Photo of massive tree being hauled down Vancouver Island highway sparks global outrage

Lorna Beecroft was headed to Costco in Nanaimo, B.C., on Tuesday when she saw a trailer loaded with a tree so massive it had to be hundreds of years old.

Beecroft says she was stunned by the tree’s size so she snapped a photo to show her friends, given the ongoing protests against old-growth logging taking place not far away on southern Vancouver Island.

The photo enraged many who viewed the huge log — likely a cedar or Sitka spruce, according to experts — but it turns out this