Category: April 24

For directions as to how to drive to “George Genereux” Urban Regional Park

For directions on how to drive to Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

For more information:

Blairmore Sector Plan Report; planning for the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, George Genereux Urban Regional Park and West Swale and areas around them inside of Saskatoon city limits

P4G Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth The P4G consists of the Cities of Saskatoon, Warman, and Martensville, the Town of Osler and the Rural Municipality of Corman Park; planning for areas around the afforestation area and West Swale outside of Saskatoon city limits

Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SW 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063
Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot
Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com
Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map
Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)? with map

Facebook Group Page: Users of the George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Facebook group page : Users of the St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

Instagram: St.BarbeBaker

You Tube Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

You Tube George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Please help protect / enhance /commemorate your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail / e-transfers)

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For directions as to how to drive to “George Genereux” Urban Regional Park

“St. Barbe’s unique capacity to pass on his enthusiasm to others. . . Many foresters all over the world found their vocations as a result of hearing ‘The Man of the Trees’ speak. I certainly did, but his impact has been much wider than that. Through his global lecture tours, St. Barbe has made millions of people aware of the importance of trees and forests to our planet.” Allan Grainger

“The science of forestry arose from the recognition of a universal need. It embodies the spirit of service to mankind in attempting to provide a means of supplying forever a necessity of life and, in addition, ministering to man’s aesthetic tastes and recreational interests. Besides, the spiritual side of human nature needs the refreshing inspiration which comes from trees and woodlands. If a nation saves its trees, the trees will save the nation. And nations as well as tribes may be brought together in this great movement, based on the ideal of beautifying the world by the cultivation of one of God’s loveliest creatures – the tree.” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker.

“I believed that God has lent us the Earth. It belongs as much to those who come after us as to us, and it ill behooves us by anything we do or neglect, to deprive them of benefits which are in our power to bequeath.” Richard St. Barbe Baker

Sing your song

ARBOR DAY APRIL 24

Hoar Frost and Rime Ice covering the trees at the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, Saskatoon , SK , in the bright morning sunlight

“Who plants a tree loves others than himself” Richard St. Barbe Baker. For the love of trees.

Sir George William Ross adapted the Arbor Day Manual with tree planting songs for school children. The classroom curriculum from Patriot Recitations and Arbor Day Exercises adopted poems for the children to recite for each tree species chosen to be planted on Arbor Day. Try to cultivate Joy and Wonder. For instance, the pupil for his recitation may say;” I love the pine. tt stands up so straight and tall, that it looks like a king among trees. I have two verses to the pine by James Russell Lowell:

“‘Thou alone know’se the splendor of winter
‘Mid thy snow-silvered, hushed precipices,
Hearing crags of green ice grown and splinter,
And then plunge down the muffled abysses,
In the Quiet of midnight.

“‘Thou above know’st the glory of summer,
Gazing down on thy broad seas of forest;
On thy subjects that send a proud murmur
Up to thee, to their sachem, who towerest
From they bleak throne to heaven.'”

Richard St. Barbe Baker wrote tree songs for tree planting ceremonies.

If you were to write a tree planting song, what would you say? As you plant your tree, sing your song, and post it online! Show how you take climate action! Trees are carbon sinks.

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April 21-27 is Earth Week! Friday, April 24, and coming to the close of Earth Month. This year’s Ear th Day 2020 theme is Climate Action.

For directions on how to drive to Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

Blairmore Sector Plan Report; planning for the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, George Genereux Urban Regional Park and West Swale and areas around them inside of Saskatoon city limits

For more information:

Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada north of Cedar Villa Road, within city limits, in the furthest south west area of the city. 52° 06′ 106° 45′
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 – Afforestation Area – 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 – SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) – 355 Township Road 362-A
S ½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) – 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 “George Genereux” Afforestation Area – 133 Range Road 3063
Wikimapia Map: type in Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Google Maps South West Off Leash area location pin at parking lot
Web page: https://stbarbebaker.wordpress.com
Where is the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area? with map
Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)? with map

Facebook Group Page: Users of the George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Facebook group page : Users of the St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

Please help protect / enhance your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail)

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For directions as to how to drive to “George Genereux” Urban Regional Park

“By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited… The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.”~Bill Gates.

Kind of like the COVID-19 coronavirus, by the time COVID-19 gets really bad, then the ability to fix it is extremely limited.

“If we’re concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that’s healthy and strong.”~Cory Booker

“We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.”~David Attenborough

Scoop The Poop

National Scoop the Poop Week – April 24-30

When you pop out to the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area or George Genereux Urban Regional Park, please observe this commemorative occasion. The South West Off Leash Dog Park, would super appreciate your efforts. The snow changes between ice and puddles and it is not too, too much fun falling in a loaded puddle.

April is Community Spirit Month, and this week is a great time to show community spirit!

Protect your dog in the severe cold winter weather warnings.

Puppies. Puppy Day March 23.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

In keeping with the Earth Month Climate Action theme, there are ways to have pets, and take action on climate change. A very simple way according to Verge is to change over your pet’s kibble to a plant based protein formula. Dr. Mercola also advises to “Kick all Kibble to the Curb” suggesting to “incorporate a variety of fresh foods into your pet’s diet, too. Blueberries, chia and hemp seeds in coconut oil, raw pumpkin seeds, fermented vegetables and kefir. Dogs Naturally advises to consider healthy ways of using plant proteins, and soak, rinse or ferment all legumes first to reduce the lectin content. Lindsay Nixon mentions, that she feeds her dogs [pre-soaked or pressure cooked] brown rice with a “base of lentils [also pre-soaked or pressure cooked], with bell pepper, cucumber, yellow squash, cabbage, lettuce and cauliflower, plus some leftover rice.”

We have to change how we produce and consume food, not just for environmental reasons, but because this is an existential issue for humans.
Janet Ranganathan, vice-president for science and research at the World Resources Institute (WRI)

National Scoop the Poop Week – April 24-30 falls within Earth Month with a theme this year of Climate Action.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

For directions on how to drive to Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

For more information:

Facebook Group Page: Users of the George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Facebook group page : Users of the St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

Please help protect / enhance your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail / e-transfers )Support the afforestation areas with your donation or membership ($20.00/year). Please donate by paypal using the e-mail friendsafforestation AT gmail.com, or by using e-transfers Please and thank you! Your donation and membership is greatly appreciated. Members e-mail your contact information to be kept up to date!

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For directions as to how to drive to “George Genereux” Urban Regional Park

By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.
Thomas Fingar, U.S. intelligence community’s analyst

“They’re teaching about The Pyramid of Life in the schools today. There is the ground producing all the soil bacteria, which is in the top few inches. That grows the grass, and a a lamb comes along and eats ten pounds of grass, and that makes one lamb, and then a tiger comes along and eats ten pounds of lamb, and that makes one pound of tiger. We have too many tigers. The Pyramid of Life is upset, and one of the things we must do is to turn from an animal economy to a silvan economy. We’ve got to have tree crops, instead of wasting all this land for raising beef and bringing money to the beef barons, who are proud to call themselves beef barons. It takes eighteen times more land to feed people on beef than it does on nuts and fruit. Eighteen times more land. When half the human family today are dying from starvation. I don’t feel justified in making these demands on the earth. I, myself have been a lifelong vegetarian. ” Richard St. Barbe Baker. State of the Forests. Probe Post Canada’s Environmental Magazine, October 1982. Richard Beharriell interview with Richard St. Barbe Baker

what are you doing for others?

April 19-25 is National Volunteer Week

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”~Herman Melville

Grant Ireland and his four West Highland White Terriers, Phoenix 17, Lacy 12, Tasha 11, Feona 8 out at the South West Off Leash Recreation Area, Richard St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Children enjoying their time collecting leaves in the autumn forest.

Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla Garrulus Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Blue heron

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

For directions on how to drive to Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

For more information:

Blairmore Sector Plan Report; planning for the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, George Genereux Urban Regional Park and West Swale and areas around them inside of Saskatoon city limits

Facebook Group Page: Users of the George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Facebook group page : Users of the St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

Instagram: St.BarbeBaker

You Tube Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

You Tube George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Please help protect / enhance /commemorate your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail / e-transfers)

1./ Learn.

For directions as to how to drive to “George Genereux” Urban Regional Park

“The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.” — Viktor Frankl

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.” — Alice Walker

Thank you so much!

April 19-25 is National Volunteer Week

Thank you to all volunteers during this week.

“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.” ~Aristotle

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Parents and Child in Nature

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Dog waiting for a walk at South West Off Leash Dog Park

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde

Please take care on your walks in the two Saskatoon Afforestation Areas, Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestion Area (urban regional park) and the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (afforestation area.) Please follow the protocols set out by the City of Saskatoon and the Province of Saskatchewan. Thank you kindly.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

For directions on how to drive to Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

For more information:

Blairmore Sector Plan Report; planning for the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, George Genereux Urban Regional Park and West Swale and areas around them inside of Saskatoon city limits

Facebook Group Page: Users of the George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Facebook group page : Users of the St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

Instagram: St.BarbeBaker

You Tube Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area

You Tube George Genereux Urban Regional Park

Please help protect / enhance /commemorate your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail / e-transfers)

1./ Learn.