Giant tree has crashed to Earth in the Catalina Mountains
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A Douglas fir tree -- more than 100 feet tall and perhaps 300 years old -- has toppled to the forest floor in the Catalina Mountains a vertical mile above Tucson. Video by Doug Kreutz, Arizona Daily Star
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