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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">The City of Ottawa has launched a new<B><I> Trees, Reforestation, and Environmental Enhancement (TREE) program</I></B><I></I> which aims to enhance the city's urban and rural forests through the planting of 100,000 over the next four years. Ottawa views this program as an inspiration and motivation to build local opportunities for partnerships with community groups, schools, businesses, corporation, and citizens of all ages in leaving a vital legacy for the future of our City. The TREE program responds to the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, a worldwide initiative to plant one billion trees. The City of Ottawa has pledge our commitment of 100,000 trees to this campaign.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">We believe that the joining together of Canadian municipalities will contribute to the planting of millions of trees across the country and as such the City of Ottawa's Mayor, has issued a</FONT><B></B><B><I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">National Tree Planting Challenge</FONT></I></B><I></I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">to all Canadian Municipalities to band together and plant trees for the environment . The</FONT><I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">National Tree Planting Challenge</FONT></I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">has the prospect of building strong public awareness of the issues of local governments in our struggle to maintain the environmental integrity of our communities while providing a venue for promoting simple actions and individual commitments to environmentally based activities. For your municipality, it is just a matter of signing on to the UNEP’s web site <<A HREF="http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign">http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign</A>> and recording the number of trees your municipality is planning to plant over the next few years</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">As the host of the</FONT><I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">National Tree Planting Challenge</FONT></I><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">, Ottawa agrees to tally and track the commitments of participating municipalities, develop a communication network to share interesting planting projects between municipalities and with the media and keep the UNEP’s</FONT><I> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">‘Plant a Billion Trees’</FONT></I><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman"> campaign informed of our communal progress. Hundreds of Challenge Packages (including a Participation Pledge Card) have already been issued to municipal leaders across Canada and there are more to come. For more information on the City of Ottawa's TREE program, the National Tree Planting Challenge, or to receive a Participation Pledge card for your municipality, please e-mail to TREE@ottawa.ca, call toll free to<SPAN LANG="en-ca"> 866-261-9799 ext. 1TREE, or visit </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> www.ottawa.ca/TREE </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">We invite you to sign on with Ottawa, plant trees and count your municipality into ‘The National Tree Planting Challenge’.</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Craig Huff, R.P.F.</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Comic Sans MS">City Forester, Forestry Services</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Public Works & Services Department</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Comic Sans MS">100 Constellation Cres., 5th Floor</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Tel: 613-580-2424 ext. 21138</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Fax: 613-580-2611</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Email: craig.huff@ottawa.ca</FONT></SPAN>
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