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Comment on Meridian Credit Union Supports GUFF Photo Contest by Carol Long

Carol Long — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:12:07 +0000

It’s a shame the contest ended so early. The trees were just starting to get beautiful at the beginning of October. Maybe next year you could extend the deadline for a week or two.

Comment on Karl Wettstein – Ward 6 Candidate by aelaan12

aelaan12 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:34:54 +0000

For people telling that we need a strong tree bylaw I urge them to read the bill that explains the tree bylaw under Guelph’s Strategic Urban Forest Management Plan and the updates to the tree bylaw: http://guelph.ca/newsroom_display.cfm?itemID=79078

Comment on GUFF Photo Contest 2011 by GUFF

GUFF — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:27:05 +0000

GUFF will display winning photographs at an art exhibit and on our website with credit to the photographer until March 2012. Any other use of any submitted photographs will be with permission.

Comment on GUFF Photo Contest 2011 by Randy

Randy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:49:50 +0000

I’d love to submit a photo but would just like to clarify that you’re asking to use the submitted photos for GUFF’s purposes – you are not asking the submitters to give you their full copyright in their creations, is that correct?
Thanks.

Comment on The Trees In Our Life Series “Heritage Trees”- May 11 by John Aldham

John Aldham — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:09:51 +0000

Thank you GUFF for responding to my proposal and I wish I had entered this particular tree in your Old Growth Urban Tree Contest last year and perhaps we could have saved it. I hope permission is granted by the city to collect seedlings of the old burr oak, unless of course the rest of the trees have been cut down and the area has been graded over (I haven’t been out there since I first noticed the great oak’s demise several weeks ago).

The forest that is part of these Hanlon Creek Business Park (HCBP) lands, and is to be protected in the plan (although many feel the buffer zones are too close to the forest), has many different species of trees that are very fine specimans of old growth trees. I don’t know what plans are in the works, if any, to widen the deer paths to have people walking through there when the HCBP is in full development but I can only think that they will and the forest will suffer because of it. I make a further proposal to GUFF that we concerned citizens be allowed to also to take an inventory and photograph the existing specimans in this forest to understand the rich diversity within this relativly small area of wooded land.

I thank you for your time and would be very interested to be there helping out.
Sincerely,
John Aldham

Comment on The Trees In Our Life Series “Heritage Trees”- May 11 by GUFF

GUFF — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:27:45 +0000

Hello John. GUFF is looking into gathering any existing seed stock from this tree. We are applying for approval and will look for seedlings on site. You are right that it is important to keep the hereditary line of these old great trees going and we thank you for alerting us to this one. We too are sorry that these mature trees are removed “for progress”.

Comment on Gallery by tree hugger

tree hugger — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:12:25 +0000

Wow! What a lot of great kids we have in Guelph. Lots of little stewards of our trees growing up here. Nice project. Thanks to all those teachers who got it moving.

Comment on The Trees In Our Life Series “Heritage Trees”- May 11 by John Aldham

John Aldham — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:07:06 +0000

I used to live on the current site of the Hanlon Creek Business Park off of Downey Rd. and it was a farm at one time but we still called it “The Farm” when I lived there. Surrounding the yard around the house was a square perimeter of spruce trees and behind the house was a grand old Burr Oak tree estimated at 200 yrs, I thought that this area would be included in the design as a small park. This is not the case and I discovered that the oak tree has been cut down and it makes me very angry that they did not protect it. I don’t know why this decision was made but an initial call to the city was ignored. The only thing I can think of, to do something positive for such a negative action, is to collect any acorns or seedlings around the area where the tree once stood, provided they haven’t leveled the whole area.

The problem is that it is illegal for anyone to set foot on the property due to the court injunction imposed after the protests, I’m wondering if anyone may be interested in collecting and if anyone may be able to get permission from the city to do so especially GUFF with a such a noble profile in Guelph. I welcome any feedback.

Thank you

John Aldham

Comment on The Trees In Our Life – February 23 2011 by tree hugger

tree hugger — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:43:52 +0000

Thanks for the terrific presentation by Brenlee Robinson. More trees around community buildings resulting in lowered crime rates is very timely information for Guelph. Calming the neighbourhood as well as reducing the ‘heat island effect’ in cities is important research. Looking forward to the next presentation on the value of old trees.

Comment on Karolyne Pickett – Ward 1 Candidate by Ben Barclay

Ben Barclay — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:21:39 +0000

Wow – Karolyne really knows what she’s talking about! I think she would make a great tree advocate on council. I just want to add a point to her and others about urban trees.

New developments and roads greatly compact the soil, to the point where planted trees will fail to thrive or die long before their time. The University of Ithaca developed an amazing technique of building soil which can be compacted to modern engineering standards, but allows proper root development and watering of trees.

They produced a video of how to do this, a copy of which is on file at Aboud and Associates, a local ecology firm (professional arborists).