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One man’s mission to find Ohio’s biggest trees
Bigfoot investigator Marc DeWerth is also the founder of Big Trees Ohio, a volunteer group that has discovered more than 1,000 of the state’s largest trees, some of which are national champions
Columbus Alive
During the past year, as pandemic-induced isolation kept human contact to a minimum and screens seemed to take over my life, I began to fill my social media feeds with more and more nature. Few things cleanse a dystopic timeline better than a colorful bird or a native woodland wildflower.
Somewhere along the way, I stumbled upon the Big Trees Ohio Instagram account, which is exactly what it purports to be. Each day brings a new photo of a massive tree somewhere in Ohio. Often, someone stands next to the tree for scale, and the accompanying caption usually lists the city and/or county where the tree stands (“HUGE Sycamore in Elyria, Ohio at Ely Park”), along with some mea