Our Forest Returns Saskatoon

🌳✨ Exciting news for Saskatoon! We’re thrilled to introduce a timeline for the Richard St. Barbe Baker Natural Infrastructure Project! 🌱 This transformative initiative, part of the City of Saskatoon YXE Green Infrastructure Strategy and its Green Network Project , aims to enhance urban green spaces all around Saskatoon with over $34 million in funding. At Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area experience the new crusher dust trail and garbage cans to the planting of native trees, bushes, grasses and flowers, this project is set to create a vibrant, sustainable environment for our community and wildlife. Join us in exploring how Saskatoon is prioritizing biodiversity, climate resilience, and community engagement. Check out our photo and video gallery showcasing the timeline of this incredible project and learn more about its future impact! 🔗 Transforming Saskatoon: The Richard St. Barbe Baker Natural Infrastructure Project #Saskatoon #GreenInfrastructure #Sustain...

Land & ecosystem degradation reversal. Protect &rehabilitate watersheds, increase carbon storage & recovery of native biodiversity & crops http://friendsareas.ca/ Farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) is a low-cost, sustainable land restoration technique used to increase both food and timber production, and resilience to climate extremes. It is a way to enhance the agricultural land with a supply of ecosystem services that have been depleted by land degradation. Meet Tony Rinaudo Forest Maker bestowed the Member of the Order of Australia and “alternative Nobel” winner We along with Tony Rinaudo are excited to let you know that his new autobiography The Forest Underground: Hope for a Planet in Crisis , will be published on April 30 th  2022 by ISCAST–Christians in Science and Technology – see media release , first chapter sample , and product info sheet attached. FMNR video release   Tony Rinaudo knew and was inspired by the first Glob...

 You are invited June 5 at 2:00 pm to a ceremonial commemorative Tree Planting for 50th Anniversary World Environment Day near the Diefenbaker Centre U of S http ://friendsareas.ca/   You are cordially invited to special tree planting ceremony by the University of Saskatchewan collaborating with the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas on World Environment Day (W.E.D.), June 5, 2022 This ceremony echoes a tree planting ceremony 40 years ago to the day of the last tree planted by the Richard St. Barbe Baker in union with the University of Saskatchewan on World Environment Day (W.E.D.), June 5, 1982 near the Diefenbaker Centre. This collaboration between the U of S and Richard St. Barbe Baker on his visit here from New Zealand, honoured him as a former graduate (1913), and recipient of an honorary doctorate in 1971. This tree was the last tree this extraordinary champion of trees and forests planted as he died in Saskatoon four days later. In 2014, the Meewasin Valley Au...