{"id":862,"date":"2008-05-04T17:28:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T22:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/05\/04\/its-not-easy-being-green\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:10:09","slug":"its-not-easy-being-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/04\/its-not-easy-being-green\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s not easy being green"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sing it, Kermit<\/a>: it’s not easy being green, as Le Devoir demonstrated this weekend in a feature on Montreal’s trees. Despite the vital role they plan in improving the city’s air quality, cooling its streets and improving the city’s ambiance, our 265,000 street trees suffer from abuse by snowplows, road salt and mean-spirited passersby. (Last winter, I saw a snowplow destroy a fairly sizable tree, and last summer, I witnessed three drunk men snap a baby tree in half on Ste. Catherine Street.) Here’s more from Le Devoir<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Expos\u00e9s au vent, \u00e0 la pollution, aux sels de d\u00e9gla\u00e7age et aux agressions diverses, les 265 000 arbres plant\u00e9s en bordure de rue \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al endurent en silence leur triste sort. Dans les secteurs r\u00e9sidentiels, certains atteignent une envergure respectable, surtout s’ils sont plant\u00e9s en parterre, mais au centre-ville et le long des art\u00e8res commerciales, leur survie tient souvent du miracle. Ch\u00e9tifs, rabougris, le tronc portant les marques de blessures anciennes ou r\u00e9centes, ces arbres t\u00e9moignent de leurs difficiles conditions de vie. Inutile de se fier au diam\u00e8tre de leur tronc pour \u00e9valuer leur \u00e2ge: en milieu hostile, certains arbres cessent de cro\u00eetre apr\u00e8s leur plantation, pr\u00e9vient Pierre Jutras, agronome \u00e0 la Division de l’horticulture et de l’arboriculture de la Ville: \u00abLe long des rues commerciales, il y a des arbres qui ont vingt ans mais dont le diam\u00e8tre est \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s \u00e9quivalent \u00e0 celui qu’ils avaient au moment o\u00f9 ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 plant\u00e9s. Ils ne croissent pas ou leur croissance est tr\u00e8s r\u00e9duite.\u00bb <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite having to replace many of them each year, though, the city still does not have any reliable way of evaluating the health of Montreal’s trees. That might soon change<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Depuis 2001, la Division de l’horticulture et de l’arboriculture de la Ville dispose d’un protocole de suivi \u00e0 long terme de 1500 arbres r\u00e9partis dans les arrondissements de Ville-Marie, Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Rosemont-Petite-Patrie et Plateau Mont-Royal. La croissance et la sant\u00e9 de ces arbres plant\u00e9s le long de rues commerciales et r\u00e9sidentielles permettront de mieux \u00e9valuer leurs r\u00e9actions aux agressions dont ils sont victimes.<\/p>\n

Mais la Ville a un projet plus ambitieux: r\u00e9pertorier tous les arbres montr\u00e9alais afin d’en dresser un inventaire g\u00e9or\u00e9f\u00e9renc\u00e9 qui se transposera \u00e9ventuellement \u00e0 celui des immeubles de la ville. Pierre Jutras a donc d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 de nouveaux param\u00e8tres qui ont jusqu’\u00e0 maintenant \u00e9t\u00e9 utilis\u00e9s par deux arrondissements, ceux du Sud-Ouest et de Lachine. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although City Hall is slowly starting to take better care of its trees, it still does a pretty shameful job compared to other cities. For reasons that have never been clear to me, tree planters on many streets are missing their protective grates, which is both dangerous for pedestrians and harmful for the tree. Montrealers take this as an invitation to use the tree planter as a garbage bin, so trees on many commercial streets—Ste. Catherine in particular—are inundated with trash. Cyclists often lock their bikes to young trees, which can potentially be harmed and killed by the bike, and snowplow drivers are particularly careless; this past winter, at least 28 trees were killed by snow removal crews in the Southwest borough alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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