“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.β
β Jane Goodall
Discover the heritage of Saskatoon’s Secret Forests converting and transforming to Saskatoon’s Hidden Gems. The Wildwoods of Saskatoon Monday October 24 at 7:00 pm Treasure Saskatoon’s ecoheritage. Come to Nature. Come to Life. . . bit.ly/3rk33pN Eventbrite Link
“As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.”
βLeonardo DiCaprio
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Walk this way in the forest in celebration of 50 years from when trees were planted for George Genereux Urban Regional Park
Sat, Sep 24, 2022 2:00 PM We will walk George Genereux Urban Regional Park. Title Wonders of the Forest! Meet Forest Guide: Sam Ereke, BSc, MSc, Research Scientist. Walking tour Join us as a research scientist leads a nature exploration walk in the forest.
notes: On this tour we can socially distance in this 148 acre mixed woods forest or wear masks for any COVID protocols. We can supply masks/water bottles for participants. Please wear pants, socks and suitable walking shoes for walking in a forest, and clothing suitable for the weather.
The Trembling Aspen is also referred to as the Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) Autumn colour of foliage CC3.0 Stan ShebsAmerican Elm Ulmus Americana autumn leafAutumn picture of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas supported by the non profit group Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Please join now, like, support, share.Autumn picture of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas supported by the non profit group Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Please join now, like, support, share.George Genereux Urban Regional Park, George Genereux Urban Regional Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in the autumn
National Forest Week brings attention to our forests and trees from coast to coast across Canada. Our forests and trees provide habitats for wildlife, insects, polllinator species, birds and so much more! What is the βtriple environmental emergency we are facing?
1. Loss of biodiversity 2. Climate change 3. Out of control pollution.
Out of control pollution. Our native biodiversity needs wild spaces, food and homes such as trees and forests provide in which to thrive. Forests, tree planting, and forest conservation initiatives are nature-based solutions towards climate action. Pollution, pesticides, herbicides are escalating the extinction events. Creating safe, organic forest spaces is a large step to halt and slow down the silent sixth mass extinction event of invertebrates, the planetβs bird food on wings. Ornithologists and botanists have noticed that the songbird, and raptor populations have declined by a staggering 48%. The monitored wildlife populations are reduced by a catastrophic 68%. A loss of forests and habitats have caused over 2/3 of our animal populations to totally disappear.
Richard St. Barbe Baker said it this way, βIf a person loses one third of his or her skin, the person will die; if a tree loses a third of its bark, the tree will die, and if the world loses a third of its trees, the world will die. We live less that five minutes without air and the trees give us air we breathe. We live less than five days without water, and trees are absolutely essential in the water cycle. We live less than five weeks without food, and without the trees we could not grow food.β (Filson, Bruce K. October 7, 1982, Western People, p. 5)
This biodiversity Challenge is a great way to discover new trees and unexplored forest places, or perhaps it is a time to return to celebrate a favourite forest you love and are familiar with
An amazing celebration of virtual and in-person events for the 10th Anniversary of National Forest Week!
βOur Forests β Continually Givingβ is an appropriate theme for this yearβs National Forest Week. September 22 is Canadaβs National Tree Day or Maple Leaf Day. National Forest Week is the week around Maple Leaf Day, the third Wednesday of September. Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. has a virtual guest speaker series Saturday September 18, to Sunday September 26, alongside in-person events such as guided forest walks, forest heritage tours, and a National Forest Week flag raising ceremony on Monday Sept 20 at City Hall Saskatoon at 2 pm to show your love of forests.
What if you are wandering in the forest and discover something. How do you find out what it is? βTo the extent that each person can feel like a naturalist, the old excitement of the untrammeled world will be regained. I offer this as a formula of re-enchantment to invigorate poetry and myth: mysterious and little-known organisms live within walking distance of where you sit. Splendor awaits in minute proportions.” E.O. Wilson, Biophilia. Enjoy our forest favourites, the 326 acre Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area or the 148 acre George Genereux Park right here in Saskatoon!
Tune in to Saskatoonβs Wildlife where the real night life in the city will be revealed. Discover the ecological, social benefits of nature-based solutions to climate change, and the mutual advantages which can be had for climate, society, and nature presented by our partner, SOS Trees Inc. The webinar series provides the opportunity to hear from the City of Saskatoon YXE Green Infrastructure Strategy and Urban Forestry for best practices, innovative strategies, experiences and approaches when it comes to the urban forest in our city. It is a time to discover our universityβs very own TREE program; how it involves students across Canada investigating how our Trembling Aspen communities are faring amid contamination and toxicant, climatic and human events.
Over 2,000 km of shelterbelts became established in the prairies between 1930 and 2013, and during this era of climate action, 40% have been lost. Now into four years of drought, this speaker series will focus on the benefits of shelterbelts with an innovative free app developed by the University to enable farmers to know what their shelterbelt is worth under the $50 per tonne CO2E tax expected to roll out in 2022 β a great way for farmers to reap the benefits of the 2022 carbon offset value for the carbon pricing system and to increase their potential benefits with successful tree plantings.
Or maybe you are intrigued to learn about the health care system capacity under the PaRx program which uses nature to boost patient health.
Another initiative addresses an ingenious Truth and Reconciliation programme. Imagine woodlands setting(s) for health, wellness, understanding, and respect across cultures under the National Healing Forest initiative and how you can become involved.
Join us as we delve into forests and their multiple blessings, for as Richard St. Barbe Baker says, “We stand in awe and wonder at the beauty of a single tree. Tall and graceful it stands, yet robust and sinewy with spreading arms decked with foliage that changes through the seasons, hour by hour, moment by moment as shadows pass or sunshine dapples the leaves. How much more deeply are we moved as we begin to appreciate the combined operations of the assembly of trees, we call a forest.”
National Forest Week The last full week of September. Maple Leaf Day the Wednesday of that week.
Urban forests and greenspaces enhance Saskatoonβs quality of life.
PaRx in Saskatchewan. Health and wellness in the forest
Our Forests. Are They Alive?
Dr. Colin Laroque Agroforestry and the Shelterbelt DSS App
National Healing Forests Maple Leaf Day
Dendrochronology, TREE Cross Canada education program
Flag Raising Ceremony National Forest Week
Wildlife in Forest
When and Where did you see What? iNaturalist presentation to Master Naturalists Sam Kieschnick
The Urban forest and climate change
Who else wants to enjoy Maple Leaf Day and National Forest Week?
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. 52Β° 06β² 106Β° 45β²
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 β Afforestation Area β 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 β SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) β 355 Township Road 362-A
S Β½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) β 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 βGeorge Genereuxβ Afforestation Area β 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
Saturday, June 5 is World Environment Day 2021. As we look forward to this event please reach out and friendsafforestation@gmail.com contact our non profit environmental charity and let us know how best to promote being outside celebrating World Environment Day while being safe during COVID protocols. How would you best encourage awareness and action to protect our environment? What can be implemented to take action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals during the World Environment Day Celebration?
βCalm soul of all things, make it mine, To feel amidst the City βs jar That there abides a peace of thine Men did not make and cannot mar. β ~Richard St. Barbe Baker
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Autumn picture of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas supported by the non profit group Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Please join now, like, support, share.
The Trembling Aspen is also referred to as the Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) May 25, 2019
The Trembling Aspen is also referred to as the Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) May 25, 2019
Trembling Aspen grove Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA
Trembling Aspen grove Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA
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. 52Β° 06β² 106Β° 45β²
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 β Afforestation Area β 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 β SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) β 355 Township Road 362-A
S Β½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) β 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 βGeorge Genereuxβ Afforestation Area β 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
Please help protect / enhance your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail / e-transfersΒ )
Support the afforestation areas with your donation or membership ($20.00/year).Β PleaseΒ donate by paypal using the e-mail friendsafforestation AT gmail.com, or by using e-transfersΒ Please and thank you!Β Your donation and membership is greatly appreciated.Β Members e-mail your contact information to be kept up to date!
βSt. Barbeβs unique capacity to pass on his enthusiasm to others. . . Many foresters all over the world found their vocations as a result of hearing βThe Man of the Treesβ 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.β Allan Grainger
βThe 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 manβs 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 Godβs loveliest creatures β the tree.β ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker.
Bloom where you are planted.Β Afforested in 1972, the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas have become home to native plants of Saskatchewan.Β The forest provides a unique biome, and soil for even the rarest of species.
Rose in the Richard St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area
Small Yellow Lady’s Slipper – Cypripedium parviflorum Courtesy James St. John cc2-0
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Right now, write down 20 things you are grateful for in the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area and George Genereux Urban Regional park.
What are five ways the afforestation areas can help you find health and happiness?
How old are the old-growth areas of the afforestation areas?Β How many trembling aspen bluffs are there?Β Are there other trees which were not afforested?
“There is no mystery about the succession of forest-growths, nothing in Nature is more plain and simple.Β We cannot but admire her wisdom, economy and justness, compensating in another direction for any disadvantage a species may have to labor under.Β Every kind of tree has an interesting history in itself. Seeds with a hard shell, or with a pulpy and resinous covering, which retards their germination, are often saved from becoming extinct by these means.” Mr. Robert Douglas, horticulturalist and forestry consultant.
To celebrate Arbor Day this Friday May 22, 2020 virtually, Coloring Page 2, a pdf file for free download. (preview first)Β In this free coloring page, there is also a puzzle.Β Can you find the two birds in the tree?Β When you are out walking can you find the birds in the trees, and spot the woodpeckers?
Starting Sunday May 17 and continuing on until Sunday May 24, is arbor week.Β Richard St. Barbe Baker..said to a lady once who wanted to plant a tree in his honour, “Madam, don’t plant a tree, plant a wood.”Β And here, in Saskatoon, we have planted an afforestation area named in honour of Richard St. Barbe Baker, biologist and botanist, environmental activist and author.
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. 52Β° 06β² 106Β° 45β²
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 β Afforestation Area β 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 β SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) β 355 Township Road 362-A
S Β½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) β 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 βGeorge Genereuxβ Afforestation Area β 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
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.Richard Louv
βYou cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β β Jane Goodall
Arbor Week is Sunday May 17 to Sunday May 24, with Arbor Day proclaimed for Friday May 22.
To celebrate this amazing time virtually, please download our free coloring page pdf files, and take part in some virtual activities.Β That being said, families can come out for some healthy activity and easily social distance in the forests.
New virtual activities and coloring pages will be added every day!Β Enjoy.
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. 52Β° 06β² 106Β° 45β²
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 β Afforestation Area β 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 β SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) β 355 Township Road 362-A
S Β½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) β 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 βGeorge Genereuxβ Afforestation Area β 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
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.Richard Louv
βYou cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β β Jane Goodall
Do you need an idea, perhaps, for a great Christmas present?
National Sweater Day First Thursday of February
His Royal Highness, Charles Prince of Wales, photo credit Dan Marsh ccx2 Man of the Trees. Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist. By Paul Hanley Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales Introduction by Jane Goodall.
Her Honour Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Grus canadensis Sandhill Crane
Horned Grebe Podiceps Auritus
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Photo of Richard St. Barbe Baker Courtesy: University of Saskatchewan, University Archives & Special Collections,
The other book is Birds of Saskatchewan put out by Nature Saskatchewan.Β What greater way to identify the birds of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, and George Genereux Urban Regional Park?
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. 52Β° 06β² 106Β° 45β²
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 β Afforestation Area β 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SE 23-36-6 β SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) β 355 Township Road 362-A
S Β½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) β 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 βGeorge Genereuxβ Afforestation Area β 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
Please help protect / enhance your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail)
Support the afforestation areas with your donation or membership ($20.00/year).Β PleaseΒ donate by paypal using the e-mail friendsafforestation AT gmail.com, or by using e-transfersΒ Please and thank you!Β Your donation and membership is greatly appreciated.Β Members e-mail your contact information to be kept up to date!
The trees and vegetation, which cover the land surface of the Earth and delight the eye, are performing vital tasks incumbent upon the vegetable world in nature. Its presence is essential to earth as an organism. It is the first condition of all life; it is the “Skin” of the earth, for without it there can be no water and, therefore, no life. ~Richard St. Barbe Baker
“When the trees go, the rain goes, the climate deteriorates, the water table sinks, the land erodes and desert conditions soon appearβ.~Richard St. Barbe Baker
Can you do a 150 hour Zero Waste Challenge for Canada’s 150 Birthday?
Can you do a 150 hour Zero Waste Challenge for Canada’s 150 Birthday?
In other words for 150 hours can you not use a trash can at all.Β Plan your groceries without any trash to throw away – recycle or compost everything not eaten.Β Plan your shopping for minimisation.Β Try to purchase those items which have been re-cycled or re-purposed.Β Ensure any and all packaging can be re-cycled.Β What else can you do for your lifestyle?Β What revelations will you become aware of as you endeavour to become “Waste Free”?
“Anticipate Success. Let us heal the naked scars in the earth and restore her green mantle. Let us set our Earth family in order.”~Richard St. Barbe Baker
If you succeed with your trash can lid taped shut for 150 hours, maybe you can try 150 days!!!Β Draw your attention to 150 hours, what are your consumer habits that support waste, and which demand choices tdo you make which are “Waste Free”?
150 hours:Β Monday at 6:00 a.m.Β to Sunday at 12:00 noon.
If you want to try 150 days “Waste Free” then today is June 10, 2017 so that means that 150 days from today would be November 7, 2017.Β Β 150 Days From Now
So there it is for the 150th Anniversary of Canada, take the “Waste Free” challenge.
Bea Johnson suggests these steps to be successful:
1. Refuse
2. Reduce
3. Reuse
4. Recycle
5. Rot
What does Johnson know about Zero Waste?Β Johnson’s family of four lived an entire year, and their waste for the entire month fit into a one quart canning jar.
What will be your reward for completing the challenge?
You will conserve Canada’s resources, and minimize pollution.
Zero Waste builds community with surplus consumer goods donated to food banks, second hand clothing stores, shelters.Β Composting at community gardens build social networking and support
Zero Waste creates new jobs, as products are repaired, recycled and re-furbished.
Zero Waste saves money as consumers demand less packaging, and more serviceable, and durable products.Β Consumer demand for products when can be recycled creates a circular economy.
Zero Waste creates a healthier lifestyle and economy.Β Eating organic, eating locally so food does not have to be transported, eating without waste, modifies the diet to healthy choices.
Zero Waste protects the environment, preserving resources and biospheres for future generations.
“The world’s problem, is not a population explosion, but animal explosion. We’ve got to decide whether we are going to feed animals or humans. To feed animals is a roundabout way of getting food. It takes 18 times more land to feed people on beef than on vegetables, nuts fruits and grains.” Richard St. Barbe Baker.
Kunst, Amy Zero Waste LivingΒ Why You Should Try Zero-Waste Living With no solution in sight to Americaβs overflowing landfills, there is no better time than now to try zero-waste living. Utne
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. 52Β° 06β² 106Β° 45β²
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 β Afforestation Area β 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SW 23-36-6 β SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) β 355 Township Road 362-A
S Β½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) β 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 βGeorge Genereuxβ Afforestation Area β 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
Please help protect / enhance /commemorate your afforestation areas, please contact the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. (e-mail)
Support the afforestation areas with your donation or membership ($20.00/year).Β PleaseΒ donate by paypal using the e-mail friendsafforestation AT gmail.com, or by using e-transfersΒ Please and thank you!Β Your donation and membership is greatly appreciated.Β Members e-mail your contact information to be kept up to date!
“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
Stand firm. Grip hard. Thrust upward to the skies. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility. ~Richard St. Barbe Baker
“We feel that our greatest victory remains to be won when man will realize his oneness with the trees, the creatures and with all living things, not ours to destroy, but to be handed on for the enjoyment of future generations.” – Richard St. Barbe Baker.
“The dog alone, of all the brute creation, seems capable of a disinterested, self-sacrificing affection; and this, united with his usefulness and adaptedness to all climes and countries, has made him a favorite in every quarter of the globe.”~ Richard L. Allen
Celebrating: Be Kind To Animals Week 4th-10th, Pet Week 5th-11th, Pet Month, Wildflower Week – May 2 -8 Year, Jane Jacobs 101st Birthday!!! (May 4, 1916 β April 25, 2006) Birthday party!!!
Meet Sparky . Dog Walkers Off-leash Get-together. Celebrate pets. Discover Richard St. Barbe Baker legacy, Swale & Afforestation Heritage
Led by Julia Adamson, , Sparky Saskatoon Fire Department Mascot, Chelsie Schafer
May 5, 2017, 10:00 AM, 1-1/2 Hour
D.O.G. YXE ~ South West Off Leash Recreation Area
Led by Julia Adamson, , Sparky Saskatoon Fire Department Mascot, Chelsie Schafer
Meet Sparky @ D.O.G. YXE~ Dog Walkers Off-leash Get-together Celebrate pets at a 101 birthday party! Discover Sutherland Beach History
Led by Julia Adamson, Chelsie Schafer, Sparky Saskatoon Fire Department mascot.
May 5, 2017, 2:00 PM, 1.5 Hours
D.O.G. YXE Jane’s Walk ~ Sutherland Beach Off Leash Recreation Area
Led by Julia Adamson, Chelsie Schafer, Sparky Saskatoon Fire Department mascot.,
“D.O.G. YXE ~ Dog Walkers Off-leash Get-together Gala in Saskatoon YXE.”
This 90 minute festival will begin with a kick-off celebration first; meet “Sparky” the Saskatoon Fire Department mascot . The (1.7 km) walk will include information on Saskatoon’s off leash recreation areas, an insight into the wildlife habitat, health benefits of dog walking, celebrating special occasions in the city you love and providing opportunities for participants to share their own stories. This walk will surely be fun and informative. Representatives from the City of Saskatoon Animal Services Dog Parks will speak to the City’s off leash recreation areas,, the Saskatoon Fire Department will talk about keeping your dog safe around the water.
Bring your pooch, or borrow one from your neighbour and join us for a walk around the South West Off Leash Recreation Area at 10:00 a.m. Friday May 5, 2017 (this walk) OR the Sutherland Beach Off Leash Recreation Area at 2:00 p.m. Friday May 5, 2017! Dress for the weather ~ on average 11.2 Celsius~ please bring a collar, and leash, insect repellent and a bottle of water, and wear proper footwear for walking along a packed dirt roadway…. However, you do not need a pooch to participate! … D.O.G. YXE Jane Walks are free and designed for all residents of Saskatoon and community members. Join us for a walk and be eligible for some give-aways. (while quantities last).
βA city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as the streets of successful city neighborhoods always do, must have three main qualities:
First, there must be a clear demarcation between what is public space and what is private space. Public and private spaces cannot ooze into each other as they do typically in suburban settings or in projects.
Second, there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street. The buildings on a street equipped to handle strangers and to insure the safety of both residents and strangers, must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind.
And third, the sidewalk must have users on it fairly continuously, both to add to the number of effective eyes on the street and to induce the people in buildings along the street to watch the sidewalks in sufficient numbers. Nobody enjoys sitting on a stoop or looking out a window at an empty street. Almost nobody does such a thing. Large numbers of people entertain themselves, off and on, by watching street activity.β
~Jane Jacobs
The dog is peculiarly the friend of man. ~ Richard L. Allen
SW OLRA JANES WALK D.O.G. YXE Friday May 5 2017 10:00 a.m.
Sutherland Beach DOG YXE Friday May 5 20172:00 p.m.
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. 52Β° 06β² 106Β° 45β²
Addresses:
Part SE 23-36-6 β Afforestation Area β 241 Township Road 362-A
Part SW 23-36-6 β SW Off-Leash Recreation Area (Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area ) β 355 Township Road 362-A
S Β½ 22-36-6 Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (West of SW OLRA) β 467 Township Road 362-A
NE 21-36-6 βGeorge Genereuxβ Afforestation Area β 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
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The dog we have always with us; if not active in the garden or passive on the best bed, then gracing or disgracing himself in other domestic capacities. For the dog is a curious combination, wherein heredity constantly opposes culture; and therefore though your dog be a woolly dog or a smooth dog, a large dog or a small dog, a house-dog, yard-dog, hunting-dog or farm-dog, he will be ever a delight and a scandal according as he reveals the complexities of his character. Just as soon as you have decided that he is almost human, he will straightway unmistakably indicate that he is still very much dog.~Edward L Sabin
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. George Genereux Urban Regional Park. 