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I read with interest No budget yet for Liberals’ promise to plant two billion trees by 2030 in the Toronto Sun’s November 2nd issue. Your readers might like to know that, in 2020, Forests Ontario planted nearly 2 million trees with funding from the Government of Canada, despite COVID-19.

Forests Ontario brought some holiday cheer to the Distillery Historic District with the delivery of a massive, locally sourced Balsam Fir tree on Monday. The 40cm diameter tree will be adorned with 60,800 new LED lights and thousands of decorations, which will be on display until January 10th.

Local company Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve to take over operations of Rayonier Advanced Materials’ Huntsville Sawmill and Forestry Division

On September 30th, Kayanase staff and their families gathered for a socially distanced Reconciliation Community Tree Plant (RCTP) at Kayanase Greenhouse, located in the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve.

On September 23rd, twenty-five community and First Nations partners gathered for a socially distanced Reconciliation and Climate Change Planting event on the traditional territories of the Algonquin and Mohawk Nations in Shanly, Ontario to form ‘The Healing Place.’

More than 500,000 new trees are growing in honour of Canadian veterans, thanks to the combined efforts of the Highway of Heroes (HOH) Tree Campaign and Forests Ontario.

Plus de 500 000 nouveaux arbres honorent le souvenir de vétérans canadiens grâce aux efforts conjugués de la campagne Des arbres pour l’Autoroute des héros et de Forests Ontario. Ces jeunes plants donnent encore plus d’ampleur au monument vert qui borde déjà l’autoroute la plus empruntée au Canada.

Local landowners are planting plenty of young trees in the Rideau Valley region this spring, thanks to Forests Ontario’s 50 Million Tree Program (50 MTP), says the local conservation authority.

Landowners in the Cataraqui Watershed have big plans to plant trees this spring under Forests Ontario’s 50 Million Tree Program (50 MTP). Forests Ontario has taken orders for 139,000 trees to go in the ground in 2020, according to numbers released this week by the tree planting and forest advocacy organization.

Ce printemps, le monument vivant dédié aux anciens combattants et aux soldats canadiens disparus qui longe l’autoroute la plus empruntée au pays prendra de l’ampleur grâce à un nouveau soutien financier.

On November 12th, The Guardian published an article titled ‘Where will we plant those two billion trees to fight climate change‘, referring to Prime Minister Trudeau’s promise to plant two billion trees over the next decade. Our CEO Rob Keen responded with an op-ed, which you can find below.

Dave de Sylva, P.Eng. and President and Founder of Howland Green Homes, has always been focused on efficiency. He began his career in geothermal energy and eventually merged into sustainable design and construction. De Sylva has an ever-growing passion for science and believes “when you talk to science, science talks back”. This belief has helped de Sylva to continue asking questions, experimenting, and innovating past the norms.