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Where else but in Greater the area so perfect that they iy
Victoria can you tum off the bought land between the lake and ,
main street and find a pristine the gary oaks on the hill for a,.
wilderness retreat?., graveyard, oom,
For -this reason, the Swan
ake-Christmas Hill Nature
entre development just off . :
ouglas Street in Saanich LUCKY THING
unicipality, ia unusual, and the The final resting place of an--
ople in charge work -hard to cestors’ had to be immensely §
eep the Jook natural. And it was pleasant or the survivors would be
nly eight short years ago that the haunted, and.the chosen area wa
= : a * - » <Tske was almost dead, | _ immensely pleasant.
ten is believed to ba the biggest of its kind now growing in the United States, There was a time when the However, it was a lucky thing &
: ; Chinese community considered for these Chinese survivors that ewan : :
: : : st ' In the background is she Swan Lake Nature House, and

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Each of these

‘The “bigness” ofa tree is ‘Wood to their trunks. Then, 162 feet, Lapine, Oregon. — - itt the foreground a portion of floating boardwalks.

the sum of three dimen- (00, each species has its own 4, AMERICAN ELM, 160 .

l ‘* gions: height, the cireum- rate of growth and its own feet, Trigonia, Tennessee.

‘ ference of the trunk 4-1/2 normal lifespan. That’swhy 5, SOUTHERN CY-

feet from the ground, and even a mature, healthy oak, PRESS, 122 feet, Weakley
one-quarter af: the crow for example, can never beas County, Tennessee.

; spread. - big os @ similarly favored 6, SHBLLBARK HICK-

i] A tree keeps growing a8 4, GIANT sEQuOIA, .ORY. 122. feet, French

- long as it lives, but not 272 feet, Sequoia National . Lick, Indiana,

necessarily in ail three di- Park, California. 7. SUGAR MAPLE, 116

menzions. Some species stop 2 DOUGLAS FIR, 221 feet, Garrett County,

‘growing upward after a time feet, Olympic National Maryland.

. eee BRIDGE OVER LAKE
the “peaple living in the” By 1950, the lake smelled, and’ py, lake stapped smelling andq
. oo. _ . the value of houses in the once a grateful public made more funds
neighbourhood did. not want a prestigious Lakehill area plum- svoilable for bird blinds, bridges ; ‘
‘graveyard nearby. Considering meted. Trout disappeated and so over the creeks and floating paths.
what happened to the lake, there did the: fish-cating birds. The nora recently, a major bridge
. , would have been many hauntings. algae crept along the channels of construction job allows people ta
*, ‘Two things happéned. In 1924, the creeks, blocking the flow of yaik over the lake as well an

a winery apened its doors on the water in and out. A crust farmed sound it,

but spread their crowns ever park: i . 8. BLACK CHERRY, shores of the Swan, and con- onthe lake's surface, The house's swimming pool
wider and add layers of ry A bec ea PINE, 102 feat, Lawrence, situcted an underground tunnel Then Saanich built its new pas become a home far $0 wood i
soy ; : Michigan, : ~, dinto the ‘Take itself. Down this Municipal Hall on the south gues, which are now nesting | ‘
. p E ; . 9, WHITE BIRCH, 96 tunnel oozed all the detritus from shore, the tunnel was closed and. oden boxes 10 fect above i
RK. UP MEALS feats Lake Leelanau, )- the winemaking” process, de- the treatment plant moved. The: sound, ‘Trout fingerlings will
: ' . ichigan. =| -. : . positing purple suds on the lake’s lake became a greenbelt area, 8 “raised in the poof next, but, in ‘
WI TH A LI 6 HT W | | E D ESSE RT ee ee OAK, Oe feet, ; surface, and sludge on the bot- far-sighted policy on the part of ‘meantime, the stickleback ,
ne ; : ae ' mt, tom. The’algae began to grow. the B.C. Government. ; ; " gun fish are-on the’ in ete a
. 5S ; . - = - aanich bought more land, fish-eating birds have
*, This article wes prepared , SEWAGE PLANT _ closing farms and hiring Jake But since there still isn't aa
by the St. Regis Paper Com- . Then a sewage treatment plant specialists to oversee planting of ‘oxygen on the lake bottom, pl
pany, which — together with a, ot on ; was opened to accommodate the hedgerow and the building of don'rdrink the water—not yet! ;
the other members of the - ae OY ‘ : overflow from a fast-growing «ails, One af the residential ' There is parking in front of
forest producia industry —is to $e city. This, too, made its insidious houses became the nature centre, nature house. Take a walk.’ They *
wig the been ie pai . Vy : contributions 10 the waters. The and a zoologist, Grace Barcjay, ‘paths and’ bridges are wid
fulness of America’s forests Alice Tomlinson Hlustration a . _ algae kept on growing. became the naturalist in charge. enough for wheelchairs, too - q
for the generations to come. _ . . { =

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