August 25, 2016
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To the Editor:
RE: "Readers outraged at loss of maple trees at Kincardine Avenue and Fraser Drive"
This is my first letter to a paper ever, so please be patient.
First off, I love trees also. I'm not a "tree hugger," but I love to look at them, sit under them and I understand what they do to keep us alive. I don't like them very much in the late fall, but, I digress.
Asking Kincardine council to control who can remove trees, what trees and when, is not council's job, nor should it be. If I own the property they are on and I want to take them down, I'm taking them down.
How about we pass a bylaw that says, if you want them protected, buy the property?
There are already way too many bylaws saying what I can and cannot do with property that I own. I'm sure council isn't looking forward to all the time and energy it's going to take, sifting through what trees can stay or go.
In closing, I also wish the trees could've remained; however, it's not my property.
Jim Dickson
Kincardine
Dear Editor:
I was going to remain silent on the issue of cutting the maple trees but after seeing more letters which are quite negative to governments and developers, I feel I need to respond.
I love trees and hate to see trees cut down just as much as everyone else. However, I imagine that where most of us have our houses built, there were trees, too, at one time.
There are trees being cut down daily and yet I do not hear the uproar that is appearing now. I think this is more about the development and not about climate change.
Yes, every tree helps with climate change but are we all planting trees? Are we helping to preserve the wildlife and trees we have or do most people want nice green lawns that are unnatural to our environment?
I see disregard for trees and nature continually and it saddens me, but I think we need to look at ourselves, and plant trees on our own property, before we start blaming others.
Margaret Visser
Huron-Kinloss
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