Nearly a year after more than 20 public trees were illegally clearcut during a house move down Roblin Blvd last summer, the city has begun replanting. Here’s what Trees Please’s Charles Feaver had to say in City begins replacing trees lost in botched 2021 house…
We’ve added a temperature map to our Interactive Tree Loss Map. It’s a great way to visualize that impact of the heat island effect due to tree and green space loss. Just click on the interactive map then click on Winnipeg temperatures and the data…
On May 24, 2022, the city released a draft of the forthcoming 20-year Urban Forest Strategy. While our coalition members are heartened to find that it contains some promising recommendations, it does not paint a clear picture of what’s at stake and fails to motivate…
In mid-May, over four different days, about 80 community members with huge assistance from City staff planted over a thousand bare-root stock specimens on the Churchill Parkway, with the intent of replicating the river-bottom habitat, with understory, middle-story, small trees and big trees. It was…
Trees Please Winnipeg is looking for volunteers from across the city to talk to candidates in their wards about the Trees Please Pledge. We’ll be holding a Zoom meeting to discuss strategy on Wednesday May 25th and hope that all of you can come. Our aim…
Despite current moisture levels our trees are drought stressed and if we get another dry summer, it will be tough for some to survive. Water is essential for trees to take up the nutrients they need to grow and thrive. Without those nutrients, a tree’s…
Calling all urban forest supporters! We invite you to be a part of Trees Please Winnipeg’s #SaveOurCanopy campaign, a lobbying effort we’re launching as part of the run-up to the 2022 civic election. Our urban forest is in crisis due to neglect, invasive pests and…
Our friends at Trees Winnipeg are looking to hire an Executive Director. Check out the job ad here: https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Trees-Winnipeg/jobs Deadline to apply is 6pm on Wednesday, April 20, 2022.
Between 2001 and 2019, “Winnipeg’s ratio of green areas relative to population size dropped to 38 per cent, while cities such as Toronto and Edmonton stood at 70 per cent and 60 per cent, respectively, as of 2019. In other words, Winnipeg is now a…
“Our trees are dyin,’ our sewage is headin’ for the river, but we got no money, for nothin’ but roads.” Sound familiar? Well, if it does, that’s because it pretty much sums up where we’ve been for the last 10 years, budget-wise. And it’s telling…
