Hello everyone new guy here. Pretty excited to be a member of this site! I have been cutting firewood since i was little with my dad and learned alot about saftey and equipment matinience, but never really listned to him about how to tell the difrence between doug fir and white fir. Any help much apreciated!
Hang tight Steve Help is on the way There is like 10,000 years of experience here. They will fix you up
Are you looking to id it before or after it is cut down? What I have found, I may be wrong, is that Douglas fir pulpwood is redder in color than white fir. If you look at the bark of both side by side the deepest grooves on the douglas fir are slightly red while the white fir is gray... Needles on the white fir are usually a little longer and slightly more curved. KaptJaq
Just shout out "hey Doug!". If it replies, it'll teach you how to dougie! Sorry, couldn't help myself. Welcome to FHC!
It can be down or standing, but i wont cut it unless its dead so the needle option is out. But i will look for red in the bark.
I think i have hemlock and white fir here in north idaho. I could be wrong but hemlock looks quite similar as well. The way i try to tell the diff is the red stuff under the bark?
Fresh cut Doug Fir has a radish tint to it, it goes away though after awhile while in rounds, but when you split it you well see the red towards the center We dont have white Fir that i know of here in western Wash here is a pic of some fresh Doug fir in my truck from a few years ago, i think the Doug Fir will have a thicker bark as well
White fir needles are short, stiff and upright. Doug fir needles are softer and arrange all around the branch. White fir smells like Christmas tree (to me), Doug fir smells like the lumber department at Home Depot. Maybe that's just on the West Coast. This is Douglas Fir This is White Fir. The center of Doug fir splits have a reddish color, white fir is white. HTH
