Associated Press - December 3, 2007 1:05 AM ET
SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) - The world's tallest Sitka spruce near Seaside survived 700 years of storms and a threat from chain saws, but it wasn't up to today's powerful winds.
The roadside attraction in Kloochy Creek County Park snapped in half, high above the ground.
KATU-TV reports that the spruce was badly damaged during a windstorm last year and officials had pondered cutting it down for safety reasons, but decided to let nature have it's way.
Yesterday, nature did.
The 200-foot-tall tree, which was a sapling at the time of the Crusades, drew about 100,000 visitors a year.
Clatsop county kept visitors in the last year a safe distance from the forest giant.
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Here's a picture I found of it before... It's not as big as a really big Douglas Fir, but it was very old.
