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NewsJune 25, 2017

A roughly 100-foot sequoia tree sits on a platform made of steel pipe, chains, burlap, wood and other reinforcements as workers prepare to move it to a new location about a block away in Boise, Idaho. The more than century-old tree is in the final throes this weekend of a complex effort to uproot it from the path of a Boise hospital's expansion and move it two blocks to city property. If all goes according to plan, it will arrive at its new home today...

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Rebecca Boone ~ Associated Press
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A roughly 100-foot sequoia tree sits on a platform made of steel pipe, chains, burlap, wood and other reinforcements as workers prepare to move it to a new location about a block away in Boise, Idaho. The more than century-old tree is in the final throes this weekend of a complex effort to uproot it from the path of a Boise hospital's expansion and move it two blocks to city property. If all goes according to plan, it will arrive at its new home today.

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