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36 Communities Part of Green Streets Canada 2004 !
Ottawa, February 4, 2004 - The President of the Tree Canada Foundation, Jeff Monty today announced the awarding of 36 Canadian municipalities as "Green Streets Canada Communities" for 2004 at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Sustainable Communities National Conference and Trade Show in Ottawa.
"The quality of the applications for this program was superb", Mr. Monty said. "Municipalities have to be congratulated - they continue to realize the importance urban forests play in the economic, social and environmental well-being of their communities".
Green Streets Canada is the country's largest municipal urban forestry program relying on a minimum of 50/50 funding from municipalities and their communities. Municipalities put forward proposals based on: tree inventory, planting, maintenance and education. Total value of Green Streets Canada 2004 projects including Tree Canada, municipalities, volunteers and other sponsors contributions in 2004 is $1,335,902. Over 280 Canadian communities have been greened under the program since 1994 with over $10 million in total funding committed to municipal trees and forests.
The Canadian Forest Service, (CFS) a sector within Natural Resources Canada, is a major funding supporter of the Tree Canada Foundation and its many programs, including Green Streets Canada. Through programs such as this, and with the support of the CFS and its other sponsors, Tree Canada helps focus attention on the increasing importance of urban forestry throughout Canada. Canada's urban forests, home to 80% of the country's people are under increasing threat from: road maintenance, urban expansion, soil compaction, pollution, climate change and the introduction of exotic pests such as Asian longhorned beetle, emerald ash borer and brown spruce longhorn beetle. Through the work of CFS Forestry Centres across Canada (www.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs-scf) research into minimizing the effects of these pests is helping in the battle.
The Tree Canada Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization established to encourage Canadians to plant and care for trees in urban and rural environments. To date the Foundation has engaged more than 60 top Canadian companies and government agencies to support the planting of over 75 million trees, the regreening of over 300 schoolyards, five national urban forestry conferences and other efforts to sensitize Canadians to the benefits of planting and maintaining trees.
For more information, please contact:
Michael Rosen at (613) 567-5545
A list of the communities and a short description of their Green Streets Canada projects appear below.
Green Streets Communities 2004
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Municipality |
Project Highlights/Other Partners |
Total Value |
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0-5,000 inhabitants: Green Streets Canada
Portion = $3,000 |
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Canso, NS |
Updating tree inventory, Stan Rogers Folk Festival Site Reforestation
Project, waterfront planting on waterfront, part of 400th
Anniversary celebrations. Eastern Communities Youth Association.
Chedabucto Bay Folk Society. |
$6,000 |
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Annapolis Royal, NS |
GIS layer for Bridgetown, Middletown and Annapolis Royal. Dutch Elm
Disease detection/injection program. Centre for Geomatics
Science |
$26,000 |
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St. Stephen, NB |
Adopt-A-Street program - tree watchdogs, tree planting
programs. |
$6,000 |
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Baie Verte, NFLD |
Adopt-A-Lot program matches volunteers with abandoned town lots, tree
planting within the village. Tidy Town. |
$6,000 |
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Saint-Vallier, QC |
Articles in municipal journals and establishment of community
nursery, planting of trees. Maisons Fleuris. |
$12,000 |
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Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, QC |
Planting of trees and shrubs as a centretown beautification project.
Volunteer focussed including ISA Québec. |
$16,300 |
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Athens, ON |
Pruning very large (92 cm dbh) maple at Township Hall, tree planting
seminars and planting of 13 caliper trees. Part of Frontennac Biosphere
Reserve. Communities-In-Bloom, Tree Committee, Leeds Stewardship
Council, Athens Garden Club, Cataraqui Valley Conservation Authority.
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$6,000 |
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Naicam, SASK |
Municipal tree inventory. Large municipal planting program. Courses
for workers on tree maintenance. Public seminars. Communities-In-Bloom,
Fire Dep’t., Lions, Cadets. |
$6,000 |
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Esterhazy, SASK |
Planting in historical park, small community nursery and schools and
college. Elm maintenance projects. Elks, Lions, Kinsmen, Canadian
Legion, Potashville Community College. |
$15,350 |
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Spirit River, ALTA |
Major greening initiative including planting on municipal lots and
small nursery. Communities-In-Bloom. |
$7,000 |
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Delburne, ALTA |
Main St. village tree maintenance program, Ewing Pond restoration,
student arborist to be hired, Arbor Day celebrations. Ewing Pond
Beautification Committee, Delburne Centralized School, Jr. Forest
Wardens. |
$9,650 |
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Swan River, MAN |
Planting caliper trees on main street, large tree celebration on
Arbor Day, maintenance in the municipal arboretum. Expansion of nursery.
Swan River Urban Forest Committee. |
$24,000 |
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5,000-25,000 inhabitants: Green Streets Portion =
$5,000 |
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Amherst, NS |
Tree inventory, replacement of dead trees removed in the past,
pruning & maintenance of public trees and public
education. |
$15,000 |
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Cantley, QC |
Woodlot inventory/pamphlet of Mont Cascades park, reforestation of
creek, treeplanting and maintenance at municipal building and parks.
Cantley Environmental Committee. Mont Cascade Community
Association. |
$10,000 |
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Coaticook, QC |
Focus on engaging farmers in treeplanting activities. Centre
régionale d'initiatives et de formation en agriculture. |
$11,675 |
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Dryden, ON |
GIS inventory of municipal trees. Involvement campaign, "Planting
Your Roots". Dryden Horticultural Society, Hydro 1 Forestry,
Ont.Min.Nat.Res., Cubs and Scouts |
$15,000 |
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Kenora, ON |
Planting 131 trees, tree inventory. Monthly articles on tree
maintenance. Creation of Urban Forest Plan. Kenora-In-Bloom Committee.
|
$25,000 |
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Gananoque, ON |
Brochures, pruning workshop and development of an Urban Forestry
Strategic Plan. Gananoque Forestree Advisory Committee, Lions Club,
Rotary, Kinsmen and Horticultural Society involvement. |
$10,000 |
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West Perth, ON |
Participation of Ducks Unlimited, Energy and Environment Committee,
Optimists, Perth Stewardship Network, Wetland Habitat Fund,
Ont.Min.Nat.Res. Neighbourwoods (tree inventory) program. |
$23,437 |
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Yorkton, SASK |
Update inventory. Increase pruning program on elms, maintaining 2
community nurseries, tree planting, memorial tree
plantings. |
$10,000 |
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Estevan, SASK |
Strongly linking trees with reducing asthma in community, birth and
memorial tree programs, Hillcrest Park planting. Shand Greenhouses,
|
$10,000 |
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Rocky Mountain House, ALTA |
Downtown tree planting revitalization project. Jr. Forest Wardens,
Communities-In-Bloom, Clearwater Garden Club |
$38,000 |
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Whitehorse, YK |
FireSmart Project- reducing wildfire risk to city, active downtown
treeplanting program, urban transportation showcase
program. |
$340,600 |
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Colwood, BC |
Boulevard tree inventory, planting of large trees
as part of a downtown beautification project and along Esquimalt Lagoon.
Greater watering. |
$10,000 |
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Salmon Arm, BC |
Extension of caliper tree planting program in
downtown, promotional materials on the benefits of trees, Shuswap Carbon
Sink Initiative. Downtown Improvement Association. Sustainable
Shuswap. |
$12,000 |
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25,000-350,000 inhabitants: Green Streets Portion -
$10,000 |
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Saint-Hyacinthe, QC |
Focus on engaging community groups. Planting to attract birds at
Boisé-des-Douze, elementary school plant, engaging industrial park
residents, water quality project with agricultural groups. L’École
professionelle de Saint-Hyacinthe, Nature-Action Québec, |
$50,000 |
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Gatineau, QC |
Tree seedling program during Québec’s National Tree and Forest Week
(May), major woodland study of the amalgamated city. |
$77,100 |
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Drummondville, QC |
Beautification using caliper-sized trees, creating a citizen's
bulletin, urban forest press conference, tree inventory, increased
maintenance. Société d'Horticulture de Drummondville |
$78,920 |
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Chatham-Kent, ON |
Encouraging planting through tree program - inventory by
municipality/maintenance by residents. Rondeau Bay Watershed
Project. |
$20,000 |
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Sarnia, ON |
Canatara volunteers, Arbor Day Committee, Suncor. Tree inventory and
planting of 50 caliper trees. |
$20,000 |
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Halton Hills, ON |
Participation of Georgetown Agricultural Society. Part of Earth Day
Events. Planting trees on road allowances. |
$20,000 |
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United Counties of SDG, ON |
Planting trees along County roads. Resource Stewardship SDG, Raisin
Region Conservation Authority, South Nation Conservation. |
$26,300 |
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Timmins, ON |
Planting caliper trees to further improve core areas. Participation
of Downtown Business Improvement Assoc. |
$20,000 |
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Moose Jaw, SASK |
Large boulevard planting in the downtown core. Moose Jaw Wildlife
Fed., Rotary Community Orchard. Kinsmen. |
$40,000 |
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350,000+ inhabitants: Green Streets Portion =
$20,000 |
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Montréal, QC |
Rehabilitation of the Village Turcot-CN trainyards, tree awareness in
Côte-des-Neiges, park reforestation Open Houses, woodlot inventory.
Solidarité St-Henri, 4 Éco-Quartiers. |
$271,710 |
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Toronto, ON |
Inventory of naturalization sites, planting in various locations
including Lower Don Valley and Toronto Islands. Bring Back the Don,
Toronto Bay Initiative, Friends of Glendon Forest. |
$40,860 |
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