In the Glenelm neighbourhood of Elmwood, folks are extremely dismayed at how many of our majestic mature boulevard elms are being lost to Dutch Elm Disease every year. To add insult to injury, many of those removed trees are not being replanted. Our Trees Committee formed to come up with a plan to address these issues.
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…
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…
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. …”…
Winnipeg (November 12, 2019) — Winnipeg’s iconic tree canopy is in crisis due to disease, climate change and chronic under-funding. Every year, Winnipeg loses more trees than are planted – and it promises to get worse unless Winnipeggers all work together to reverse this trend.…
