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Written by THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Tourists stand outside the security fence surrounding Stanley Park's famous Hollow tree in Stanley Park in Vancouver, Thursday, June 12, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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VANCOUVER - A one-thousand-year-old hollow cedar tree in Vancouver's Stanley Park will stand for at least another 150 days.
Vancouver Park Board commissioners have voted to delay planned removal of the tree to allow time to study engineering reports suggesting it can be saved.
The long-dead tree, now a 14-metre high stump, has been a tourist favourite for more than a century as visitors posed for photographs in front of - or inside - the now six-metre-wide opening.
But the tree is currently held upright by a growing mesh of cables and braces because it is leaning at a precarious angle after being badly damaged in the 2006 windstorms.
The Park Board initially planned to remove the stump and cut it in half, leaving the two chunks in a memorial at the site so visitors could still grasp the tree's formerly massive proportions.
The Tuesday night vote approving the 150 day reprieve for the hollow tree comes after strong public pressure to save the aging landmark.
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