00:00Every day thousands of Canberrans drive past this tree on Yarra Glen and don't know its remarkable history.
00:12The tree was planted around the late 1920s as part of a windbreak at the Yarra Glen homestead which once stood near this spot.
00:23Around 30 years later the property was resumed by the government as part of the expansion of suburbia and this highway named after the property was subsequently built right through that original windbreak.
00:39However while most of the other trees were felled in the name of progress this tree avoided the chop.
00:46How? Well Lance Bowler, one of the grader drivers working on the new road refused to allow it to be removed as he'd often park his grader under it to enjoy his lunch in the shade.
01:04The tree has survived for another six decades a lone landmark in the middle of the highway providing a tangible link to the site's pastoral past.
01:14However its days appear to be numbered for it's right in the path of where the tracks for stage 2b of the light rail will likely be built.
01:27Given it is probable that it will face the chop propagation of the tree is being explored along with a memorial plaque and ceremonial plantings to mark the history of the area.
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