So, a decade later, I returned to this spot and the people who use the land have decimated the tree. She is no more, she is dead, gone, destroyed. The roots were cut, I imagine the tree then drowned. The were fishing in a filthy pond that was once pure clear water. This tree was hundreds of years old. The last of her kind on that mountain my ancestors called home. Now she is lost to ignorance and darkness, all in the name of convenience. Idiots.