Since 2020, the Sugar Pine Foundation has asked its network of volunteers to collect and send in jeffrey pine and incense cedar seeds that are needed for planting a mix of trees in burn zones.

A sign says this sugar pine is 265 feet tall in Douglas County. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) The sign overstates the height of the world's tallest sugar pine tree by 10 feet. Still, at 255.44 ...

The sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) can be identified by its huge cones, which can reach lengths of more than 20 inches and are about 4 to 6 inches wide. Sugar pines can grow as tall as 250 feet ...

Along with “big tree hunters” Carl Casey and Martin Crawford, Taylor determined that the tree was the largest sugar pine by volume known to humans, with a volume of 5,761 cubic feet.

“Being an ice cream shop, sugar pine trees have the largest pine cones. We’re doing ice cream cones, so we thought it was fitting,” he said.