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Kate 19:19 on 2024-12-12 Permalink Reply  

• Blork 22:36 on 2024-12-12 Permalink

  It will be weird to walk in the park and not see dozens of deer, but really that’s just bringing things back to normal. (It used to be there was maybe a 10% chance of seeing a deer on a walk through the woods; in the last few years changed to about 98%.)

  The replanting has already begun. Hundreds of trees have been planted along the pathways over the past month. It’s good to know that many more will be too. There are entire sections that are essentially dead zones because they were ash groves and now they’re just standing deadwood zones (some have been cleared but many not). Some of the deeper paths have been closed for more than a year, apparently because of the risk of falling dead trees, which I think is a bit much. Loads of people just walk around the barriers and go there anyway.

• Orr 14:43 on 2024-12-13 Permalink

  On a windy day tho it would be good idea not to go into a dead forest. Don’t ask me how I learned this.

• Ian 21:04 on 2024-12-13 Permalink

  Noted, sounds like good advice & I won’t ask.

  In the end, did we hear what was done with the deer? I know there was talk of the meat being sent off to food banks but it would have to be inspected first & all that so I wondered.

• Kate 13:31 on 2024-12-14 Permalink

  Toward the bottom of the Radio-Canada piece it says, “Comme lors de la première opération d’abattage, en octobre dernier, la viande de gibier a été donnée à Moisson Rive-Sud afin qu’il la distribue à des gens dans le besoin. La première phase avait permis d’offrir 12 850 portions de viande à l’organisme.”

• Ian 19:21 on 2024-12-14 Permalink

  Ah, i missed that. Thank you.