BlogsCommunityMusicArtsScreenEat & DrinkLegals One man’s mission to find Ohio’s biggest trees Bigfoot investigator Marc DeWerth is also the founder of Big Trees Ohio, a volunteer group that has discovered more than 1,000 of the state’s largest trees, some of which are national champions Columbus Alive During the past year, as pandemic-induced isolation kept human contact to a minimum and screens seemed to take over my life, I began to fill my social media feeds with more and more nature. Few things cleanse a dystopic timeline better than a colorful bird or a native woodland wildflower. Somewhere along the way, I stumbled upon the Big Trees Ohio Instagram account, which is exactly what it purports to be. Each day brings a new photo of a massive tree somewhere in Ohio. Often, someone stands next to the tree for scale, and the accompanying caption usually lists the city and/or county where the tree stands (“HUGE Sycamore in Elyria, Ohio at Ely Park”), along with some measurements. And that’s about it. The simplicity of the account, combined with the awe-inspiring size of these trees, is the main appeal. With each new post, my internal dialogue remains the same: “Man. That’s a big tree.”