Winter Speaker Series: Tree Planting Workshop, 50 Million Trees for Ontario - Tim Gray

January 31, 2012 by Louise Livingstone

Tim Gray – Tree Planting Workshop, 50 Million Trees for Ontario

The goal of the 50 Million Tree Program is to sequester carbon; enhance and diversify southern Ontario’s landscape; increase adaptive capacity to withstand climate change; moderate local climate by providing shade, moderating temperature extremes and reducing the effects of storms; increase wildlife habitat; increase soil and water conservation, and provide local economic opportunities.

The program is designed to significantly reduce landowner’s costs of large-scale tree planting and thereby increase the number of trees planted. At a cost of 0.15 cents per tree for landowners, up to $1.35 may be accessed through Trees Ontario funding programs.  Program descriptions are available at www.treesontario.ca 

O'Hara Mill Homestead...where Nature Meets History; Building a Water Powered Sawmill

This will be pictorial presentation of some of the major and day to day accomplishments of the O'Hara Volunteers Association on this historic site plus the development of our extensive hiking trails. We will also show some of the plants, birds and animals that frequent this lovely 85 acre Conservation area, and the tree thinning operation carried out by Quinte Conservation last winter, and how it will ultimately affect the natural habitat in a positive way.

Speaker: Dave Little. Slide presentation:  Peter Sporring.

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