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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>This appeared on another list when a colleague of mine recently
visited Ontario. So my question is to all the Ontario municipal folks on this
list: “why are we still letting this happen?”. The meager money we
get here is largely for tree planting and we let other departments or our tree
people destroy the investment in future trees. This has bothered me for years
but no one seems to be able to change this. Why is this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'>“All, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Just came back from a trip to Ontario, Canada, and was truly awe
struck at the ubiquity of volcano mulching along virtually every street I
drove, hundreds of miles of nothing but street trees with root crowns covered.
This represents millions of dollars of wasted municipal tree money, as the
trees were for the most part in decline due (I assume from visual observation)
to anaerobic root crown conditions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Nobody I have spoken with seems to know any reason for its
existence/appearance in the landscape. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'>Comments? “<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Philip van Wassenaer,
B.SC., MFC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Urban Forest
Innovations Inc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>1253 Crossfield Bend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Mississauga, Ontario<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Canada, L5G 3P5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Tel: (905) 274-1022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Cell: (647) 221 3046<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Fax: (905) 274 2170<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:Pwassenaer1022@rogers.com"><span
style='color:blue'>Pwassenaer1022@rogers.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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