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Stanley Park Preservation Society questions tree removal

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A group opposed to ongoing tree removal in Vancouver’s Stanley Park is questioning the city’s decision to cut down a 400-year-old Douglas fir. The City of Vancouver deemed the tree dead and a safety concern for the public, but the Stanley Park Preservation Society hired two independent risk assessors who have come to a different conclusion. “This is the first that I’ve seen it, in real life and it’s just devastating,” Jillian MacGuire, a member of the society told CTV News at the park Thursday. The 30-metre-tall conifer is now wood chips on the ground. Norm Oberson is one of the tree risk assessors brought on by the society. He says preliminary assessment of the tree doesn’t suggest it was necessary to cut the tree down. “If you would go and look at the flat top, you would see that the flat top is sound. Theres no decay in the heartwood,” Oberson said. “I haven’t found any indicators of danger in this tree so far. We tested the roots. They are sounding solid. Theres no signs or indicat

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