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City invests $1 million to increase efforts to combat Emerald Ash Borer

Emerald Ash Borer is poised to destroy many of Ottawa’s majestic Ash trees in 2013.  Acting together is the best way to save your neighbourhood’s Ash trees. Discounts you can expect when treating more than a single tree. 18 March 2013

Greenspace Alliance Of Canada’s Capital Emerald Ash Borer Working Group For Immediate Release PDF version City Hall and Residents must act now to save ash trees OTTAWA, July 22 — On July 11th the City of Ottawa issued a news release announcing that City Council had approved an additional $1 million for 2012 to increase the treatment of ash trees and the planting of new trees in efforts to combat

Email to Mayor Watson and all Councillors 7 May 2012 Dear Mayor Watson, The Emerald Ash Borer infestation will have an impact on Ottawa like none other this City has faced before. The Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital has put together a Working Group that is finalizing a Position Paper to further a productive discussion with City staff and others and to help enlist public support to respond to this

Email from David Barkley, Manager – Forestry Services, Ottawa [See also a Memo from staff to Council, 23 April 2012] 24 April 2012 Mr. Shuster, The 2008 Report is the Strategy that set out the high level approach for EAB in Ottawa, each year since then at Committee staff have updated Councillors on actions being taken, much of this information is found on the City’s web site at http://www.ottawa.ca/en/env_water/tlg/trees/preservation/eab/index.html. I

For Immediate Release Ottawa, May 24, 2012: Community groups and environmental organizations are sounding the alarm that unless the City of Ottawa opts to immediately start treating the bulk of its Ash trees threatened by Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), this City will be facing an economic and environmental crisis not seen before. The Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital released the attached detailed Position Paper at a news conference today, outlining

It’s VERY interesting to compare the three articles below. The first from the Citizen is dated April 17, 2012, and the second from the Sun is dated July 12, 2011. The third was published in the Sun, also on April 17. The first indicates that there “may” be a home for felled infected Ash trees in LRT stations, but the second published nine months ago calls these trees a “windfall

April 19, 2012 Ann Coffey reports: The attached PDF from Vermont (632 KB) states: “Management practices that eliminate ash could be a greater threat to ash than EAB itself”. Retain ash to provide wildlife benefits. Consider ash as a seed source, and unhealthy ash trees as potential future snags. Dead trees may be used for nesting, feeding and/or as a perch site. Where practical, and with due consideration of safety,

A first call to action, sponsored by the Greenspace Alliance and the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre (April 18, 2012) Lessons from Vermont Ash trees a windfall for the LRT? Media coverage, letters to the editor and to Council Say it with pictures TreeAzin Booklet from BioForest Technologies Media Release of May 24, 2012 A position paper: Saving Ottawa’s Trees Correspondence with City Hall >> City of Ottawa news release, July 11,