By Tiffany Hanssen, Gothamist
The “Furever Tree” is no more.
That cypress tree in the Central Park Ramble that had been a beloved memorial site for grieving pet owners was cut down by the Central Park Conservancy in August.
A spokesperson for the Conservancy told Gothamist that its members had thoroughly assessed the tree, which they determined had died “due to a combination of environmental stress and wear on the landscape.”
According to Gus Saltonstall, the managing editor at the online news site West Side Rag, the tree had been showing signs of distress for at least the past six months. In May, a reader emailed Saltonstall to say that “all the branches were brown and brittle.”
The reader had speculated that the tree’s demise was also tied to pet owners scattering their pets’ ashes around the tree, Saltonstall wrote in his article about the tree’s demise.
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