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

A man in an orange t-shirt stands beside the end of a large cedar tree where it was cut from its base. The gnarled and moss covered trunk extends into the forest behind him.

Conservationists are questioning why an old-growth yellow cedar tree with a diameter that should have ensured its protection and a buffer area around it under provincial law was logged.

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