Comments on: Bionic Hollow Tree for Stanley Park http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html Vancouver Blog Miss604 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D Pierce http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6073 D Pierce Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:54:09 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6073 Check out a trailer for the upcoming documentary about the restoration of Stanley Park's fabled Hollow Tree, featuring Douglas Coupland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVDixF4dN3g Check out a trailer for the upcoming documentary about the restoration of Stanley Park’s fabled Hollow Tree, featuring Douglas Coupland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVDixF4dN3g

]]> By: V Long http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6072 V Long Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:53:52 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6072 I cannot believe this, with all the starving and homeless people in this City that you are actually going to waste 200,000 on a dead tree, come on people wake up and start thinking about the living not the dead. I cannot believe this, with all the starving and homeless people in this City that you are actually going to waste 200,000 on a dead tree, come on people wake up and start thinking about the living not the dead.

]]> By: tia http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6071 tia Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:34:22 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6071 well i think hallow tree is kinda good for tourrisom but it look kinda scary and we heard from tour guide said the legend has it that hallow tree is haunted.and it's true lots of us experience it when we go driving around the seawall at night. there was 1 night i experienced the most scariest feeling sensation that something was with us that we could not explain. all of sudden as we pass through by hallow tree we start to get hair standing up on our head & spine we all went quiet just keep on driving the feeling lasted for full 3 minute. it was so scary and i know for a fact there was some kind of a spirit or something was present with us at that moment i was so scared out of my mind didn't say a word till we passed it im not the only one felt it .my friends in the car felt the same thing.it was a good thing what ever it was with us didn't reveal itself to us other we would all faint or wouldn't no what to do . and i don't care bout some of you mite not believe in spirits or ghosts but i do cause i experience it with my freinds. think about it the tree has history it been there for 1000 years. and there lots of accidents ,thing happend by hallow tree that people died there every year that they failed to mention at least 1 accident happend or something.but it is kind of interesting and amazing real story it not a lie.if you go to library do research about the legend of hallow tree in Stanleypark Vancouver you will find history bout it. well i think hallow tree is kinda good for tourrisom but it look kinda scary and we heard from tour guide said the legend has it that hallow tree is haunted.and it’s true lots of us experience it when we go driving around the seawall at night. there was 1 night i experienced the most scariest feeling sensation that something was with us that we could not explain. all of sudden as we pass through by hallow tree we start to get hair standing up on our head & spine we all went quiet just keep on driving the feeling lasted for full 3 minute. it was so scary and i know for a fact there was some kind of a spirit or something was present with us at that moment i was so scared out of my mind didn’t say a word till we passed it im not the only one felt it .my friends in the car felt the same thing.it was a good thing what ever it was with us didn’t reveal itself to us other we would all faint or wouldn’t no what to do . and i don’t care bout some of you mite not believe in spirits or ghosts but i do cause i experience it with my freinds. think about it the tree has history it been there for 1000 years. and there lots of accidents ,thing happend by hallow tree that people died there every year that they failed to mention at least 1 accident happend or something.but it is kind of interesting and amazing real story it not a lie.if you go to library do research about the legend of hallow tree in Stanleypark Vancouver you will find history bout it.

]]> By: Save the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6070 Save the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:39:03 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6070 [...] had a poll on my blog regarding the 40ft tall red cedar and many were in favour of whatever was most natural given the [...] [...] had a poll on my blog regarding the 40ft tall red cedar and many were in favour of whatever was most natural given the [...]

]]> By: Stanley Park Restoration Update April 2008 » Miss604’s Vancouver Blog by Vancouver Blogger Rebecca Bollwitt http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6069 Stanley Park Restoration Update April 2008 » Miss604’s Vancouver Blog by Vancouver Blogger Rebecca Bollwitt Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:53:23 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6069 [...] good news for 88% of folks who participated in my poll will be pleased to know that the Hollow Tree will be laid to rest instead of going even more [...] [...] good news for 88% of folks who participated in my poll will be pleased to know that the Hollow Tree will be laid to rest instead of going even more [...]

]]> By: Erika Rathje http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6068 Erika Rathje Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:25:13 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6068 I was thinking the same thing as Barbara: plant some more trees! Why hasn't anyone else mentioned that? I never knew about the Hollow Tree until the other old giant fell down. My friend was tired so we didn't get close to the Hollow Tree, maybe another time (soon). A hollow tree in Cates Park in North Van (also ravaged by the windstorm and still looking like a bomb went off) inspired a childhood novel and later fell backward into the creek. No one was there propping it up. I don't mind the idea of halving it for more tourist oggling but then it'll never really serve its natural purpose, will it? About those parking lots... why are they paving it when they could use mulch or something instead? I was thinking the same thing as Barbara: plant some more trees! Why hasn’t anyone else mentioned that?

I never knew about the Hollow Tree until the other old giant fell down. My friend was tired so we didn’t get close to the Hollow Tree, maybe another time (soon). A hollow tree in Cates Park in North Van (also ravaged by the windstorm and still looking like a bomb went off) inspired a childhood novel and later fell backward into the creek. No one was there propping it up. I don’t mind the idea of halving it for more tourist oggling but then it’ll never really serve its natural purpose, will it?

About those parking lots… why are they paving it when they could use mulch or something instead?

]]> By: Barbara Doduk http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6067 Barbara Doduk Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:25:30 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6067 Well it is a better idea than robotic dinosaurs in Stanely Park but I have to agree with most people here, it seems like a waste of time. Plant some new trees to replace all the ones that fell in the wind storms, that would be a good use of the funds, or how about actually improving the seawall. Well it is a better idea than robotic dinosaurs in Stanely Park but I have to agree with most people here, it seems like a waste of time. Plant some new trees to replace all the ones that fell in the wind storms, that would be a good use of the funds, or how about actually improving the seawall.

]]> By: Quick Friday early morning link-fest « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6066 Quick Friday early morning link-fest « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:20:53 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6066 [...] Rebecca is asking YOU whether you think that $ 200,000 dollars should be spent on making the Stanley Park hollow tree more sturdy. I personally think… um, no. Give me that money and I’ll find dozens of other worthy causes. Much as I love the hollow tree. [...] [...] Rebecca is asking YOU whether you think that $ 200,000 dollars should be spent on making the Stanley Park hollow tree more sturdy. I personally think… um, no. Give me that money and I’ll find dozens of other worthy causes. Much as I love the hollow tree. [...]

]]> By: Jan Karlsbjerg http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6065 Jan Karlsbjerg Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:53:33 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6065 Waaaay too much to spend on propping up a tree. It was already a "freak of nature" having survived this long after this much damage. But if it can only live on through man-made structures, it's now a "freak of culture". I just used the <a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks/feedback/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">contact form on the park board's website</a> to let them know that I think they should use the $200,000 on something else. Waaaay too much to spend on propping up a tree.

It was already a “freak of nature” having survived this long after this much damage. But if it can only live on through man-made structures, it’s now a “freak of culture”.

I just used the contact form on the park board’s website to let them know that I think they should use the $200,000 on something else.

]]> By: Ian Bell http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6064 Ian Bell Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:12:49 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/2008/03/bionic-hollow-tree-for-stanley-park.html#comment-6064 Um, no. The entire lesson of Stanley Park is that it's a living, breathing ecosystem. Human intervention in the name of whimsy is what left so many of the weakly-rooted, fragile trees that were easily blown down last year that otherwise would have gradually subsided to old age and fallen to regenerate their forest. We will never get another 1,000-year-old tree anywhere in the park as long as the attitude that we need to prune and preserve and otherwise manipulate nature's wiser path prevails. $200K could fund a safe injection site for more than a year. Or hire and equip two more police officers. Or otherwise solve some real problems that this city has. It's a stump. Get over it. Um, no. The entire lesson of Stanley Park is that it’s a living, breathing ecosystem. Human intervention in the name of whimsy is what left so many of the weakly-rooted, fragile trees that were easily blown down last year that otherwise would have gradually subsided to old age and fallen to regenerate their forest.

We will never get another 1,000-year-old tree anywhere in the park as long as the attitude that we need to prune and preserve and otherwise manipulate nature’s wiser path prevails.

$200K could fund a safe injection site for more than a year. Or hire and equip two more police officers. Or otherwise solve some real problems that this city has.

It’s a stump. Get over it.

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