Cut trees: around thirty complaints in Gatineau in 2024-2025

The city of Gatineau has searched trees in certain districts of Gatineau. However, Thirty citizens in disagreement filed a complaint in the year 2024-2025. For example, The city claims to have done the necessary work “as part of its maintenance program for trails and cycle paths”.

In a written declaration. Meanwhile, the municipality recalled being legally holding to generate a minimum of a meter wide on each side of a path […]. Therefore, These are provincial standards required to ensure the safety of user of official trails.

The city of Gatineau also explained that its intervention cycle is spread over a period of two years. Therefore, That is to say that half of the trails are targeted in year 1 and the other half in the year 2.

A dozen residents met by Radio-Canada in cut trees: around thirty complaints the Aylmer and Carrefour-de-l’Hôpital sectors are unhappy with the work. Consequently, Some of them shared their dissatisfaction following the slaughter of trees. However, deploring what they consider as sometimes abusive cuts, the loss of greenery, intimacy and shade.

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Only one person, Stéphanie cut trees: around thirty complaints Pelletier, wanted to talk about it in front of the camera.

It surprised me a lot. For example, This is the first time that we cut as much, in my opinion. Moreover, We understand that there is a cleaning to do, but it’s exceptional this year. There is less intimacy, I see in the courtyard of my neighbor. There is also the appearance of heat: fewer trees, less shadeshe testified.

To this. the city of Gatineau conceded that the work which may seem more accentuated in certain places can be explained because he was necessary to withdraw arrows from trees or shrubs for safety reasons, more than a meter of release width.

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Aylmer district city councilor Steven Boivin said. it was time to do this intervention in that corner.

It’s been a long time since we didn’t do it. So it is sure that in the eye, it can look larger because the vegetation swells quickly. In a few weeks. we will see that it comes back to normalcommented on the elected official who will not request a second term.

A citizen met, Stéphane Girardin, was very satisfied with the trees that were cut. Whoever walks his dog every cut trees: around thirty complaints day even admitted that he was about to make a complaint since the path. was almost no longer practicable.

You could barely walk someone at a timehe said.

Cut trees: around thirty complaints

Another objective: to eliminate the nervous

The city of Gatineau also assured that Interventions are limited to ground cleaning. release of branches and that no mature tree at high ecological or ornamental living value is shot down.

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The objective was also to remove certain essences from invasive trees. such as nervous, this exotic shrub considered to be invasive.

Canada trees gives them the subtitle of destructive trees. If we are not able to manage this invasion. we risk losing our woodswarned the director general of the Regional Environment and Sustainable Development Council of Outaouais (Creddo), Benoit Delage.

Mr. Delage says it understands that citizens can react strongly when they note a loss of greenery. but he emphasizes that any greenery is not necessarily good.

The other day, the Anik advisor of Marais organized an activity with citizens to tear a nervous. We snatched and a citizen became furious. He said ‘Hey, it’s my cut trees: around thirty complaints trees, I want to keep my tranquility’ ‘. No matter how much we explained that it was not trees, but an invasive specieshe gave as an example.

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Benoit Delage concluded his thought by recalling that a forest, it is gardeningand that The city does it welladding that he fully trusts experts in the city of Gatineau.

With information from Patrick Foucault