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Someone wants to remove 90+ endangered (and already rare) Butternut trees to build a trailer park? This does not make sense. Anywhere even a few Butternut are found should be protected for research and conservation purposes.

I think the plan by the owner should proceed as long as the seedlings are moved to a proper location. Also, it would help in conservation if extra seedlings are offered to the public for sale.

[Original Comment ID: 215579]

As a student who plans on staying in the Peterborough area I do not want this request to go through. I am aware of the role these trees, and the habitat they create, plays in our environment and I believe it would be a sore mistake to have so many of them removed from out area.

As a resident of Otonabee I wish not to see mature trees lost.

[Original Comment ID: 215581]

Mature butternut trees that can produce seed are vanishing at an alarming rate due to butternut canker, and even if replanting was attempted, new plantings have a very low chance of reaching reproductive maturity. For a seasonal trailer park, of which OSM already has plenty?

Dear Mr. Elger,

Having worked with environmental conservation organisations in this past, I'm well familiar with the situation of our indigenous butternut trees. Although integral to the ecosystems in which they are found, they are nevertheless a fragile species.

I would like to see these Butternut Trees preserved.

[Original Comment ID: 215590]

An "overall benefit" for the species will not be created by just planting seedlings. Has seedling mortality been taken into account? How many of the seedlings planted will actually make it to the stage of the felled trees?

I would like to add my voice in opposition to the proposed destruction of the 93 butternut trees and their habitat.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
#8213; Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

[Original Comment ID: 215592]

The developer is proposing the following:

Butternut trees are on the endangered list and thus need protection. Although the permit states it will protect as many as possible I believe this is defined enough and leaves a lot of room for interpretation.

Unbelievable... simply unbelievable. 93 mature butternut trees at risk on the Rice Lake Plains - for what - for even more recreational trailer spots - 251?? This is likely the largest grove of these endangered trees in the entire region.

Trees are essential for physical and mental health, aside from their value in the ecology of the environment. Butternut trees ought not to be razed willy-nilly, for all sorts of reasons, one being that residents of any trailer park without trees have no quality of life.

Since the butternut trees are endangered and this is an ideal habitat for the growth of butternut trees, I oppose the permit request by Bellemere Holdings.

To whom it may concern: I am a local lifelong farmer. Bellemere Winds went to municipal council in Keene Ont and asked that the property be designated as Open Space - in order to protect the forest they said.