<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px">To add to the discussion, there is an existing 3rd party urban forestry certification program for cities, including Canadian cities.  Currently, London Ontario, and Surrey, British Columbia are accredited under this program.  This accreditation is offered by the <b>Society of Municipal Arborists</b>. You can find out more about this program at <a href="https://www.urban-forestry.com/sma-accreditation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk60576">https://www.urban-forestry.com/sma-accreditation</a>  </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px">Another third party program is <i><b>Tree Cities of the World</b></i>.  It is a FAO program, administered in North America by the Arbor Day Foundation out of Nebraska, and supported by the Society of Municipal Arborists.  There are quite a few Canadian cities involved.  <a href="https://treecitiesoftheworld.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk239687">https://treecitiesoftheworld.org/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:16px">Owen Croy<br></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 06:31, Peter Duinker via CANUFNET <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net">canufnet@list.web.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Urban-Forest Colleagues:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Inc., an organization specializing in third-party forest certification, is considering whether
 there is merit in developing a certification standard for urban forests. SFI has established a Task Group for this consideration. Kathryn Fernholz of Dovetail Partners and I are co-chairing the Task Group.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As part of SFI’s series of webinars associated with revisions to its main forest-management standard, there will be a webinar about
 certification for urban forests on 09 June at 13:00 Eastern Time Zone (<a href="https://www.sfiprogram.org/standard-revision-process-workshops/" target="_blank">https://www.sfiprogram.org/standard-revision-process-workshops/</a>, and <a href="https://forests.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kqrcjixRY6zRvuihok3Rw" target="_blank">https://forests.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kqrcjixRY6zRvuihok3Rw</a>). I encourage you to sign up and find out what’s
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cheers, Peter Duinker<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:peter.duinker@dal.ca" target="_blank">peter.duinker@dal.ca</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Peter N. Duinker, PhD, P.Ag.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Professor Emeritus, School for Resource and Environmental Studies<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">6100 University Ave., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Email:
<a href="mailto:peter.duinker@dal.ca" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">peter.duinker@dal.ca</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://www.dal.ca/faculty/management/sres/faculty-staff/our-faculty/peter-duinker.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.dal.ca/faculty/management/sres/faculty-staff/our-faculty/peter-duinker.html</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">President, Sylveritas Ltd.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Email:
<a href="mailto:pnduinker@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">pnduinker@gmail.com</span></a></span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Phone: 902-229-5141<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">To learn about street trees in Halifax:
<a href="https://www.halifaxtreeproject.com/street-tree-blog" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.halifaxtreeproject.com/street-tree-blog</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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