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Future of WWI Avenues of Honour uncertain as century-old trees approach end of their natural lives

Michael Taffe with an old elm that was once part of Ballarat's Monash Avenue of Honour. (ABC Ballarat: Gavin McGrath)

Two Californian redwoods stand rigidly to attention along the old main road at Eganstown north-west of Melbourne.

If it were not for an old sign at each end of the lonely lane, few motorists passing between Ballarat and Daylesford would realise the significance of the botanical immigrants surrounded by native forest.

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