Category: Urban Forest

Tree and a stump

March 19th, 2026 — A tree in the middle of a sidewalk on Richards Street; a stump in the middle of Pacific Spirit Park.

More student housing

April 2nd, 2026 — Twenty two large trees were cut down next to UBC’s Place Vanier Residence to make way for new student housing. The housing isn’t going to be built where the trees were cut down, they are to be built a block or more away, but maybe you have to be an academic to understand these things.

Stumps


March 31st, 2026 — Trees at the corner of Burrard Street and Cornwell were cut down to make way for a bus stop at the Senakw housing development. Below, as they were on March 6th.
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More fog

January 18th, 2026 — The view from a path around a pond that we used to call “the slough” next to Ambleside park.

Slash

March 14th, 2024 — Slash from diseased trees felled next to North West Marine Drive at the west end of Spanish Banks.