[CANUFNET] City of Ottawa 's Trees, Reforestation, and Environmental Enhancement (TREE) program Challenge

[Mike Prueter]

Hello Craig,

May I suggest that you look at planting more trees in the fall perhaps after 
the first rain in September?  After looking at several drier biogeoclimatic 
subzones in the western part of Canada and especially in the dry portions of 
Idaho, USA, we have been able to achieve much higher survival rates and 
seedling performance in the Fall.  The trees are also found to be in sync with 
the growing cycle when seedlings, either 1+1 or 2+0 's have had bud set and are 
concentrating in their first season to only grow roots immediately after 
planting.  Expecting seedlings to grow their first season's top-growth in a 
droughty environment going into the hot summer months, without any new roots 
has proven to be a serious mistake.  As a silviculturist for many years on the 
west coast and even as far south as California, records have proven in many dry 
environments, (and with the trend to more global warming)that this has been 
very successful.  It would be wise to consider this option, and discuss this 
especially with your nursery manager/grower prior to deciding on your actual 
planting date.  Please take this only as food for thought.

Mike Prueter R.P.F.
Maple Ridge, B.C.



Quoting "Huff, Craig" <Craig.Huff at ottawa.ca>:

> The City of Ottawa has launched a new Trees, Reforestation, and Environmental
> Enhancement (TREE) program which aims to enhance the city's urban and rural
> forests through the planting of 100,000 over the next four years.   Ottawa
> views this program as an inspiration and motivation to build local
> opportunities for partnerships with community groups, schools, businesses,
> corporation, and citizens of all ages in leaving a vital legacy for the
> future of our City. The TREE program responds to the United Nations
> Environment Programme's (UNEP) Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, a
> worldwide initiative to plant one billion trees. The City of Ottawa has
> pledge our commitment of 100,000 trees to this campaign.
> 
> > We believe that the joining together of Canadian municipalities will
> contribute to the planting of millions of trees across the country and as
> such the City of Ottawa's Mayor, has issued a National Tree Planting
> Challenge to all Canadian Municipalities to band together and plant trees for
> the environment . The National Tree Planting Challenge has the prospect of
> building strong public awareness of the issues of local governments in our
> struggle to maintain the environmental integrity of our communities while
> providing a venue for promoting simple actions and individual commitments to
> environmentally based activities. For your municipality, it is just a matter
> of signing on to the UNEP> '> s web site
> <http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign> and recording the number of trees
> your municipality is planning to plant over the next few years
> > 
> > As the host of the National Tree Planting Challenge, Ottawa agrees to tally
> and track the commitments of participating municipalities, develop a
> communication network to share interesting planting projects between
> municipalities and with the media and keep the UNEP> '> s > '> Plant a
> Billion Trees> '>  campaign informed of our communal progress.  Hundreds of
> Challenge Packages (including a Participation Pledge Card) have already been
> issued to municipal leaders across Canada and there are more to come.  For
> more information on the City of Ottawa's TREE program, the National Tree
> Planting Challenge, or to receive a Participation Pledge card for your
> municipality, please e-mail to TREE at ottawa.ca, call toll free to 866-261-9799
> ext. 1TREE, or visit  www.ottawa.ca/TREE  
> > 
> > We invite you to sign on with Ottawa, plant trees and count your
> municipality into > '> The National Tree Planting Challenge> '> .
> > 
> > 
> > Craig Huff, R.P.F.
> > City Forester, Forestry Services
> > Public Works & Services Department
> > 100 Constellation Cres., 5th Floor
> > Ottawa, ON  K2G 6J8
> > Tel:	613-580-2424 ext. 21138
> > Fax:	613-580-2611
> > Email: craig.huff at ottawa.ca
> > 
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