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The world's fattest tree, a Chestnut Tree known as the Tree of One Hundred Horses, grew on Sisily's Mount Elna and measured 190 feet in circumference . . . .
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"Maple trees centuries old topple: Fight
 to Save Trees fails but new battle begins."

The Mississauga News (cover)July 17, 1998



 
"Couple fights for Mississauga Trees."

The Toronto Star, July 21, 1998



 
"Lack of Bylaw Dooms Mississauga Trees"

The Globe and Mail, July 25, 1998



 
 Editorial "A Case for the Trees"

The Mississauga News, Aug 9, 1998



 
"Residents flocked to the Garden Party"

The Mississauga News, Aug 19, 1998



 
"Student fights for trees"

The Medium (cover), Aug 27, 1998



 
"Kallis promotes tree by-law: UTM student
fights for preservation of local trees"

The Medium (cover), Sept 21, 1998



 
"Tree Hugger"

The Mississauga News (cover) Sept 24, 1998



 
"Woman loses battle to save Maple Tree"

The Toronto Star, Sept 24, 1998



 
"Student Activist Arrested"

The Medium, Sept 28, 1998



 
"He's Treed Off"

The Toronto Sun, Oct 7, 1998



 
"A Symbolic Sign to Save the Trees"

The Mississauga News (cover)
Oct 9, 1998



 
"Angry artist produces award winning effort"

The Mississauga News, Dec 16, 1998



 
"City to look at revamping tree bylaws"

The Mississauga News, Jan 8, 1999



 
"Tree debate creates buzz saw of emotion"

The Mississauga News, May 12, 1999



 
"Trees felled during OMB hearing:
Property Serverance denied"

The Mississauga News, August 4, 1999



 
"Bylaw for trees unlikely for city:
the tree plan is no plan"

The Mississauga News, October 20, 1999



 
"Tree Pilot Project begins in Ward !:
Council changes course on trees"

The Mississauga News, October 22, 1999



 
"Long-waited plan ready to go:
New bylaw will regulate tree-cutting"

The Mississauga News, June 9, 2000



 
"Lumberjacks take heed:
tree bylaw gets approved"

The Mississauga News, June 28, 2000



 
Keep an eye on your local newspaper. Respond. Write letters to the editor.

This supportive letter was printed in the Mississauga News.

 
 
Tribute to a Tree
As I turned the corner onto Front Street South
 in Port Credit on Thursday, Sept 24, 1998, I
 was stunned by the brutality evidenced in the
 apparition in front of my eyes. Tree stood there
 (its nudity only heightened by stark autumn
 afternoon light) with its huge, mighty, barren
 limbs stretching upward - as though screaming
 into the sky -savaged by the whining chainsaws.

 The sight of this waste and thoughtless
 destruction will remain seared in my memory
 forever. Only a day before, Tree had stood
 there in all its magnificence, a symbol of
 strength and endurance - set back in a lot that
 borders the mouth of the Credit River.  It had
 kept vigil for almost three hundred years - 300
 years !! Imagine what stories it could have told
 about our heritage - from silent canoes gliding
 into the mouth of the river, through an
 industrial explosion and into a chip generation.
 How Tree must have mused over the antics
 of mankind.

 This dastardly deed demands some answers!
 -Who ordered the chain saws and why was
 this historical icon not included in the plans
 that will restructure this land?  Wouldn't
 'Tree Haven Harbour' have been a wonderful
 name for the homesite to be constructed there?

 -Where are the laws to ensure that this
 wanton destruction of our past does not
 continue! (last month it was the site up
 Mississauga Road, just north of Lakeshore Rd,
 this month, on Front Street - where next?)

 -Who are the elected officials responsible for
 the protection of our city's future and past?

 -And where are we - the citizens who sit by
 and let this happen and say nothing?

  A brave few tried their best when they heard
 of what was to happen.  The late TV news of
 Weds, September 23, 1998 highlighted this
 plight and told of a real hero who climbed Tree
 in a valiant effort to thwart the ravage that was
 to come. Thank you, courageous lady, for
 Tree's hug into eternity and your demonstration
 that one level of nature's creation deeply 
 respects another. 

 Thoreau, at the time Tree was probably just a
 sapling, wrote his memorable essay "Civil
 Disobedience" and I know he would have lent
 credence to your bold and brave actions. In
 years to come when your grandchildren ask
 you why anyone didn't stop this disgraceful
 event, you can look them squarely in the eye
 and say "I DID MY BEST".  I wish I could
 have had this honour.
 Written with respect for the past and deep
 regret for my presumption that, in Mississauga,
 all our precious natural resources are
 protected.
                                               Carolyn D. Farr


 
 
 
 
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