Thousands of Trees Will Be Felled in Vancouver’s Stanley Park Due to Moth Infestation

Thousands of Trees Will Be Felled in Vancouver’s Stanley Park Due to Moth Infestation
A cyclist rides on the road in Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C., Oct. 2, 2020. (The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck) DARRYL DYCK
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The quiet of Stanley Park’s forests has been splintered as chainsaws roar in a multi-year project to remove about one quarter of the trees that make up what’s considered a Vancouver jewel.

On the road to Prospect Point a parking lot that in warmer months would be part of a picnic area, is now a work site where heavy machinery brings in large, cut sections of trees and crushes smaller branches.