{"id":20966,"date":"2022-04-17T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T01:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=20966"},"modified":"2022-04-17T21:13:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T01:13:42","slug":"episode-565-ratray-marsh-devastated-by-emerald-ash-borer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=20966","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 565 RATRAY MARSH DEVASTATED BY EMERALD ASH BORER"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 565    RATRAY MARSH DEVASTATED BY EMERALD ASH BORER<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
April 17, 2022<\/div>\n

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One of Mississauga\u2019s most enchanting forest trails has been devastated<\/div>\n
by the Emerald Ash Borer.   Tree cutting by City Parks employees has littered <\/div>\n
the forest floor with the corpses of the ash trees that were once so dominant.<\/div>\n
Very sad.<\/div>\n

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But the forest trail is still enchanting.   New boardwalk actually makes Ratray<\/div>\n
Marsh more exciting than ever.   The chance that humans will stray from<\/div>\n
the trails has been minimized and forestry employees are trying to return the marsh<\/div>\n
to its natural states\u2026free from invasive species including humans.<\/div>\n

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Worth a trip for sure.<\/div>\n

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Often the pathways are empty \u2026 and just as often there are many people enjoying the<\/div>\n
trails.  We arrived on an empty day\u2026i.e. very few people\u2026which enhanced our<\/div>\n
enjoyment.  Marjorie, Kevin and I did not even talk to each other until Marjorie<\/div>\n
pointed out  things.  Such as the danger of Asian Carp in the Marsh waterway.<\/div>\n
We wandered lonely as a cloud.  \u2018<\/div>\n
Excuse the stolen line.<\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 565    RATRAY MARSH DEVASTATED BY EMERALD ASH BORER alan skeoch April 17, 2022 One of Mississauga\u2019s most enchanting forest trails has been devastated by the Emerald Ash Borer.   Tree cutting by City Parks employees has littered  the forest floor with the corpses of the ash trees that were once so dominant. Very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}