celebrations – Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. George Genereux Urban Regional Park.

The provincial government officially declared May 28 -June 6 as Arbor Week in Saskatchewan.

“Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.”
Munia Khan

Many towns, cities and communities are taking part in Arbor Week celebrations to appreciate trees and their many benefits.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association encourages all citizens of Saskatchewan to take heed of trees and forests during this week. Events put on by the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. out at the afforestation areas Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, and George Genereux Urban Regional Park. SOS Trees Inc. has also a listing of Arbor Week Events in Saskatoon for this week.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
Paulo Coelho

“Celebrate by taking a walk in the park, head out to a local forest or just notice the trees in your community and even on the street that you live on,” Saskatchewan Minister of the Environment Vicki Gauthier said. “Just have some appreciation for all the hard work that they are doing for us.”

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.
George Nakashima

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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! Canada Helps

United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

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““Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven..”
Richard St. Barbe Baker

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
John Muir

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