BIG TREES of Kitchissippi

Earth Day online event 5 p.m. EDT

When is the best time to plant a new tree? Yesterday. Residential streets in Kitchissippi Ward are losing hundreds of mature trees due to...

Imagine the stress you’d experience if both sides of your property were reverberating with the sounds of whining wood saws and thudding...

Trees are falling like autumn leaves. This odd but apt metaphor emerges from what I'm seeing and hearing this spring in Kitchissippi...

(Photo from 2015--ash trees removed from upper woods) The Hampton Park Woods have been under severe stress for the last several years,...

Recent discussion on a community list serve about the destruction of trees on James Street in Centretown highlights the sad history of...

The regional municipality and a group of creative videography students in Halifax have created an astoundingly excellent 5-minute video...

Ecology Ottawa is inviting YOU to create a tree-loving event for candidates in your municipal ward. It's all about putting trees on the...

Too many of us know about lost trees in the city of Ottawa. As many as 80,000 ash trees have died due to a tiny green insect. In the...

Go to the Map. Residents of Ottawa have witnessed and lamented the loss of 50,000 ash trees on city property alone in recent years....

A group of neighbours living on Roosevelt Ave. is thrilled that Catherine McKenna, the M.P. for Ottawa Centre and the Minister of the...

BIG TREES of Kitchissippi is a citizens' group with reps from 9 community associations and volunteer-run groups in Kitchissippi Ward:

The Champlain Oaks Project,

Volunteer Gardeners of Claire Gardens Park,
Wellington Village Community Association,

Westboro Community Association,

Civic Hospital Neighbourhood
Association,

Westboro Beach Community Association,

Champlain Park Community Association,

McKellar Park Community Association, Hampton-Iona Community Group

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We care about protecting the healthy, mature trees that are increasingly being destroyed due to large-scale infill housing.

We urge city staff and politicians to support and enforce two by-laws that relate to trees on municipal and private property.

We invite citizens to get involved in advocating for protection of healthy, mature trees in Kitchissippi Ward.