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Trees Risk Assessment in Campgrounds and Recreational Parks

Canadians love our outdoor activities – camping, hiking or enjoying nature’s beauty in our beautiful parks. Forests are the main fabric of our natural world and greatly contribute to environmental, social, and economic values to all of us.  People love and enjoy being around trees and nature. Trees truly enhance the beauty and enjoyment of …

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Impacts and Consequences of Field Windbreak Removal

The value of field windbreaks, either planted or natural occurring, has been known for many decades in Canadian Prairie Provinces. Since the 1930s, farmers and ranchers have planted trees to reduce the negative effect of the wind to their homes, soil, crops, livestock, and their water and land infrastructure. Impact and consequences of field windbreak …

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Prairie and Trees: how to plant and establish trees and shrubs in dry Canadian prairies

Simply put, Prairie and Trees don’t get together well. Dry southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba prairies are very challenging for tree and shrubs establishment. Most of the trees and shrubs you see around farmyards, fields, parks and RV campgrounds were planted in the last 120 years. Prior European settlement prairie has very few trees and …

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