So why now at this point, we're seeing such a big increase in the tree removals compared to previous years?

For sure, yeah.

This is kind of a natural progression of the situation.

Thunder Bay has a very high density of green ash trees in our urban boulevards and parks.

And so with the insect being present over the number of years, it has naturally been increasing in its activity.

So we're at the point now where we're doing fewer isolated individual tree removals and have to do some larger scale removals.

And this is related to the health of the trees we're seeing through monitoring and assessing.

right okay um so we're hearing about entire streets of these ash trees being removed can you walk us through just the reasoning behind that like instead of just a couple trees