<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Alice:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am doing research on Urban Forest participatory management programs throughout the world for a book I am writing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would love to hear more about what you are doing in Ontario. If you can email me directly so we can open a dialogue, it would be greatly appreciated.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards</div><div class="">Naomi <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 10, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Peter J Murphy via CANUFNET <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net" class="">canufnet@list.web.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Alice -- a pertinent comment -- thanks for raising this aspect. We are developing a local Spruce Forest in our community of St Albert -- do you have literature that describes your approach to encouraging public participation?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peter Murphy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:18 AM Alice Casselman via CANUFNET <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net" target="_blank" class="">canufnet@list.web.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Fabulous<br class="">
But one important piece missing<br class="">
The vital involvement of citizen scientist volunteers to participate in the planting,watering,monitoring reporting changes in health and growth measurements <br class="">
especially for newly planted shrubs and trees in this changing climate <br class="">
Using Standardized protocols as we have makes data compatible for analysis acrossCanada<br class="">
Happy to share our 20 years in Ontario one hectare plots 10 years in schoolyards and 5 years of riparian restoration plantings with Conservation Authorities <br class="">
Alice Casselman <br class="">
For ACER<br class="">
<a href="http://www.acer-acre.ca/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">www.acer-acre.ca</a><br class="">
905.601.7685<br class="">
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Alice Casselman </blockquote></div>
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