A Green Canopy Throughout the City of Kingston: Protect Preserve Manage

The city has a duty to take the long view towards a healthy urban forest.Large cities such as Mississauga have developed forest management plans based on the MNR MFTIP tax incentive program for private woodlot owners.

The Ontario Woodlot Association is one of many agencies active throughout Ontario helping Private woodlot owners and municipalities in managing their woodlots.The City of Kingston if not already linked to this association would benefit from their staffs expertise.

We know the benefits of a healthy forest in urban areas.We know the challenges of municipal growth and the challenges that presents to urban forests.The evidence is all around us.

The conventional wisdom of planting and ‘tabulating how many trees ‘ we plant in any year will never replace the ecosystems we destroy by massive tree removal such has been the practice for years.We are too far down the climate change path to continue past municipal forest management practices.