This fantastic article by Colleen Zacharias was first published in the November edition of the Manitoba Master Gardeners Newsletter and is re-published here with permission. Colleen is the gardening columnist for the Free Press and you can find her writing in the Homes section of…
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…
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…
The preliminary 2022 budget is out…and doesn’t look good for public trees. First the good news. Voices like yours are helping to push council to do the right thing! The pressure we’ve been exerting on council to increase the Urban Forestry Department’s budget is starting to pay off:…
As you know, Winnipeg’s trees are dying at an alarming rate from pests, disease, construction, effects of climate change, and lack of funding. If we continue at our current pace of investment in our urban forests, half of Winnipeg’s 3,000,000 trees may be gone by…
