Smelling of wood chips and with trucks rumbling by full of tree limbs, the former golf range at Gerrard Street and Victoria Park Avenue felt like a sawmill yard last week. Converted into a temporary holding site for waste wood, it is now part of Toronto’s $75 million clean-up from the December ice storm. But […]
Tag: Emerald Ash Borer
Trees in the Beach need our help to thrive and survive
“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?” My friend was, of course, being facetious. Whenever I see a well-aged, previously majestic and indestructible-looking giant broken and defeated, I find it a sad sight indeed. Fallen trees leave gaps in our daily lives […]
Movement to save trees gets organized
There’s an unseen war going on at insect level in Toronto. At stake is the fate of well over 800,000 trees – a huge part of the green canopy that covers much of the city outside of the downtown core. The emerald ash borer (EAB), a little green bug with a huge appetite, tunnels under […]
If an ash tree falls in the city…
They’re green. They hail from Asia. And their babies kill trees – lots of trees. The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is a beetle that is largely responsible for the annihilation of the city’s ash trees. It was first discovered in Windsor in 2002 and had made its way to Toronto by 2007. The City of […]
