Talk:Coast Douglas-fir

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The Douglas-fir is one of the proudest trees North America has to offer, gracing coastal mountainsides and summits alike; is a collection of trees on a golf-course really the best we can do here? Jackmont 04:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProjects

I added this tree to WikiProject Oregon because it is the Oregon state tree. Not sure it needs to be part of any other state's WikiProject. Not because I'm being Oregon-centric, but because it just seems silly. Heck it may have been silly to include it in WikiProject Oregon, and it's probably better off in some biology-related project... Katr67 00:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hyphenated name?

Is it Douglas-fir (with the hyphen) or Douglas fir (without the hyphen)? Even though it's written with the hyphen in this article, I've only seen it without the hyphen anywhere else (and I'm from Oregon, so I'm familiar with the tree). 207.69.137.23 00:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Douglas-fir, with the hyphen, is fairly common, especially in botanical literature, and is used by those who wish to avoid confusing this species with true firs, genus Abies. You can find a discussion of this and related issues at WP:TOL and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life and the archives of the latter. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 01:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

See the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants#Douglas-fir -Eric ^(talk) 12:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)