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Giant sequoia doing well 4 months after Idaho uprooting
Keith Ridler, Associated Press
Updated 4:13 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Photo: Keith Ridler, AP
IMAGE 1 OF 2 This photo shows a sequoia on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, after workers used giant rollers to move it two blocks to make way for a hospital expansion at St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 10-story-tall giant sequoia that was moved two city blocks on giant rollers last summer has new growth and appears happy in its new location, a tree expert said Wednesday.
Tree mover David Cox of Environmental Design examined the 800,000-pound (363,000-kilogram) sequoia in Boise, Idaho, and pronounced the tree fit.
Naturalist John Muir, who played a key role in establishing California's Sequoia National Park, sent the tree as a seedling to Boise more than a century ago.
It was planted in the yard of a doctor's home across the street from a hospital that's now undergoing a major expansion with new buildings, meaning the tree had to be moved or cut down.
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