[CANUFNET] Vision Urban Forests/Forêt urbaine

[Listar, Ivan]

Thank you everyone who worked so hard to get the message about the importance of urban forestry heard by government. I am glad to see that the CCFM has mentioned urban forestry in their vision.  I understand that this is a big first step.  

I agree that the other issues identified are important and need to be addressed.  But, in my opinion, they mentioned urban forestry but otherwise completely ignored it in their vision.  The CCFM does not recognize urban forestry as being important probably because of the makeup of the organization which has no municipal representation.   It gets one paragraph buried on page 7 of the report!!!!!!!!!  Urban Forestry shares a small line with a lot of other groups on page 5 and 11.  There is no mention of partnerships with or roles and responsibilities of municipal governments.   The municipal governments need to be involved in the development of the strategy.  I don't know how they can get engaged in the process with the federal and provincial governments, maybe through the various provincial municipal government organizations.  Regardless, urban forestry is different enough from all the other identified priorities and deserves a separate section on its own, just like climate change and the forest industry.  

We still have a BBBIIIGGG hill to climb from where I am standing.  Yodelayeehoo!!!

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2009!

Ivan Listar, R.P.F. 
Urban Forester, City of London 
A.J. Tyler Operations Centre 
663 Bathurst St. 
London, Ont.  N5Z 1P8 
Phone: 519-661-2500 ext. 4977 
mailto:ilistar at london.ca 
fax: 519-661-2352 

From: canufnet-bounces at list.web.net [mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of Michael Rosen
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 11:46 AM
To: Michael Rosen
Subject: [CANUFNET] Vision Urban Forests/Forêt urbaine
Importance: High

For the first time, due primarily to our collective work, "urban forestry interests" has been recognized as one of the components of "the forest sector" in the document of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers: A Vision for Canada's Forest: 2008 and Beyond available on the CCFM website (www.ccfm.org) under http://www.ccfm.org/pdf/Vision_EN.pdf . We should congratulate ourselves on having our message heard. We must further encourage the recognition of urban forests and their proper funding to all levels of government and the private sector in the year to come.
On behalf of the Tree Canada team and the Canadian Urban Forest Network have a great holiday!
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Pour la première fois, à cause de notre travail collectif, «les intervenants de la foresterie urbaine» sont inclus dans le document du conseil canadien des ministres des forêts : Une vision pour les forêts du Canada : 2008 et au-delà maintenant rendu public, et est présentement disponible sur le site internet du CCMF (www.ccfm.org) sous http://www.ccfm.org/pdf/Vision_FR.pdf . Nous avons devons nous féliciter d'avoir notre message entendu. Il faut que nous encourageons encore la reconnaissance des forêts urbaines et leurs finances propres à tout les niveaux gouvernementaux et le secteur privé.

De la part de l'équipe Arbres Canada et le  Réseau canadien de la forêt urbain, passez de joyeuses fêtes!


Michael Rosen, R.P.F.
President / président, Tree Canada / Arbres Canada
402 - 222 Somerset St. West / 402 - 222, rue Somerset ouest
Ottawa ON K2P 2G3
T 1.877-666-1444; 613. 567-5545 X. 222 ;  F/Téléc (613) 567-5270  
E/C mrosen at treecanada.ca  
www.treecanada.ca <http://www.treecanada.ca/>  / www.arbrescanada.ca <http://www.arbrescanada.ca/> 


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