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By Edmonton standards a pretty large tree....
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Timber+time+titan/4679416/story.html (pics contained herein)
EDMONTON — Brad Kalyniuk pulled his pickup truck over Tuesday at 71st Street and 101st Avenue to pick up a piece of history.
Since the 1970s, Kalyniuk remembers driving by the “massive” tree at the northeast corner of the intersection.
On Tuesday afternoon, he pulled on a pair of work gloves to search for the perfect piece of wood to make a coffee table.
“I’m kind of saddened. It’s like an icon,” Kalyniuk said. “Everything … changes all around you, but the tree was always there.”
On Tuesday, city crews used chainsaws, trucks and wood chippers to remove the almost 1.6-metre-wide balsam poplar in Terrace Heights. The city could not confirm the tree’s height.
“Now that you see it cut down, you can really see the scope of it,” said Glenn Lutic, who also stopped by Tuesday afternoon.
The city decided to take down the tree when it became obvious it had rotted, said Jeannette Wheeler, principal of forestry for the city. The trunk had split open, revealing the tree was rotting from the inside. “It was coming to the end of its lifespan.”
The tree was also taken down, Wheeler said, because the city was concerned it could fall.
Wheeler said the tree was at least as old as the surrounding neighbourhood. According to information provided by the City of Edmonton, about 30 houses were built in the neighbourhood of Terrace Heights before 1946.
Ed Smith has lived down the street from the tree since the late 1950s, raising his two sons in the area.
For as long as he can remember, the tree has stood at the corner of 71st Street and 101st Avenue.
“It was one of the grandfathers of all the trees around here,” Smith said. He said he remembers youth in the area kicking at the tree within the past year and bark slowly falling off its trunk.
While the towering tree is gone, the city has taken steps to help its legacy live on. City crews removed two foot-long samples of the tree before it was felled. The samples will be taken to a nursery, where they will be grown into saplings and planted throughout Edmonton’s urban forest.
Wheeler said this is a normal practice when a relatively strong and healthy tree is cut down.
“We wanted to carry that into the future.”
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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Timber+time+titan/4679416/story.html (pics contained herein)
EDMONTON — Brad Kalyniuk pulled his pickup truck over Tuesday at 71st Street and 101st Avenue to pick up a piece of history.
Since the 1970s, Kalyniuk remembers driving by the “massive” tree at the northeast corner of the intersection.
On Tuesday afternoon, he pulled on a pair of work gloves to search for the perfect piece of wood to make a coffee table.
“I’m kind of saddened. It’s like an icon,” Kalyniuk said. “Everything … changes all around you, but the tree was always there.”
On Tuesday, city crews used chainsaws, trucks and wood chippers to remove the almost 1.6-metre-wide balsam poplar in Terrace Heights. The city could not confirm the tree’s height.
“Now that you see it cut down, you can really see the scope of it,” said Glenn Lutic, who also stopped by Tuesday afternoon.
The city decided to take down the tree when it became obvious it had rotted, said Jeannette Wheeler, principal of forestry for the city. The trunk had split open, revealing the tree was rotting from the inside. “It was coming to the end of its lifespan.”
The tree was also taken down, Wheeler said, because the city was concerned it could fall.
Wheeler said the tree was at least as old as the surrounding neighbourhood. According to information provided by the City of Edmonton, about 30 houses were built in the neighbourhood of Terrace Heights before 1946.
Ed Smith has lived down the street from the tree since the late 1950s, raising his two sons in the area.
For as long as he can remember, the tree has stood at the corner of 71st Street and 101st Avenue.
“It was one of the grandfathers of all the trees around here,” Smith said. He said he remembers youth in the area kicking at the tree within the past year and bark slowly falling off its trunk.
While the towering tree is gone, the city has taken steps to help its legacy live on. City crews removed two foot-long samples of the tree before it was felled. The samples will be taken to a nursery, where they will be grown into saplings and planted throughout Edmonton’s urban forest.
Wheeler said this is a normal practice when a relatively strong and healthy tree is cut down.
“We wanted to carry that into the future.”
[email protected]
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