<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Request for help .Thank you for your educational and informative bulletins on the subject of trees<div class="">I live in the Laurentian part of PQ and this because of my love for trees and nature in general.</div><div class="">In my village as well as well as in surrounding municipalities , i do not find any important efforts to make our trees well known and appreciated by the population in general</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do you know of any villages in Canada where trees are made known as you are doing for the urban sectors and which I could contact to learn how to put together a program ……like yours on the federal scene</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you in advance </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gilles Beaulieu 1-819-327-3111</div><div class="">175 chemin du Moulin</div><div class="">StAdolphe d’Howard, J0T2B0</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 2016-02-16 à 19:59, Meagan Hanna, Miss <<a href="mailto:meagan.hanna@mail.mcgill.ca" class="">meagan.hanna@mail.mcgill.ca</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Evaluating, legislating and managing historically significant trees</font><div class=""> </div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;" class="">Hello Friends of the Canadian Urban Forest, and beyond!</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">I'm looking for some information on how communities have managed their historically significant and interesting trees. I am preparing a summary of initiatives nation-wide which I plan to present in the next couple of months.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">I'm fairly familiar with the Ontario Urban Forest Council (OUFC) and Trees Ontario Heritage Tree Program. Less familiar specifically with what Ontario municipalities have done to nominate significant trees and ensure that these trees are managed accordingly. In other words: what are the systems in place to recognize and protect heritage trees? Who is involved/what are their roles? How are your programs performing and are they being kept up?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">As far as provinces outside of Ontario go, I am eager to learn more as I am way too ignorant of what is going on beyond the Windsor - Quebec City corridor. I'm looking for anything on legislation, by-laws, programs, tree tours, publicly accessible data, books etc. Any insight or experiences would be cherished at this point, so please feel to write to me if you can at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:meagan.hanna@mail.mcgill.ca" class="">meagan.hanna@mail.mcgill.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or by all means share on over the listserv!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Thanks so much for your input.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">FYI - EXAMPLES FROM QUEBEC</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">As for Quebec, we do not have any provincially or regionally based legislation or programs for heritage trees. Similarly, we do not have a widely accepted methodology for designating a particular tree as historically significant. Certain municipalities have commemorated individual trees with the help of citizens and community groups. I only know of one municipality (borough of Saint-Leonard, Montreal) that has adopted a municipal by-law for the recognition and protection of "remarkable trees." Nevertheless, only one tree has been named in the last 4 years and a nomination committee has yet to be formed. I have seen other boroughs and cities manage modest online databases of significant trees as well. A couple of French language resources for your information, of which can be translated into English if you use GoogleChrome (right click on pages and select "Translate into English" :</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Montreal, inventory of significant trees around Mont-Royal's natural and historic heritage district</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><a href="http://www1.ville.montreal.qc.ca/siteofficieldumontroyal/inventaires?naturel%5B%5D=515&sommet=All&arrond=All&ensemble=All&periode=All" id="LPlnk376066" class="">http://www1.ville.montreal.qc.ca/siteofficieldumontroyal/inventaires?naturel%5B%5D=515&sommet=All&arrond=All&ensemble=All&periode=All</a><br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Quebec City significant trees - community contest with experienced jury</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><a href="http://www.af2r.org/mise-en-valeur-et-conservation/les-arbres-remarquables-des-monuments-vivants" id="LPlnk267680" class="">http://www.af2r.org/mise-en-valeur-et-conservation/les-arbres-remarquables-des-monuments-vivants</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Quebec City's open access tree inventory data - lists on potentially remarkable trees, these trees have no special legal designation</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><a href="http://donnees.ville.quebec.qc.ca/donne_details.aspx?jdid=82" id="LPlnk237584" class="">http://donnees.ville.quebec.qc.ca/donne_details.aspx?jdid=82</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">City of Granby - interactive map of remarkable trees in the city. Pretty cool idea to manage a few trees.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><a href="http://granby.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/?appid=387f221712df4b8bb4edaa6ff0f99459" id="LPlnk746961" title="http://granby.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/?appid=387f221712df4b8bb4edaa6ff0f99459
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" class="">http://granby.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/?appid=387f221712df4b8bb4edaa6ff0f99459</a><br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class=""><br class="">All the best,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="">Meg<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class="BodyFragment"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""><div class="PlainText">Meagan Hanna, MA.<br class=""><a href="mailto:meagan.hanna@mail.mcgill.ca" class="">meagan.hanna@mail.mcgill.ca</a></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>