"National Geographic Cedar," Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC.
Photo: P. J. M. Wright
Nature has taken its course in Vancouver's Stanley Park and it has cost the city 1,000 years of history.A massive Western red cedar on the park's west side, near Third Beach, toppled during a heavy rain and wind storm Sunday.Stanley Park maintenance supervisor Eric Meagher says the 40-metre-tall tree is considered an icon in the park because the first photographs of it date back to 1890 and it appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1978.Meagher says the tree was the largest in Stanley Park and was considered one of the largest of its species on the planet.He says its aging roots were rotted through, so its loss was a natural occurrence.The trunk, which is an estimated 15 metres in diameter, will be left as is, to act as a home for bugs and food for the future trees that will naturally replace it.
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