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The Canadian Press
October 28, 2008 at 1:55 PM EDT
Vancouver An ancient hollow tree in Vancouver's Stanley Park may yet get a new lease on life.
Park Board commissioners accepted a plan over the summer to fell the precariously leaning 14-metre high trunk, but have now given a Vancouver group 60 days to work on a plan to save the tree.
The Stanley Park Hollow Tree Conservation Society must find an engineer to approve plans for a system of jacks and anchors to hold up the hollow cedar tree, which has been the subject of ongoing debate in the city.
Society members also have two months to raise the estimated $215,000 required to complete the work.
Donald MacMaster looks at the fenced-off hollow tree, which is believed to have stood for more than 1,100 years in Stanley Park. (Carmine Marinelli for The Globe and Mail)
A final decision on the tree's fate won't be made until December at the earliest.
That's several weeks after a new park board is elected in municipal elections slated for Nov. 15.
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