Why was ‘incredible’ giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.’s big-tree protection law?

Why was ‘incredible’ giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.’s big-tree protection law?

Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of hiking around Vancouver Island.The monumental cedar stood in what was one of the few intact or nearly intact old-growth valleys left

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