Earn a College Diploma and University Degree in Just 4 Years with Fleming’s New Urban Forestry Program Peterborough, ON – (January 19, 2012) – Fleming College has launched a new Urban Forestry Technician program that will lead students to a career in the emerging field of conserving and sustaining urban forests […]
Daily archives: June 8, 2014
by Jeff Kirwin http://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/finding-strength-and-solace-in-a-tree/ Evelyn Thompson Lawrence’s story is about Sallie’s Crying Tree, a large white oak growing near the town square in Marion, Virginia. This remarkable woman has spent a lifetime reminding people that this tree — and others like it — represents our history and must be preserved. […]
Finding Strength and Solace in a Tree
Active History on the Grand: Heritage Trees in Ontario Jan 2nd, 2012 by Karen Dearlove. Heritage White Oak Tree in Cambridge While many of us may be familiar with the designation of built heritage properties under the Ontario Heritage Act, recently municipalities have been using the Ontario Heritage Act to designate individual […]
Heritage White Oak in Cambridge
The beginning of a new year is a good time for story telling and while this story is familiar to some it never hurts to repeat a good true story to inspire a new audience or remind us of our motivation. The Great White Bronte Oak is now an Urban […]
Heritage Tree Preservation – A Success Story
Burlington White Oak recognized as an Ontario Heritage Tree by Joyce Vanderwoude This majestic White Oak tree, 30 metres high and with a circumference close to 500 cm, is quite possibly one of the oldest and largest Quercus alba specimens in Canada. The tree was nominated jointly by Linda McKay of the […]