Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) is a large coniferous, evergreen tree that grows naturally in North America where it can become a tree of almost one hundred meters high. It is measured Sitka Spruce at 96 meters height and with a trunk with a diameter of 5 meters.
In Norway, the Sitka spruce is more than 40 meters tall. The tallest Sitka spruce in Norway is from Bergen and is 46 meters high.
We do not really know how high the Sitka spruce can be in Norway since it has only grown here for just over a hundred years.
The first Sitka spruce in Norway was planted in the late 1800s and is, therefore, a little more than a hundred​ years old.
The large Sitka spruces in North America can be up to 200-300 years, and therefore they can reach a height of almost 100 meters.
It was in 1950-1960 that forest planting with Sitka spruce really started in western Norway.
In the pictures we see here there are such trees that have been chopped down.
The reason that the Sitka grain became so popular at the time was that they grew up soon. They were hardy and tolerated the humid and mild weather in this region.
Eventually, these Sitka cranes displaced other trees and became less popular and became blacklisted.
It is only in a particular case that one is allowed to plant Sitka spruce
Now when the trees are so big, they have started chopping, something the pictures show here.
