Learning urban forestry the hard way in the nation’s capital

Worrying about trees during a pandemic might seem a diversion for dilettantes. But these trees are an important element of our everyday environment and part of what helps make it an attractive urban space.
One tends to look to government for solutions in this kind of situation. But governments have, of course, been understandably overloaded because of COVID-19. Still, the blasé attitude of officialdom can be annoying to anyone who has collected and killed thousands of caterpillars in hopes of saving trees, writes Les Whittington.
OTTAWA—This year is decidedly the low point in a new experience for people in the nation’s capital in the midst of the worst outbreak ever of caterpillar moths. As in other cities in southern Ontario, Ottawa has some areas, particularly in the parks, where one can’t help but notice the trees w...

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