By Judith van Berkom – Spreading Roots in Westboro is a community theatre project designed to celebrate Westboro’s trees and green spaces through story and song. The production has been evolving over the summer and the final performance – starring some Westboro friends and neighbours – will be […]
By Andrea Prazmowski – Daniel Buckles and Catherine Shearer are getting better acquainted with their neighbourhood, one tree at a time. You might see them and other volunteers out on the streets, peering at the leaves of trees, inspecting their branches, wrapping measuring tape around their trunks, and […]
Submitted by Daniel Buckles – It is an unarguable truth that big trees in Kitchissippi are in a dramatic state of decline. The natural life cycle of trees (several times a human life for many species) drives some of this loss. The large footprint of most infill development […]
Dear Editor, When the front door is barred, a clever intruder tests the back door. That’s what infill developers in Kitchissippi have been doing in the last year to 18 months. They are aware that the City’s 2009 Urban Tree Conservation By-law prevents them from cutting trees 50 […]
Q: I was walking the dog along the Byron Avenue path across the road from Maplelawn when I noticed some new trees had been planted there. Upon closer inspection I realized they were apple trees. They’ll obviously take a few years to bear fruit, but I was surprised […]
By Denise Deby – Local trees are at risk, and the community and city need to do more to protect them, according to residents who attended a March 8 Ecology Ottawa meeting to gather ideas for a new program called Tree Ottawa. “Treed neighbourhoods are wonderful to live […]
By Denise Deby – Kids and adults celebrated their neighbourhood and some very special trees on September 25, National Tree Day, thanks to Champlain Park community members who’ve taken an interest in the area’s bur oaks. About 70 students in Grades 2 and 6 at St. George School […]
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