Hollow Tree

This guide to the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park traces a thousand-year-old red cedar stump that survived a road built around it and decades as a photo backdrop, from horse-drawn carriages to an elephant lifting a woman off her feet in the 1920s. By December 2006 a windstorm left it leaning and cracked, and two years later Vancouver's park board declared it finished. Listen for the argument that followed over whether the tree was worth saving.