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Tree Canada continues the fight against the Emerald Ash Borer by providing support to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2018 (Ottawa, ON) — Tree Canada, Canada’s leading national tree-planting charity, and BioForest Technologies Inc. are pleased...

Canadian Urban Forest Network – Pacific Region Update

The big news in the Pacific Region is the International Urban Forest Congress. If you haven’t heard about the Congress happening in Vancouver...

Atlantic Urban Forestry Collective: EAB detected in Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Urban Forestry Collective: EAB detected in Atlantic Canada Heather Fraser – Canadian Urban Forest Network, Atlantic region representative  June 7, 2018...

Tree Canada and CN announce the 27 recipients awarded grants of up to $25,000...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 2018 (Halifax, NS) — CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) and Tree Canada, Canada’s leading national tree-planting charity,...

Ashcroft Indian Band first community to plant trees through Tree Canada’s #OperationReLeaf BC Fires

May 24, 2018 (Ashcroft, BC) – This week, a major private initiative to restore community greenspaces affected by last year’s BC fires gets...

Ontario’s Urban Forestry Update: A Year in Review

Peter Wynnyczuk – Ontario Representative, CUFN Steering Committee, and Executive Director, Ontario Urban Forest Council May 17, 2018 In October, the Ontario...

Carbon offsetting: a different way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

There are many things one can do to be more environmentally friendly, like recycle, buy energy efficient light bulbs, and drive fuel...

Moving Forward with the CUFN in Quebec

Meagan Hanna, MA. ISA Board Certified Master Arborist – Quebec Representative, CUFN Steering Committee Within my first year as Quebec Representative of...

Over the Years We Grow: National Scale Progress in Engagement and Research at Tree...

Adrina C. Bardekjian, MFC, PhD Originally posted on The Nature of Cities: https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/05/08/years-grow-national-scale-progress-engagement-research-tree-canada/ Over the past four years in leading the Engagement...

Green Spaces, Urban Wildlife, and Human Impacts

City dwellers are surrounded by a wide array of urban wildlife, but there seems to be little appreciation for it. Unfortunately, there...

Quebec’s Urban Forestry Update: A Year in Review

Meagan Hanna, MA. ISA Board Certified Master Arborist – Quebec Representative, CUFN Steering Committee Quebec urban foresters and friends of the urban...

VIDEO: Tapping a maple tree with Tree Canada President, Mike Rosen

Tree Canada’s President, Michael Rosen, shows us how to tap a tree – a sure sign of the approaching end of the...

How Canadian communities are managing the threat of EAB

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is an invasive species that originated in China, because it has no natural predators in North America,...