GreenSudbury

Trees in urban areas provide a number of important benefits. They help to clean the air, curb stormwater runoff, raise property values, sequester carbon, and reduce energy costs.

The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) assists developing countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation--called REDD--by providing value to standing forests.

Street trees in the City of Toronto have a life expectancy of 5 to 7 years due to the stresses placed on the tree such as concrete planting containers, hard and/or very compacted surface area, and the stress of high volumes of vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

The Tree Benefit Calculator allows anyone to make a simple estimation of the benefits individual street-side trees provide. this tool should be considered a starting point for understanding trees’ value in the community, rather than a scientific accounting of precise values

The Forestry Futures Trust Committee is pleased to invite Sustainable Forest License holders and Managers of Crown units to participate in the twenty-ninth call for applications under the recently announced Silviculture Job Stimulus Program

In a call to further individual and collective action, UNEP has set a new goal of planting 7 billion trees by the end of 2009. The campaign strongly encourages the planting of indigenous trees and trees that are appropriate to the local environment.

Celebrate the TreeHugger in you! Nicely designed tree site with great tree activism and learning

The Northern forest industry has benefited the province and beyond for a long time “and this is the time where we need to have some special consideration to make sure we don’t lose something that’s an integral part of Northern Ontario,” she said.
Mayors from around the region share the same concerns, she said.

La version préliminaire du Plan d’aménagement de la forêt Spanish a été présentée la semaine dernière à ses utilisateurs, alors qu’un centre d’information a été érigé dans la salle des Chevaliers de Colomb de Chelmsford.

Critical Review of Historical and Current Tree Planting Programs On Private Lands in Ontario
Survey of Rural Landowners in Ontario Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Land Stewardship.
National Survery of Farmers and Ranchers. Wildlife Habitat Canada.
Trees Ontario- a community tree-planting partnership Market Analysis and Business Plan
Review of Best Practices for Tree Planting on Marginal Agricultural Lands in Ontario

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A KILOMETER OF WOOD?

According to the town's UFORE (Urban Forest Effects Model) Report, Oakville's current average urban forest canopy cover is 29 per cent. The report established a baseline for the town's urban forest coverage and provided recommendations for increasing tree canopy coverage to 40 per cent.

The Working Forest newspaper was established by Judy Skidmore in November 1997 to provide news information for and about the Ontario forest industry.Since then, the distribution of the newspaper has grown across Canada with the main focus continuing to be on the mid-Canada forest sector.