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Natural Resources committee No, it's not going to disappear.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric
Natural Resources committee Eradication is not possible, unfortunately. The control program is a suppression program. We try to bring it down to a tolerable level, tolerable to residents and tolerable to the environment.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric
Natural Resources committee We use integrated pest management in general, which is a set of tools from doing nothing, to creating awareness, to managing the pests with pesticide or eradication efforts by removing infested trees. There's quite a variety
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric
Natural Resources committee Generally, yes. That's right—not just individual trees, but in the scope of the environment.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric
Natural Resources committee We do co-operate with other cities. The City of Toronto is part of the greater Toronto area where we have similar problems. Just recently, we co-operated on gypsy moth treatment programs. The emerald ash borer is a threat to the entire area. It's passing into Nova Scotia now. The
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric
Natural Resources committee For the spray?
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric
Natural Resources committee It's 700 to 800 hectares.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric
Natural Resources committee We can expect different outbreaks. The existing ones might disappear as the host species disappear, as the emerald ash borer wiped out ash species in Toronto. We might have them back in the future. The gypsy moth is a good example, which Beth brought up. The minimal temperatures
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Jozef Ric