More than 600 Scouts Canada members, their families and friends as well as 200 highschool students helped plant 14,000 trees and shrubs this spring.
THE TREES PROJECT
Assistance for the Private Landowner
Reforesting idle or marginal land has many environmental benefits. Tree planting and reforestation play a key role in reducing pressure on our primary forests and thus preserving original habitat; it slows surface water runoff to lessen or limit the effects of erosion and improve water quality; and, trees absorb COČ so that global warming is reduced. Tree planting and reforestation also sustains biodiversity and protects the natural habitat of the plant and animal species that characterize our region.
Otonabee Conservation offers a tree planting assistance program to private landowners within the Otonabee region watershed.
What We Offer:
- A customized, volunteer-based tree planting program that suits your needs
- Subsidized costs through partner funding
- Site visits by qualified forestry staff
- Planting plans
- Ordering and handling of tree seedlings
- Tree planting by volunteers; we provide the supervision
- Cold storage
- Trucking
- Refill plantings are considered should mortality be greater than 50%
Eligible landowners are those who:
- own a rural property
- property has a minimum of 0.4 hectares (one acre) of suitable land available for tree planting
- Agrees to cover 50% of the total project cost
- Agrees to reasonably protect the plantation
For complete details, please contact Mr. John Williams, Manager, Conservation Lands, directly at (705) 745-5791, extension 216. Plans for the 2012 tree planting season will begin this fall (2011).
The tree planting program is part of The Trees Project, a joint initiative of Otonabee Conservation and the Otonabee Conservation Foundation. The continued success of the tree planting program is due to the involvement and commitment of several individuals and organizations. In 2001, Otonabee Conservation and the Otonabee Conservation Foundation recognize the individual landowners, local high schools, Kawartha Waterways Area Scouts, Meyers Transportation Services, Idealease Peterborough Inc., and the Ministry of Natural Resources Community Fisheries and Wildlife Improvement Program (CFWIP) as well as the Business Partners in Conservation of the Otonabee Conservation Foundation.