1100 Year Old Vancouver Tree to be Taken Down

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The Hollow Tree 1897

Hollow Tree 2005
The Hollow Tree 2005 (photo by squeakymarmot)

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Jon, Viv, and I inside the Hollow Tree 2007

I was actually bummed to read about this because my family and I have stopped at this tree for years. We used to stop there when I was a kid to take photos. The hollow tree is over 1100 years old. That’s 400 years before Christopher Columbus was even born! Apparently the tree is no longer safe.

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