Plans to Axe Local Maple Trees

Plans to Axe Local Maple Trees

Bad news out of Vancouver BC, Chris Wall, who has lived for 17 years on the same block as many of the broad, leafy trees, said he fears the community administrators are committed to seeing them gone despite what residents think about the idea.

“The death warrant’s been signed,” Wall said in an interview this week. “We don’t have a lot of time.”

Wall said residents have started a petition aimed at reversing what they see as an arbitrary decision to remove the trees, and he said some are prepared to go as far as chaining themselves to the trees to keep them standing.

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