[CANUFNET] News from the Ontario Urban Forest Council, OUFC and we need your help on an Important Project

[peter.wynnyczuk at sympatico.ca]

Hello,



We
would like to announce an exciting new OUFC project and put out a request to
the community for help.


Community HUB Project


The Ontario Urban Forest Council is pleased to announce a
collaborative project with students from Fleming College, Environmental
Management Program, focussed on gathering information on Urban Forest issues
through contact with Community Groups, Municipalities, Regions, and Counties in
Ontario.


This a project where they are seeking to contact Community
Groups, such as Naturalists, Horticultural Societies, Ratepayers groups to name
a few, who have an interest in tree issues. 
Further to this, they are also contacting Municipalities and other
levels of Government to gather data on any existing Bylaws related to trees;
Parks, Street, Private, Forest Conservation and any Heritage Conservation
Districts/Bylaws in the municipality. The gathered information we are going to
post on a mapping system, to allow for easy web access to Community Group
information and contacts as well as the state of Urban Forestry Bylaws in
Ontario.


This is a link to the current map that will be populated
with more information to help connect like-minded organizations and any
residents seeking to find out information in their community on tree related
groups and bylaws.


http://www.oufc.org/tree-education/community-action/


If you know of any contacts or links that would be helpful
in this mapping and content building opportunity, please email info at oufc.org for us to follow-up with. We hope
to have the Bylaw and Community Group information completed by April and
plotting starting shortly thereafter. 


This initiative also supports the Canadian Urban Forest
Network, CUFN, under Tree Canada initiative of Working Group 1: National Urban
Forestry Infrastructure


 1.3 Identify
stakeholders including community groups, municipal foresters, and allied
professionals. 


1.4 Continue to conduct a national
survey of urban forestry programs at the municipal, county and regional levels
of government. 


http://www.cufn.ca/?lang=en&page=aboutus#!canadian-urban-forest-strategy/c1gbp


 


Sincerely, 


Peter Wynnyczuk,


Executive Director,


Ontario Urban Forest Council


Empowering people.

Protecting trees.

Website: http://www.oufc.org/


Email: info at oufc.org

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