Over on our Maple Leaf Life Facebook page, Patrick LoCicero wants to save a giant tree in the neighborhood just a block off busy Fifth Avenue Northeast.
SAVE THE TREE!! There is a 200 to 300 year old Sequoia Tree on the corner of 105th and 8th Ave NE down from the NorthGate Community Center. It sits right on Thornton Creek and is a beauty. It would make a wonderful addition to the park!!! Go see for your self!!! The wooden fence that hid it is gone!!!
He’s talking about Thornton Creek Park No. 6, the park where the Maple Leaf beavers live. We’ve most recently written about trouble at an abandoned house there that the Seattle Parks and Recreation plans to tear down.
We’ll ask the the parks department what it plans for the tree. Which is so big it’s hard to take a photo of.
Wonderful tree, but since Sequoias aren’t native here, it had to have been planted by people, meaning it’s not anywhere near 200 to 300 years old.
My guess is that this beautiful tree is more like 75 years old, and I bet it wouldn’t take much to get the Parks Department to agree to save and protect it.
Good luck!