-date=2020-08-28 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828231143/https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIST \|url-status=live }}</ref>

	The [[Haudenosaunee]] maintain the tree as the central symbol of their multinational confederation, calling it the "[[Tree of Peace]]",<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Graymont \|first1=Barbara \|title=The Iroquois \|date=2009 \|publisher=Infobase Publishing \|page=21 \|quote=The tree had four symbolic roots, the Great White Roots of Peace, spreading north, east, south, and west. If any other nation ever wished to join the League, it would have to follow the White Roots of Peace to the source and take shelter beneath the tree. Atop the tree, he placed an eagle to scream out a warning at the approach of danger. He symbolically planted the tree in the land of the Onondagas, the place of the Grre, the confederate lords, or peace chiefs, would sit beneath it and be caretakers of the Great Peace.}}</ref> where the Seneca use the name '''''o’sóä’'''''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Chafe \|first1=Wallace \|title=A Grammar of the Seneca Language \|date=2015 \|publisher=University of California Press \|isbn=978-0-520-28641-2 \|page=18 \|url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/North%20American/Iroquoian/Seneca%20Language%2C%20A%20Grammar%20of%20the%20%28Chafe%29.pdf}}</ref> and the [[Mohawk people\|Kanienʼkehá:ka]] call it '''''onerahtase'ko:wa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Mohawk Basic Knowledge \|url=https://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> Within the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]], the [[Mi'kmaq]] use the term '''''guow''''' to name the tree,<ref>{{cite web \|title=Pine \|url=https://www.mikmaqonline.org/servlet/dictionaryFrameSet.html?arg0=pine&method=searchFromEnglish \|website=Mi'gmaq-Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary \|publisher=Listuguj \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> both the [[Maliseet\|Wolastoqewiyik]] and [[Passamaquoddy\|Peskotomuhkatiyik]] call it '''''kuw''''' or '''''kuwes''''',<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Francis \|first1=Kmihqitahaman David A. \|last2=Newell \|first2=Kmihqitahaman-ona Wayne A. \|title=Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal \|url=https://pmportal.org/dictionary/kuw-ku-1 \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> and the [[Abenaki]] use the term '''''kowa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=White Pine \|url=http://westernabenaki.com/dictionary/white_pine.html \|website=Western Abenaki Dictionary \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref>		The [[Haudenosaunee]] maintain the tree as the central symbol of their multinational confederation, calling it the "[[Tree of Peace]]",<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Graymont \|first1=Barbara \|title=The Iroquois \|date=2009 \|publisher=Infobase Publishing \|page=21 \|quote=The tree had four symbolic roots, the Great White Roots of Peace, spreading north, east, south, and west. If any other nation ever wished to join the League, it would have to follow the White Roots of Peace to the source and take shelter beneath the tree. Atop the tree, he placed an eagle to scream out a warning at the approach of danger. He symbolically planted the tree in the land of the Onondagas, the place of the Grre, the confederate lords, or peace chiefs, would sit beneath it and be caretakers of the Great Peace.}}</ref> where the Seneca use the name '''''o’sóä’'''''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Chafe \|first1=Wallace \|title=A Grammar of the Seneca Language \|date=2015 \|publisher=University of California Press \|isbn=978-0-520-28641-2 \|page=18 \|url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/North%20American/Iroquoian/Seneca%20Language%2C%20A%20Grammar%20of%20the%20%28Chafe%29.pdf}}</ref> and the [[Mohawk people\|Kanienʼkehá:ka]] call it '''''onerahtase'ko:wa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Mohawk Basic Knowledge \|url=https://winddancer45.tripod.com/MohawkLanguage.html \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> Within the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]], the [[Mi'kmaq]] use the term '''''guow''''' to name the tree,<ref>{{cite web \|title=Pine \|url=https://www.mikmaqonline.org/servlet/dictionaryFrameSet.html?arg0=pine&method=searchFromEnglish \|website=Mi'gmaq-Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary \|publisher=Listuguj \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> both the [[Maliseet\|Wolastoqewiyik]] and [[Passamaquoddy\|Peskotomuhkatiyik]] call it '''''kuw''''' or '''''kuwes''''',<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Francis \|first1=Kmihqitahaman David A. \|last2=Newell \|first2=Kmihqitahaman-ona Wayne A. \|title=Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal \|url=https://pmportal.org/dictionary/kuw-ku-1 \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref> and the [[Abenaki]] use the term '''''kowa'''''.<ref>{{cite web \|title=White Pine \|url=http://westernabenaki.com/dictionary/white_pine.html \|website=Western Abenaki Dictionary \|access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref>
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	The eastern white pine has been described as the tallest tree in eastern North America, perhaps sharing the prize with the deciduous [[Liriodendron tulipifera\|tulip tree]] whose range overlaps with eastern white pine in a few areas. In natural [[pre-colonial America\|precolonial]] stands, the pine was frequently reported to have grown as tall as {{cvt\|70\|m\|ft}} or more. No means exist for accurately documenting the height of trees from these times, but eastern white pine may have reached this height on rare occasions. James Brown of [[Arniston, Midlothian\|Arniston]], a forester and later Inspector of Woods and Forests, [[Port Elgin, Ontario]], Canada wrote in 1882:		The eastern white pine has been described as the tallest tree in eastern North America, perhaps sharing the prize with the deciduous [[Liriodendron tulipifera\|tulip tree]] whose range overlaps with eastern white pine in a few areas. In natural [[pre-colonial America\|precolonial]] stands, the pine was frequently reported to have grown as tall as {{cvt\|70\|m\|ft}} or more. No means exist for accurately documenting the height of trees from these times, but eastern white pine may have reached this height on rare occasions. James Brown of [[Arniston, Midlothian\|Arniston]], a forester and later Inspector of Woods and Forests, [[Port Elgin, Ontario]], Canada wrote in 1882:

	''“In its native habitats this pine grows to very large dimensions. We have measured many of them as they lay felled on the ground and taking a number of them we found the stems average 150 feet long by 2 feet 9 inches diameter at 5 feet up from the bottom. This may be taken as an average of the size of the trees as they stand in their native parts ; but we have found many of them that measured 210 feet long with stems from 5 to 7 feet in diameter at 4 feet up from the bottom and on counting the annular layers on the stumps from which they were cut we found them to range between 350 and 425 which may be taken as representing the years of their age.”''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Brown \|first1=James \|title=The Forester: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General Management of Forest-trees \|date=1882 \|publisher=William Blackwood and Sons \|location=Edinburgh and London \|page=341 \|edition=5th \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymIDAAAAYAAJ~~&pg=PA341~~&dq=pinus+strobus+210+feet+length+lay&hl=~~en&ppis=_c&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIz-SCn4LnAhVQgp4KHbTwApsQ6AEwAnoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false~~ \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>		''“In its native habitats this pine grows to very large dimensions. We have measured many of them as they lay felled on the ground and taking a number of them we found the stems average 150 feet long by 2 feet 9 inches diameter at 5 feet up from the bottom. This may be taken as an average of the size of the trees as they stand in their native parts ; but we have found many of them that measured 210 feet long with stems from 5 to 7 feet in diameter at 4 feet up from the bottom and on counting the annular layers on the stumps from which they were cut we found them to range between 350 and 425 which may be taken as representing the years of their age.”''<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Brown \|first1=James \|title=The Forester: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General Management of Forest-trees \|date=1882 \|publisher=William Blackwood and Sons \|location=Edinburgh and London \|page=341 \|edition=5th \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymIDAAAAYAAJ&dq=pinus+strobus+210+feet+length+lay&pg=PA341 \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>

	Even greater heights and diameters have been reported in numerous early town and county histories, lumber journals, and popular, but unverifiable, accounts such as Robert Pike's ''Tall Trees, Tough Men''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Pike \|first1=Robert E. \|title=Tall Trees, Tough Men \|date=1999 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|location=New York , London \|isbn=0-393-31917-2 \|page=23 \|edition=3rd \|url=https://~~www~~.google.com/books~~/edition/Tall_Trees_Tough_Men/D_doBQAAQBAJ~~?hl=~~en&gbpv=1~~&dq=robert%20pike%20tough%20men%20tall%20trees%20pine&pg=PA23~~&printsec=frontcover~~ \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>		Even greater heights and diameters have been reported in numerous early town and county histories, lumber journals, and popular, but unverifiable, accounts such as Robert Pike's ''Tall Trees, Tough Men''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Pike \|first1=Robert E. \|title=Tall Trees, Tough Men \|date=1999 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|location=New York , London \|isbn=0-393-31917-2 \|page=23 \|edition=3rd \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_doBQAAQBAJ&dq=robert%20pike%20tough%20men%20tall%20trees%20pine&pg=PA23 \|access-date=21 March 2025}}</ref>

	Total trunk volumes of the largest specimens are around {{cvt\|28\|m3}}, with some past giants possibly reaching {{cvt\|37\|to\|40\|m3}}. Photographic analysis of giants suggests volumes closer to {{cvt\|34\|m3}}.{{citation needed\|date=March 2023}}		Total trunk volumes of the largest specimens are around {{cvt\|28\|m3}}, with some past giants possibly reaching {{cvt\|37\|to\|40\|m3}}. Photographic analysis of giants suggests volumes closer to {{cvt\|34\|m3}}.{{citation needed\|date=March 2023}}

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