Great coverage of the Trees Please Winnipeg Coalition in the March 21 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press. Read Making a case for trees: Group hopes putting price on urban forests builds economic argument for preservation. “It’s about money, but it’s also about a change in…
In an op-ed piece, Urban forest deserves multi-layered support (Winnipeg Free Press, February 19, 2021), Trees Please volunteer Erna Buffie argues that trees are valuable infrastructure as worthy of government investment as any pipe or stretch of pavement. For the past 30 years, bio-economists have…
Reduce road spending, save the trees urges city coalition (Winnipeg Free Press, November 21, 2019) Trees Please, a coalition of more than a dozen neighbourhood associations and community organizations, lobbies for a minimum $7.61 million increase to the City of Winnipeg Urban Forestry department. “We…
Community, residents groups support forestry budget: Groups across city calling for council to fully fund department The Herald, November 14, 2019 Lisa Forbes of Trees Please and Ron Mazur of OURS-Winnipeg explain the need for a bigger Urban Forestry budget ahead of the 2020 municipal budget…
OURS-Winnipeg explains its push at city hall for more money for the urban forestry budget through a campaign called “Save Our Canopy” – see the video here: https://globalnews.ca/video/6173580/save-our-canopy-campaign
“A group of concerned Winnipeg residents are calling on the city to put aside more money for Winnipeg’s urban forestry branch in next year’s budget, after a year of extreme weather conditions and insect infestations that it said has “devastated” the city’s tree canopy. …”…
