Plant saplings to replace BIG TREES in front yards
When is the best time to plant a new tree? Yesterday. Residential streets in Kitchissippi Ward are losing hundreds of mature trees due to...
Ghastly goings-on on Gould Street
Imagine the stress you’d experience if both sides of your property were reverberating with the sounds of whining wood saws and thudding...
Maulings in May
Trees are falling like autumn leaves. This odd but apt metaphor emerges from what I'm seeing and hearing this spring in Kitchissippi...
Protecting Hampton Park Woods
(Photo from 2015--ash trees removed from upper woods) The Hampton Park Woods have been under severe stress for the last several years,...
Take back the streets
Recent discussion on a community list serve about the destruction of trees on James Street in Centretown highlights the sad history of...
Trees must be a true priority during this term of council
The regional municipality and a group of creative videography students in Halifax have created an astoundingly excellent 5-minute video...
Invite municipal candidates to a tree-loving event during National Forest Week
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...
Urban trees: lost and found
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...
Mapping lost trees of Ottawa
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....
Join guerrilla gardeners of Roosevelt Ave. & local politicians at their Lily Pad
A group of neighbours living on Roosevelt Ave. is thrilled that Catherine McKenna, the M.P. for Ottawa Centre and the Minister of the...
