They want to cut down hundreds of beautiful poplars, but the inhabitants rebel. Let's help them!

They want to cut down hundreds of beautiful poplars, but the inhabitants rebel. Let's help them!

The battle of the citizens of Peschiera Borromeo does not stop, to stop the felling of 240 cypress poplars in via Galvani.

The battle of the citizens of Peschiera Borromeo, a town of 20 inhabitants on the outskirts of Milan, continues to stop the felling of 240 cypress poplars in via Galvani. Now a new petition starts online to ask the mayor Caterina Molinari to open up to dialogue.





Let's see in detail what is happening. Protests, petitions, requests for clarification and requests for now have not served until now, because the Molinari junta has issued an order to cut down these poplars whose roots would represent a problem.

There are a total of 240 cypress poplars that make the avenue a small green lung. Except that, at the beginning of June, the municipality decided to cut them all down, to plant in their place 163 ash trees of one and a half meters in their place and on the side of the sheds a hedge made up of 700 hornbeam seedlings, one meter and twenty high.

"If you calculate that an average single tree eats 30 to 50 kg of CO2, multiply it by 240 and then for 20 years, because this is the time it will take these ash trees (assuming they live) to reach the leaf mass of the our poplars, a crazy figure turns up, something like 240 tons of carbon dioxide that remains in the atmosphere. We all know that CO2 is the main cause of all our climatic woes, instead trees give us oxygen which for us is life ”, reads on Facebook.

But why are poplars being cut down?

"Initially the reason for the felling was attributed to the fact that the roots of these poplars have ruined the cycle path that runs alongside a row, among other things a track that is not very long and of relative importance, so the municipal administration asks the South Park for authorization to cut down 163 poplars, the South Park, after a very quick inspection, incredibly grants it immediately. This takes place in autumn 2019, in March 2020 the municipality commissions an agronomist, dr. Giorgetti, of instrumental tests on 4 trees, then this agronomist performs 4 core samples and 4 wind traction tests. The cores show that the subsoil does not have a suitable soil for the roots because it is a fill earth and the traction tests, carried out at a power similar to Hurricane Katrina about 120 km per hour, establish the danger of trees. Hence the decision to demolish all 240 of them starting from July 4th ”, we read again.



Hence, peaceful protests in the square by citizens and environmental associations calling for a stop to the felling, not only to save the trees but also many birds that are nesting on the cypress poplars in this period. But the odyssey does not end there. The municipality postpones everything to the end of August and asks opponents to bring a counter-report in just 15 days.

"A mockery. But we women do not give up and find an agronomist who takes our side. This agronomist comes to see this avenue and is fascinated by its beauty, he even says that in forty years of activity it is the first time that he has seen such an avenue and that these trees could be inscribed among the monumental trees ".

Here is what is happening in Peschiera Borromeo, a town of over 20.000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Milan. In this small ...

Posted by Francesca Flore on Sunday, August 30, 2020

Giorgetti analyzes the appraisal and 'finds it superficial, incomplete, questionable, inconsistent and approximate'. "To complete the counter-report he must carry out the instrumental tests on the same trees on which the agronomist's report of the municipality was made but the necessary authorization from the administration is late in arriving and in the meantime the holidays arrive. another preliminary report made by an elderly professor who has written hundreds of books on which today's agronomists study and is an expert on poplars even worldwide, even this preliminary report is absolutely against killing ".

Finally, the authorization for instrumental tests arrives, but with a rigid date of 20 August when the agronomist Zanzi is on vacation. “But they don't care, on the contrary they decide to commission their agronomist another ten tests. Our Dr. Zanzi sends his team of collaborators and in the past few days he has made 4 technical tests on the same trees tested by Giorgetti and in the next few days we will know the result ".



But the Municipality has all the resolutions already signed so at any time the demolition work could start, but the six women are not there. “We are on alert, support us in our battle so that such a beautiful tree heritage is maintained and secured”, the group commented.

A new petition has now been launched:

SIGN THE PETITION HERE

Source: Francesca Flore / Facebook

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