“Merry Christmas plane trees!” On Monday, opponents of the felling of old plane trees near Stockmar college in Porrentruy (JU) marked a victory in the fate of these nonagenarian trees doomed to felling. They put up posters on an old tree trunk with the slogan “Still alive!” with a big heart.
It's a real citizen's Christmas tale that RTS tells in a report carried out on site on Monday, where the joy of having temporarily saved these illustrious plants contrasted sharply with the gray winter weather.
The municipality was therefore going to cut around forty specimens from December 23, but the courts decided on a suspensive effect, after an online petition collected 22,000 signatures, or triple the population. from the small Jura town! Last Friday, seized of an opposition, the Court of First Instance of Jura informed the municipality of Porrentruy that it could not take out the chainsaws “until a decision on the merits was rendered”.
“What matters is to see if we can preserve these trees,” explains Marie Houriet, member of the opposition group. If they have to be cut for security reasons, which we would understand, we want to be sure. It’s important to have in-depth expertise.”
On the side of the municipality of Porrentruy, we put forward a report from professional foresters and environmental specialists. These venerable trees would have had their day, to the point of threatening the safety of college students.
But, according to WiKipedia, ninety years for a plane tree is still very young… “Plane trees are large trees that can reach 25 to 55 m in height, whose general characteristics differ little from one species to the next. other. They have a fairly long lifespan (several hundred years, even ten centuries or more). In sufficiently humid soil, the plane tree can live up to 4,000 years.
In short, the controversy has only just begun among the Bruntrutains, the venerable inhabitants of Porrentruy.
