They have thus been preserved down to today. When a large banyan tree was "unfortunately" growing where a highway was planned to be widened at Toucheng in Ilan, the housing department's urban planning section demanded that the local authorities remove it. In the end, a nearby temple gave up its own land for the road to pass through and the tree was saved.
宜蘭頭城大坑地方，一棵大榕樹就因為「不巧」長在規劃拓寬的二支四號道路中心，住宅都市計畫局硬要地方公所把位置騰出來，為此，鄰近的協天宮就提供讓道路繞道的土地，樹因此未被驅離。