A Chatham-Kent farmer is confused by the municipality’s leadership in its greening strategy.
Steve Myslik became curious when he noticed several woodlots disappearing. He says he looked into it and found an investment company is purchasing the lots, clearing them and making room for farmland that can be sold as mutual funds.
Myslik isn’t sure why the municipality is allowing it to happen. “You’ll hear on the radio or see in the news that they’ve planted so many trees… 200, 300. And yet just down the road a ways, a whole woodlot is being eliminated and yet Chatham-Kent just stands back. They refuse to put any kind of regulation on it.”
Myslik has launched a website called Chatham-Kent Enough Is Enough for people to share information and discuss ways to preserve remaining woodlots.
Removing woodlots to make money on mutual funds is horrible. We have only 3% cover of trees in our municipality as is. I belong to the local horticultural society and to Communities in Bloom . Our goal is to plant more trees ,which we have been doing for years. Our society planted 200 trees last year in our municipal parks. Many farmers I know planted evergreen hedges to stop the soil from blowing away. We need more trees not less.
Heah Kathy….I’m sick of this slaughter too….The same trees that the government paid to have planted in windrows, are being bulldozed into piles…..These guys need to be stopped!
This is crazy, I remember as a Scout and as a Scout leader plants hundreds of trees. C-K Council needs to step up and take a leadership role in this!
Back in the 1960′s we had a large wood lot and we didn’t pay taxes on the bush area as we did not allow hunting in that bush and only used the old dead trees to burn to heat our house. What happened since then I would like to know.
This is also happening in lakeshore and our municipality leaders and our provincial government should be working together to put a stop to it. We are removing more trees than we are replacing it seems ,some of them 75 to 100 years old .These groups are only concerned about what they can put in their bank account not the effects this has on the environment and the , If the property they purchase has a wood lot , treeline,or bush on it,those trees should not be allowed to be removed,