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The Councilor for the Modernization of Administration and Urban Development, José Guillén, participates in Madrid in a symposium on management of urban trees, where he has exhibited the annual and semi-annual care and reviews that the technical services devote to the 116,000 copies distributed by the municipality.
At an operational level, the City of Murcia carries out tree management with pruning plans, phytosanitary treatments, meadows treatments, mowing campaigns, dismantling and planting campaigns, flower planting campaigns and irrigation planning.
The City Parks and Gardens area is finalizing the drafting of a Tree Management Plan whose objective is to determine the necessary measures to safeguard and extend the protection of the green spaces of the municipality and, at the same time, advance in its better planning.
At present, the metropolitan area of ​​Murcia has more than 3,000 parks and gardens, 116,000 trees, 210 different species and 3,936,752 m² of garden areas, which translates into almost 9 m2 per inhabitant.
This was explained today by the Councilor for the Modernization of Administration and Urban Development, José Guillén, who has participated in a symposium on urban tree management organized by the Madrid City Council.
Guillén has spoken at a panel discussion on 'The political commitment to forest risk management in Europe', which also took the floor the delegate of the Government of Environment and Mobility of the City of Madrid, the councilor of Public Spaces and Festive Activities of the City Council of San Sebastián and the person in charge of Espacios Vedes of the Metropolis of Strasbourg.
Singular trees, singular treatments
'The tree in the city develops ornamental and landscape functions and is part of its historical artistic heritage, so it requires proper management of the existing specimens and an accurate distribution of the new ones,' said Guillen during the session, in which It has also referred to the 900 units that are part of the municipal catalog of unique trees of Murcia, among which are examples that, either by monumentality or by their uniqueness, undergo an exhaustive review every 6 months, generating a record report of them completely updated.
Within these unique trees, the Macrophyla Ficus receive a special and more intense treatment because they generate more problems of coexistence with climate change, since they can not withstand the sharp difference in temperature between day and night and in Murcia there is a Thermal variation of between 13 and 14 degrees in spring and autumn.
Another differentiated treatment that other species receive is the annual pruning of orange trees to eliminate fruit and shape, and the pruning of mulberry trees in traditional huertano format, once a year.
For the rest of the trees, a pruning campaign for training in winter and another one for summer refining and elimination of annoying branches are planned.
Living with the idiosyncrasies of each species
Therefore, from the City of Murcia, at the operational level carries out pruning planning, phytosanitary treatments, treatments in meadows, mowing campaigns, dismantling and planting campaigns, flower planting campaigns and irrigation planning.
The Councilor for Urban Development has called for the need to 'modulate the perception of citizens and invite them to be more respectful of the natural environment of which urban trees are also part'.
In this sense, Guillén advocated the convenience of understanding that 'to have trees with flowers, we have to bear the fall of it, or that certain species give a pleasant shade in summer but in autumn their leaves expire'.
"Ultimately," he concluded, "we must live with the idiosyncrasies of each tree species and respect its characteristics, since they are living beings and necessary elements for our personal development."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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