Tree Canada’s National Greening Program supports landowners with their tree planting projects. Landowners benefit from Tree Canada’s extensive experience in project design, qualified staff and Forestry Specialists, our partnerships with conservation organizations as well as funding and support.
Tree Canada encourages Canadian property owners to submit a proposal to be part of our National Greening Program, which supports landowners with their tree planting projects where there is a need for forest rehabilitation, afforestation, ecosystem restoration, or biodiversity enhancement.
Eligibility and Expectations:
- areas formerly used for crop rotation
- non-native meadows and grasslands, and riparian areas
- woodlands that require reforestation or that would benefit from enhancement
The size of a project can vary, and we ask for a minimum project size of 4 hectares, or 8,000 trees. It is possible to combine multiple properties into one project to meet this minimum size.
- areas which are currently under a forest tenure license for future commercial wood harvest
- sites in which reforestation is mandated under provincial legislation following disturbance and/or resource extraction
- wetlands and permanently flooded sites
- sites that are frequented by livestock
There are exceptions to these eligibility criteria. For questions concerning eligibility and application support, please contact our National Greening Program Manager.
Tree Canada aims to respond to your application within one month of receipt, although response times may vary. We will discuss any project clarifications with you (please provide as much information as possible), and if your project is a good fit, we’ll connect you with a local, qualified forestry contractor who can plan and complete your planting. If you have a planting contractor in mind, please let us know in your submission.
After visiting your property, the contractor will send us their planting plan and other relevant information. We will then use that information to evaluate your project and to structure contracts with the contractor and with you. Once these contracts are signed, your project will be approved for funding.
After project approval, we reimburse the contractor for sourcing and planting costs. We also arrange and pay for third-party planting quality audits (within 30 days of planting) and tree survival assessments (at 1, 2, and 5 years after planting). Landowners agree to protect the planted trees for a minimum of 20 years up to 50 years.
Please note that planting projects can take up to a year to plan, depending on stock and contractor availability and the level of project complexity. Applications are received on an ongoing basis.
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