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Weirdly, if you look at the 1899 maps of Audubon Pk by Olmstead bros. you can see why the uptown side of the root ball is a straight line -- there was a road there and they cut the roots like 150 years ago

FYI: here is my annotated version of the 1899 Olmstead Bros "before" map showing an already large root ball of the "Tree-of-Life/Bore Oak" cut by a linear drainage ditch along a road that is long gone. I posted this and a lot more Audubon stuff on the old bird-site

Very cool. Thank you.

Beautiful capture of the root ball -- the reds!!!