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National Capital Commission work crews are set to begin work Monday to cut down 40 dead or dying elm trees along the Confederation Boulevard route.
The trees, on Wellington and Elgin streets in Ottawa and Laurier Street in Gatineau are afflicted with Dutch elm disease and represent a potential danger to pedestrians and motorists.
The removal of trees by maintenance crews is expected to take a minimum of three weeks and will involve rotating lane closings.
The NCC says it will replace the trees this fall.
The Dutch elm disease fungus spreads through the roots and causes the tree to slowly decay. Since the 1970s, it has decimated the elm tree population in Canada’s Capital Region.
Earlier this week, Mario Fournier of the NCC said it has been a bad couple of years for some Ottawa elms that had survived decades since the fungal disease arrived.
“This is probably linked with the very dry summer in 2013. Since that summer we are seeing a lot of decline,” he said.
Fournier said the NCC is planting two commercial hybrids of elm called Liberty and Patriot which are bred to resist Dutch elm disease.
They won’t know how well these young elms succeed until the trunks are about 30 inches thick, he said, “but we’re crossing our fingers because it seems that where they tried it in the States, they succeed.”
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The trees, on Wellington and Elgin streets in Ottawa and Laurier Street in Gatineau are afflicted with Dutch elm disease and represent a potential danger to pedestrians and motorists.
The removal of trees by maintenance crews is expected to take a minimum of three weeks and will involve rotating lane closings.
The NCC says it will replace the trees this fall.
The Dutch elm disease fungus spreads through the roots and causes the tree to slowly decay. Since the 1970s, it has decimated the elm tree population in Canada’s Capital Region.
Earlier this week, Mario Fournier of the NCC said it has been a bad couple of years for some Ottawa elms that had survived decades since the fungal disease arrived.
“This is probably linked with the very dry summer in 2013. Since that summer we are seeing a lot of decline,” he said.
Fournier said the NCC is planting two commercial hybrids of elm called Liberty and Patriot which are bred to resist Dutch elm disease.
They won’t know how well these young elms succeed until the trunks are about 30 inches thick, he said, “but we’re crossing our fingers because it seems that where they tried it in the States, they succeed.”
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