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Thank you James, wonderful to see such leadership from your community. I sit on council in Port Coquitlam, part of Metro Vancouver and I am finding this canopy discussion to be very compelling. Lots of food for thought for policy makers.
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<div dir="ltr">Best regards,</div>
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On: 22 June 2016 10:02, "James Steenberg" <james.steenberg@ryerson.ca> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Everyone,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a very interesting debate and I thought I would join. I echo a lot of the sentiments so far, but I would also argue that this is a matter of spatial scale and that there are additional limitations with city-wide canopy cover targets.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Achievable canopy targets are so variable and scale-dependent across a given city that 1) tree planting initiatives can often be directed towards ‘low-hanging fruit’ like highway rights of way that have less value as public space, and 2)
neighbourhoods with higher densities and/or less public space can get left by the wayside.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For Halifax’s urban forest master plan, we adopted neighbourhood-based canopy cover targets (among other objectives) ranging from 12% to 70% based on analysis of local conditions with the hopes of establishing more relevant and attainable
goals. Here’s the plan’s website: <a href="https://www.halifax.ca/property/UFMP/">
https://www.halifax.ca/property/UFMP/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- James</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">James Steenberg, PhD</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Postdoctoral Researcher</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:james.steenberg@ryerson.ca">james.steenberg@ryerson.ca</a></p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Charlotte Young <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:charlotte@envision-synergy.net" target="_blank">charlotte@envision-synergy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Greetings everyone,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I was the facilitator for several workshops on Toronto’s “canopy study” several years ago. While I can’t comment on the decision to work towards 40% coverage (I suspect, as the threads have said, it was somewhat
arbitrary), participants did identify the land uses they thought were most suitable for increasing coverage to get to the 40%. I recall especially “commercial” and “industrial” lands holding the highest potential. Have we made progress here? I would love to
know.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Charlotte Young<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Charlotte Young, Ph.D.; Facilitator/Graphic Recorder/Evaluator<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">envision…SYNERGY/PICTURE your Thoughts<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> CANUFNET [mailto:<a href="mailto:canufnet-bounces@list.web.net" target="_blank">canufnet-bounces@list.web.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex Satel<br>
<b>Sent:</b> June 22, 2016 10:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Canadian Urban Forest Network' <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net" target="_blank">canufnet@list.web.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CANUFNET] tree canopy target<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hi Alan (and all),<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I think the very fact that we aren’t able to jump forward with a quick reference to why 30% is “good” but, say, 25% isn’t, supports what Dr. Duinker has already said – these targets are rarely based on science
or even high-level assessments of what is possible or reasonable.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">The 40% canopy cover target that’s been adopted by many communities seems to go back to a publication by American Forests, which set that level as “optimal” for US cities east of the Mississippi. I can’t dig
up the publication as the link I had to it on AF’s website is broken. That same publication set lower targets for western regions (somewhere in the order of 20-30%, I believe). I honestly can’t recall the basis behind those figures.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">It seems that urban forest managers and decision makers have decided to run with targets within that range for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that they probably just ‘seem’ reasonable and achievable.
I think a lot of it also has to do with what Dr. Duinker said – peer behaviour. Communities are constantly benchmarking against each other – it wouldn’t look good for community X to set a target of 24% if neighbouring community Y has a target of 35%, even
if community X had done an exhaustive potential canopy cover study and found 24% to be a realistic target based on its potential carrying capacity. I’ve even heard of one community that set its target because “30 by 2030” (or was it 40 by 2040? I can’t recall)
had a nice ring to it and was sellable. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Your question again raises valid issues with these high-level canopy cover targets:
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">are they achievable (how much canopy can we actually cram into this urban area)?
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Would they actually translate to tangible increases in benefits (and therefore, should we even be trying to achieve them)?
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">When we say 30% or 40%, what do we really mean (is that 30% averaged across the entire area, where forest stands can be 95% canopy but neighbourhoods where people actually live only 10%)?
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Does focusing on increasing canopy detract resources and attention from other important urban forest management activities (risk management, protecting existing trees, etc. etc.)?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">and on and on…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andres Olaya<br>
<b>Sent:</b> June-22-16 8:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Canadian Urban Forest Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CANUFNET] tree canopy target<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Good morning colleges:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">I’ve found this interesting article (World Health Organization web site) that might give us some answers:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/174012/1/9789241508537_eng.pdf?ua=1" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/174012/1/9789241508537_eng.pdf?ua=1</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Have a great day.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Duinker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 21, 2016 2:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Canadian Urban Forest Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CANUFNET] tree canopy target<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greetings Alan:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Canopy targets for a city or town are, in my view, fairly arbitrary and definitely not generalizable. I hold the view that targets are never
scientifically based because they depend on people to express preferences and are therefore value-based. The target-setting exercise can be scientifically informed, of course. In the case of urban-forest canopy, one might expect an analysis of current canopy
coverage and its benefits, as well as a range of forecasts detailing how many more trees it would take to get to a specific canopy coverage, and what would be the benefit stream associated with each scenario of canopy coverage. I have never seen this done.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">One could look at the question this way: what factors influence the setting of a canopy target? Factors might include: (a) the current canopy,
which is presumably lower than the target; (b) the cost, in terms of new trees established, to get to a specific canopy target at a particular future year; (c) the prospects that the cost predicted can be covered from the various budgets available; (d) the
increase in benefits associated with the targeted canopy cover; and (e) what other cities and towns are doing in this respect. While (a) through (d) are sensible factors, (e) is less so, but I’ll bet that many urban-forest strategies are based on peer behaviour
when it comes to canopy targets. Perhaps it boils down to this: how much canopy cover would we ideally want? Probably much, much more than we have today. But how much canopy cover can we realistically hope to achieve in the next decades? Probably some
smallish fraction of the ideal. So let’s pick a number that seems achievable and gets us substantially more canopy than we have today.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I would be most interested to know if anyone is using a more sophisticated approach than this.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best wishes, Peter Duinker</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> CANUFNET [<a href="mailto:canufnet-bounces@list.web.net" target="_blank">mailto:canufnet-bounces@list.web.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan Kemp<br>
<b>Sent:</b> June 21, 2016 1:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Canadian Urban Forest Network' <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net" target="_blank">canufnet@list.web.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CANUFNET] tree canopy target<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The City of Nanaimo has an Urban Forest Management Strategy. In that Strategy we have a target of increasing our forest canopy to over 30% in the next decade. Of course this is difficult in the urban setting.
Our Management and Protection of Trees Bylaw supports this document by requiring tree replacement plans for development, which in general terms works. However, I was asked why 30% or even 35%? What is the scientific reasoning behind that. Although I can explain
all the benefits of an urban forest, I could not really give a good science based answer. I have looked through a lot of literature, but don’t seem to be able to give a reasonable answer.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Any suggestions?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Alan Kemp<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Urban Forestry Coordinator<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Certified Arborist, Certified Tree Risk Assessor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Community Development<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">City of Nanaimo<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><a href="tel:250%20755%204460" value="+12507554460" target="_blank">250 755 4460</a> (local 4357)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><a href="mailto:alan.kemp@nanaimo.ca" target="_blank">alan.kemp@nanaimo.ca</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><a href="http://www.nanaimo.ca/goto/urbantrees" target="_blank">www.nanaimo.ca/goto/urbantrees</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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