How Does an 800-Year-Old Giant Tree Go Missing?

Enterprising tree poachers have steal a gold , er , woodmine of a target : an 800 - class - old cherry-red cedar tree diagram that ’s one of the largest in the Vancouver Island area . It ’s gone now and it was stolen under a two - part cognitive process that ’s been afoot for the retiring year .

The tree stealing two - step scheme was a bold one : the tree was originally foreshorten 80 % through its nine - foot diamter trunk before the damage was let out by park official who deemed it unsafe to stay upright . Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park on Vancouver Island , where the tree was once place , resolve to cut the tree down and then let it of course break down .

That ’s when phase two of the tree poach programme came into outcome , the suspected cutters of the tree diagram purportedly came back after the tree had fallen and hauled out the giant Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree opus by piece . It ’s improbable that the park or the police will find the poacher ( unless someone starts a monolithic firewood sales agreement ) but they surmise that the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was stolen to make roof shingles . The poaching squad had to have access to enceinte responsibility equipment and big trucks because even “ firewood salvagers in pickup arm truck ca n’t handle trees this size . ”

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But why slip a freaking Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ? Sgt . Dave Voller explicate to the Canadian Press what the poachers would be able to get for the 800 - year - one-time barque :

“ It ’s obviously much more gain than going out and taking a whole hatful of firewood . A logging hand truck loaded with cedar tree would be worth thousands and thousands of dollars . ”

Solid catch you environment stealers . I imagine you fall out and swap stories withthe bridge thieves . Check out the pictures of the steal treehere . [ Windsor StarviaMSNBC ]

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