Alberta’s Heritage Trees: The Lonely, Leaning Jack Pine

04-Jun-2017

There’s a strange piece of Alberta’s heritage awaiting travellers on Highway 55: a tree growing at what should be an impossible angle, totally alone in the middle of a pasture. The ‘Leaning Tree’ or ‘Lonely Tree’ is a true survivor, bent at a 45-degree angle during a ferocious wildfire and still standing nearly a hundred…