Specimens whose status was of danger are replaced by healthy
The Department of Environment, led Adela Martinez-Cache has ended this morning logging tasks patients who have been taking place throughout the month of August, as scheduled.
This logging responds to the need to provide security to the passage of pedestrians, as mentioned specimens showed decay and holes, so endangered stability.
Technicians of the Department are to monitor the trees since 2009, when irreversible pathologies were detected logging once advised his beat its life cycle has been completed this year.
The councilor explained that cutting these tasks are performed each year in the month of August in order to avoid disruption to neighbors.
It has also asked them to understand that "cutting a tree is not an arbitrary decision of the councilor, but try to save each copy to the end, but once it is unrecoverable is necessary to ensure the safety of citizens."
Also added to each tree to be cut is replaced by a new one and that the logs are intended useless for recycling, because it is usable organic waste.
In the last two weeks have cut 163 trees, a very low percentage considering that Murcia has a tree population of more than 100,000 trees.
It mostly has tried mulberry, poplars, elms and maples.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia