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</font>Hello,<o:p></o:p><BR><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style='mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;'>We
would like to announce an exciting new OUFC project and put out a request to
the community for help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><u>Community HUB Project<o:p></o:p></u></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The Ontario Urban Forest Council is pleased to announce a
collaborative project with students from Fleming College, Environmental
Management Program, focussed on gathering information on Urban Forest issues
through contact with Community Groups, Municipalities, Regions, and Counties in
Ontario.<o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This a project where they are seeking to contact Community
Groups, such as Naturalists, Horticultural Societies, Ratepayers groups to name
a few, who have an interest in tree issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Further to this, they are also contacting Municipalities and other
levels of Government to gather data on any existing Bylaws related to trees;
Parks, Street, Private, Forest Conservation and any Heritage Conservation
Districts/Bylaws in the municipality. The gathered information we are going to
post on a mapping system, to allow for easy web access to Community Group
information and contacts as well as the state of Urban Forestry Bylaws in
Ontario.<o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This is a link to the current map that will be populated
with more information to help connect like-minded organizations and any
residents seeking to find out information in their community on tree related
groups and bylaws.<o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="http://www.oufc.org/tree-education/community-action/"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.oufc.org/tree-education/community-action/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">If you know of any contacts or links that would be helpful
in this mapping and content building opportunity, please email <a href="mailto:info@oufc.org"><font color="#0000ff">info@oufc.org</font></a> for us to follow-up with. We hope
to have the Bylaw and Community Group information completed by April and
plotting starting shortly thereafter. <o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">This initiative also supports the Canadian Urban Forest
Network, CUFN, under Tree Canada initiative of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Working Group 1: National Urban
Forestry Infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="Default" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">1.3 Identify
stakeholders including community groups, municipal foresters, and allied
professionals. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 11.5pt;">1.4 Continue to conduct a national
survey of urban forestry programs at the municipal, county and regional levels
of government. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="http://www.cufn.ca/?lang=en&page=aboutus#!canadian-urban-forest-strategy/c1gbp"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.cufn.ca/?lang=en&page=aboutus#!canadian-urban-forest-strategy/c1gbp</font></a><o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Peter Wynnyczuk,<o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Executive Director,<o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Ontario Urban Forest Council<o:p></o:p></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Empowering people.<br>
Protecting trees.<br>
</span><span lang="EN" style='color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>Website: </span><a href="http://www.oufc.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(0, 104, 207); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none; mso-ansi-language: EN; text-underline: none;'>http://www.oufc.org/</span></a><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(0, 104, 207); line-height: 115%; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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