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The flag is a tricolor consisting of three horizontal stripes of blue, white, and green, charged with a single Douglas fir tree in the center. The blue stripe represents the sky, Pacific Ocean and Salish Sea, as well as the myriad of rivers in the bioregion including the Columbia, the Snake, and Fraser Rivers. The white represents clouds and ...
The Pine Tree Flag (or the An Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution.The flag, which featured a pine tree with the motto "An Appeal to Heaven", or less frequently "An Appeal to God", was used by a squadron of six schooners commissioned under George Washington's authority as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army beginning in October 1775.
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields. The color of text is almost entirely ignored.
Flag design involves vivid and uncomplicated imagery – think of the American flag itself – and by that standard the Pine Tree Flag is superior.
Acts of Parliament in 1711, 1722 and the 1772 Timber for the Navy Act extended protection finally to 12-inch-diameter (300 mm) trees and resulted in the Pine Tree Riot that same year. This was one of the first acts of rebellion by the American colonists leading to the American Revolution in 1775, and a flag bearing a white pine was flown at the ...
Douglas-fir is a medium-sized to extremely large evergreen tree, 20–100 metres (70–330 feet) tall (although only coast Douglas-firs, reach heights near 100 m) [10] and commonly reach 2.4 m (8 ft) in diameter, [11] although trees with diameters of almost 5 m (16 ft) exist. [12]
An Appeal to Heaven flag, center left, is pictured at a rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, in support of President Donald Trump. - Carolyn Kaster/AP
Orange or yellow paints are used for harvest boundaries, and trees within those areas have blue, orange, green, or yellow paint, depending on whether they are to be taken or spared. A black paint ...