Yearly archives: 2020

Authors: Niko Casuncad, Nadia Dowhaniuk, Shannen Doyle, Ross Edwards, Danielle Lenarcic Biss, and Gelila Mekonnen, The Ryerson “Tree Team” “The story is the basic unit of human understanding.” James Maskalyk We are a team of six graduate students in the Master of Planning in Urban Development program at Ryerson University’s […]

Developing an Interpretive Tree Story Map: The Story of the ...

March 4, 2020 in Urban Forest by OUFC

Authors: Julian Alvarez-Barkham, Jaqueline De Santis, and Johnpaul Loiacono, Forestry, University of Toronto The 2019 OUFC Conference, “Making Cities Resilient,” provided an invaluable opportunity to hear from a wide range of professionals in our field about important and current topics in urban forestry. One of the first speeches was delivered […]

OUFC’s “Making Cities Resilient” Conference Testimonial

March 4, 2020 in Urban Forest by OUFC

Author: Jade Schofield, OUFC Fifty-nine cities worldwide have been recognized as the first official ‘Tree Cities of the World’. This program is led by the Arbour Day Foundation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations alongside its Canadian partner, Tree Canada. The Tree Cities of the World program […]

Tree Cities of the World

March 4, 2020 in Urban Forest by OUFC

Author: Sadia Butt, OUFC After the City of Burlington’s council declared a Climate Emergency on April 23, 2019, staff began working on implementing a city-wide private tree bylaw. Recognizing that trees were an essential component of climate mitigation, resilience and adaptation along with the fact that nearly 90 % of […]

Congratulations to the City of Burlington’s Implementation of a City-Wide ...

March 4, 2020 in Urban Forest by OUFC

Author: John Barker, OUFC In 2018, the City of Toronto undertook a comprehensive urban forest assessment with its second canopy study. The project followed on the 2008 study, published as Every Tree Counts, which was revised in 2013. The aim was to update the City’s knowledge of current urban forest […]

Toronto Canopy Study

March 4, 2020 in Urban Forest tagged Toronto / urban forest by OUFC