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Beloved Tree Comes Down In Fairbanks

Photo by Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks.
Photo by Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks.

A landmark tree in Fairbanks is gone. The 75-foot-tall white spruce that stood in front of the Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge farm house was cut down Monday. The tree was dying from stress cracks and a beetle infestation and needed to come down. But, it won’t be forgotten.

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Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.