One of the City's forest health care
inspectors visited Sam Smith Park yesterday to look at beaver damage.
He noted
that the park has been monitored for beaver activity for approx. 20 years, and
most of the valuable native trees have already been wrapped. He did notice that
some of these trees are outgrowing their wire wrapping, so staff will focus on
adjusting the wire wrapping (although this is not urgent and will be addressed
after spring planting season).
He says there is no excessive or unusual damage,
but did note that trees previously lost have not been replaced.
They will look
into planting additional trees (and wrapping them as they are planted if they
are near the pond). Given the time of year, this will likely happen in the
fall.
1 comment:
I hope they leave some unwrapped trees for the beavers. Beavers are so loved by park goers and photographers, but we don't make life easy for them with all the armourstone shorelines and wrapped trees. One lived in a void between the rocks by Amos Waites. I don't think it made it through the winter. Our national animal deserves a little love.
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