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Five Ways to Gift Green This Year
As the holidays approach and another year comes to a close, many of us will be celebrating with family and friends. If you are participating in the exchange of gifts, we encourage you to consider gifting with a green perspective this holiday…
Planting Story: Reforestation Project in Preeceville, Saskatchewan
In June 2021, the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation planted 39,915 White Spruce seedlings near Preeceville, Saskatchewan, through Tree Canada’s National Greening Program. We are excited to showcase this reforestation project through photos, to show you, our readers, what a planting project looks like…
Quebec Region Urban Forestry Update – December 2021
Tree-related news in Quebec Here’s a quick and non-exhaustive overview of the highlights of tree-related news in Quebec during the past few months. Urban forests 1. City of Québec’s Tree Vision: mid-term review After five years of implementation, the City publishes…
Lived Experience, Essential Narratives, Part 1: How Stories from Urban Foresters and Arborists Can Inform Our Field at Large
As published in City Trees magazine, September/October issue. Modified excerpt from the author’s PhD dissertation, Learning from Limbwalkers: Arborists’ Stories in Southern Ontario’s Urban Forests (Bardekjian, 2015). My background is rooted in English literature, creative writing, anthropology, and forest conservation. Throughout my…
A Tribute to Brian Fisher, Former Member of the Tree Canada Board of Directors
Brian Fisher’s determination to create, maintain and protect green spaces across British Columbia was legendary, and witnessed through both his professional and his personal commitments. His relationship with Tree Canada began in 1993 when our organization forged a partnership with BC Hydro….
A letter from a loving grandmother and supporter of Tree Canada
Through our amazing Tree Canada community we’ve been fortunate to make friends with, Charlie, an inspiring young boy in Vankleek Hill, ON, who is determined to plant ten trees in his community, every year. As an organization, we’re impressed with his ambition…
In Celebration of Erik Jorgensen – the Inventor of Urban Forestry
October 28, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Erik Jorgensen, one of Canada’s greatest innovators, the man who coined and popularized the term “urban forestry.” Jorgensen assumed a leadership role in forestry by expounding the benefits of maintaining and…
DFC partnering with leading Canadian organizations to promote and advance sustainability
New campaign will highlight collaboration between dairy sector and Tree Canada, Cleanfarms and Ducks Unlimited Canada October 18, 2021 – Ottawa, ON Today, Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) unveiled new partnerships with leading environmental organizations to promote and advance sustainability in the…
We still need trees
It’s no doubt that over the course of the pandemic, there have been challenges we have all faced individually and as a society as a whole. We have all needed to adjust to the changes and restrictions and through that we have…
Atlantic Region Urban Forestry Update — October 2021
We now have a Steering/Planning Committee in the Atlantic region, called the Atlantic Urban Forest Collective and the members are: Crispin Wood – Halifax NS Regional Municipality, Andrew Williams – Truro NS, Chelsea Baird – Amherst NS, Keanen Jewett and Mike Glynn…