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The Familia
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Mountain Man
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Those big old Poplars look awful, I think it's time to replant the rest of them now.
Calgary to plant 930,000 new trees to increase urban canopy
Calgary is set to see a massive increase in the number of trees throughout the city.
Red Star
New Member
Planting trees is easy! Gotta find a way to keep them alive during the dry spells in summer.Calgary to plant 930,000 new trees to increase urban canopy
Calgary is set to see a massive increase in the number of trees throughout the city.calgary.ctvnews.ca
Mountain Man
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Haha yeah no kidding, we can pant all the trees we want, if nobody waters them though...
At least for the first few years. U/D is a good example, the trees look good there, and I've seen watering trucks tending to the trees several times.
trtcttc
Active Member
For city trees planted in front of residential properties (city owned tree on city land), is it the homeowner's responsibility to water, trim, and take care of it? Our street is road-sidewalk-city grass-private grass, so there's not a clear delineation of city to private land, compared to streets with the sidewalk in between the city and private portion.
It's a bit confusing since you're expected to water/trim the grass on city land, and obviously shovel the public sidewalk. But then the bylaw states: "Cutting, removing, moving, or pruning City trees is strictly prohibited without City permission."
It's a bit confusing since you're expected to water/trim the grass on city land, and obviously shovel the public sidewalk. But then the bylaw states: "Cutting, removing, moving, or pruning City trees is strictly prohibited without City permission."
Where I used to live the city planted new trees along the city owned strip, and I used to water the ones in front of my place, but ultimately it was the city's responsibility, which they didn't do very well, as half the trees died within two years. A couple of years after that they replanted a bunch, and last time I was by there, the trees looked good.
DougB
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Yeah. This is a plan for 750,000 dead trees
CBBarnett
Senior Member
People seem to be reading too much into this. Technically it's not really a plan either nor claiming to be one - it's just funding for trees.
I think that's a really good thing in itself - and a pre-requisite to any plan or strategy being implementable. For perspective, the current forestry capital budget is about $5M / year - so this funding is 12x the annual amount we currently invest in trees. We have no details on how that money can be used - perhaps watering costs to get the trees established is allowed.
Kind of surprised that nearly a million trees only costs $61M bucks. A single interchange can be far more than this.
DougB
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Seedlings are cheap and almost always die in Calgary's climate.
Cowtown
Senior Member
True, seedlings are cheap. I suspect it might be more costly to water them regularly than the one time cost of buying and planting them.
Still it would make sense to spend the money up front to water them, if anything it helps speed up the overall build of the tree canopy.
Still it would make sense to spend the money up front to water them, if anything it helps speed up the overall build of the tree canopy.
DougB
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...or plant fewer trees and actually maintain them. Planting also often seems to ignore that trees planted after about June struggle to survive and those in exposed areas like west or south facing slopes almost always die.