Talk:Thuja plicata

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Thuja plicata article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Plants Mid‑importance

	Plants portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Plants, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of plants and botany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PlantsWikipedia:WikiProject PlantsTemplate:WikiProject Plantsplant articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Canada: British Columbia Low‑importance

	Canada portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CanadaWikipedia:WikiProject CanadaTemplate:WikiProject CanadaCanada-related articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject British Columbia.

Oregon Mid‑importance

	Oregon portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Oregon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Oregon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OregonWikipedia:WikiProject OregonTemplate:WikiProject OregonOregon articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
The current collaborations of the month are Women's History Month: Create or improve articles for women listed at Oregon Women of Achievement (modern) or Women of the West, Oregon chapter (historical).

Untitled

---Wood Uses---

The Wood of Western Redcedar is used extensively in decks and fences as a premium product (the cheaper alternitives being spruce, pine or fir (SPF) or pressure treated. The wood of Thuja Plicata is quite resistant to rot and insect infestaion, which makes it a very valuable softwood. This should be mentioned somewhwre in the article.

---Removal---

I removed the following as I felt it was out of place on this page. Perhaps it would fit in a page about Scotchbroom:

Scotchbroom also works very well, its bark can easily be striped and is very strong.You can use 3 long strips of it and interweive them, then soak them in water for a long time so the fibers wash out.This makes the rope more durable and last longer.

El Krem 23:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, you shouldn't call the tree a Western Red Cedar before you've explained that it can be called that... Legolasluvr 00:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

threatened by climate change

Wondering which section of article should include bit about this species being effected by climate change. cbc.ca article says "tree could vanish for good in spots ..." and "Zeglen blames climate change that is expected to bring longer dry spells ...". --EarthFurst (talk) 08:32, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This topic should be addressed in the Pathology section. In the Southern Gulf Islands and San Juan Islands many redcedars are dying from the top down. This is a consequence of climate change and also of decreasing moisture in land as it is developed by humans. Regards, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 22:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My friend found a scientifically interesting mutation on a tree labelled t.plicata here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuja_plicata#/media/File:Thuja_plicata_mutant_akin_gingko_on_two_trees_in_city_park,_Grenoble,_France.jpg 2001:861:42C1:CAC0:DE4E:7A39:9B8B:1D5C (talk) 09:44, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Anchor

Hello @SamX: This would be good if it worked. Did you remove it because it doesn't work? I don't know how to fix it. Invasive Spices (talk) 16:09, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Invasive Spices: It was working correctly, but I decided to remove it since it links to the "management considerations" section. The source is cited several times within the article, and many of the citations reference statements that aren't within the that section. — SamX [talk • contribs] 18:23, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see. The first 3 are but the last 2 are not. I have used {{rp}} to give that information. I hope you will approve. Invasive Spices (talk) 18:57, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seems fair enough. I've moved the FEIS reference from a ref tag to the Works cited section, since it was being cited several times within the article and (for me at least) the {{rp}} section titles were breaking up the flow of the text and making it a bit more difficult to read. I used {{sfn}} instead and changed the section title cases per MOS:ALLCAPS. I really don't think mentioning the section titles is necessary since the FEIS report is a pretty small document and it's not that hard to CTRL+F through it, but I can't say I care much either way. — SamX [talk • contribs] 04:33, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Willaby Creek Tree not the tallest

There are several that are taller:

https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/world-westernredcedar/hd1

This site does not use different URLs for it's various search functions, but there are several taller ones on here too:

https://bigtrees.forestry.ubc.ca/bc-bigtree-registry/conifers/

I think this should be changed, but I don't think there's any confirmation of what the actual tallest is.

Singer building (talk) 00:55, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]