And here I thought you couldn't grow big trees out there! :-)

Any time you can get 100 ft tree, you're doing pretty good.

Thanks for posting.

That plains cottonwood is a beauty and so is the birch.

Thanks. I want to see WY's champ pinyon pine....

I have assessed hundreds of trees myself, that became listed records when verified using lasers etc. Where there are other objects present in some of the pictures posted on this thread that provide a basis for comparison I wonder about the heights being given. Compare for instance the elm - with the house next to it to provide scale - with the spruce that has the picnic table near its base. According to the measurements given here these two are almost the same height.

Embo - Yeah, I too, noticed that the blue spruce seemed a bit off. For a supposedly 100' tree, I would have expected something ..bigger. Perhaps, it's a bit of an optical illusion? It looks like the picnic table is out of the shadow of the spruce and its spread is 58' so perhaps it throws the perception of height off. I would still expect a taller-looking tree.

A couple years ago I nominated a blue spruce in Star Valley, WY that my ancestor planted in 1890 that came within 5 -10 pts of beating this one. This makes me want to go investigate this supposed champion and verify its measurements