Trees-In-The-News

These arborists explain how to save your trees from breaking in the next big storm

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Aastha Shetty · CBC News · Posted: Aug 11, 2022 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: August 11 “A powerful storm in Elora, Ont. recently left a large number of trees bent and broken, bringing down some that were more than 100-years-old. A number of those trees also came dangerously close to falling on nearby homes. Local arborists say there was a way to prevent that — tree maintenance.“Look […]

Ottawa’s pledge to plant two billion trees is proving difficult to execute

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MATTHEW MCCLEARNPUBLISHED AUGUST 7, 2022UPDATED AUGUST 12, 2022 “Standing atop an old landfill, Francis Allard is in his element. Mr. Allard is co-founder of Ramo, whose business is planting willows and poplars to help remediate landfills, mines and marginal land. At the Ste-Sophie Landfill north of Montreal, the company is growing willows to treat leachate from areas […]

Are We Doing Tree Planting Right?

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The Agenda with Steve Paikin August 11, 2022 “It’s fairly easy to plant a tree when purchasing products or donating to tree-planting programs. But when done poorly, tree-planting can hinder biodiversity and harm the planet. When does tree-planting becoming green-washing? What’s the relationship between land, species, and technology when it comes to global tree-planting?”Click here […]