Concerned Vancouver residents have raised the alarm about a 400-year-old Douglas Fir tree cut down in Stanley Park.

Norm Oberson, a provincially-certified tree risk assessor, said he was contacted two weeks ago by a woman who spotted a worker in the tree who told her the tree was hollow and had to be felled.

“When I showed up at the site, the first thing I observed was the size of the tree being on the ground, that all the bark had been stripped off the tree,” Oberson said.

“So the tree apparently had been debarked prior to sounding, and I would presume the reason for that is that the bark is so thick you can’t actually sound the tree with the bark on the tree.”

He said Douglas Firs can have bark that is up to four inches thick.

It is not known who cut the tree down.

Oberson said h

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