THUNDER BAY -- A display of trees set up on the north side of Boulevard Lake to mark Thunder Bay's designation as Forest Capital of Canada in 2000 is showing its age.
Some of the signs describing numerous tree species planted along a walking trail at Birch Point have degraded to the point of being completely illegible.
Tbnewswatch contacted the City of Thunder Bay parks department after hearing about the problem from a local hiker.
Parks and Open Spaces manager Cory Halvorsen said the city didn't have immediate plans to replace the signs, but after receiving the inquiry "we'll go out and make observation about their condition and try and work them into our sign replacement efforts."
Halvorsen said he didn't as yet have a schedule for the changes.
The city inherited the display which was established through corporate donations under the Forest Capital project.
Halvorsen said "I'm sure we fully intended to maintain them, but you never know exactly how long (the signs) they are going to last."
He added that since the city doesn't have a detailed sign asset replacement program, so jobs like this are more likely to be attended to only after coming to the city's attention.
Weather has left some signage at the Forest Capital tree display unreadable (tbnewswatch.com photo
