Earth Day 2020 – Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. George Genereux Urban Regional Park.

Adopt the pace of nature

During this COVID-19 pandemic, take some time during Earth Month this April to learn what makes these afforestation areas so special. This online resource allows one to follow COVID-19 protocols, and stay home while still experiencing nature. The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan talks about the trembling aspen, white spruce and balsam poplar, trees of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area and George Genereux Urban Regional Park. Trembling Aspen is quite unique during a very short time span in the spring. These clones of trees in the aspen bluff will flower, and thus, the astute observer can determine whether that particular clone is female or male. These afforestation areas planted in 1972 made use of drought resistant, hardy tree species recommended by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) as the afforestation areas were started as tree nurseries for the City of Saskatoon Parks. The trees, now much too large to transplant, have created two urban regional parks.

Scots Pine, pine cones, or Pinus_sylvestris. Open cones and seeds. Photo by Didier Descouens

St Barbe Presentation Introducing Richard St. Barbe Baker, OBE, Hon. LL.D. F.I.A.L., For.Dip.Cantab., ACF At the 40th Anniversary of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area Presented by Paul Hanley and Robert White, personal friends of St Barbe On National Tree Day: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 6:00 pm National Forest Week September 23 to 29, 2018 2018 #NationalForestWeek Meet at the SW OLRA parking lot coordinates {latitude and longitude} 52.1004657,-106.7539449 (map) Both Robert White, and Paul Hanley were personal friends of Richard St. Barbe Baker, and will introduce Richard St. Barbe Baker at this event on Wednesday September 26, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. Paul Hanley, environment awareness promoter, activist, free lance writer, speaker, and author will introduce his new book, Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist “Includes a foreword by HRH Prince Charles and an introduction by Jane Goodall" National Forest Week is a celebration of forests and our environmental resources in Canada. The Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area provides an opportunity for those in Saskatoon and area to discover out Saskatoon forests, and to appreciate Richard St. Barbe Baker, a silviculturist of international fame. Come participate in this event, and help to spread the word about this valuable habitat, the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, located in the City of Saskatoon. Learn more about the namesake of this semi-wilderness wildlife habitat, the founder of the International Tree Foundation, Mr. Richard St. Barbe Baker.

Richard St. Barbe Baker OBE, Hon. LL.D. F.I.A.L., For.Dip.Cantab., ACF (9 October 1889 – 9 June 1982)

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How many different kinds of Spruce trees are in the afforestation areas? How does one tell various spruce species one from another? Stay tuned.

Did you know that spring phenological earth day events happen every day!

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir

Today is Monday, April 20, and two days until Earth Day. This year’s Earth Day 2020 theme is Climate Action. When you experience a phenological event during the spring, what is your carbon footprint, if you are staying home and observing protocols for this pandemic?

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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

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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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“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

People realize how much they miss nature

This COVID-19 pandemic has come full circle to a saying by Isaac Newton, “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” When the human population stay in their houses, such as the case in Italy, then “dolphins return to Italy’s coast amid coronavirus lockdown: ‘Nature just hit the reset button’ and the coronavirus lockdown eases pollution, Venice canal runs clear.

American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica) sighted at Richard St. Barbe Baker spring 2019

Rabbit

Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)

Horned Grebe Podiceps Auritus

People were wondering how in the world climate change could be mitigated. Changes could not be seen in the chosen measures until the COVID-19 pandemic engaged various protocols for human health. Air pollution plummeted in China due to coronavirus .

Romain Julliard, head of research at the French Natural History Museum brought forward a most excellent point, “The most important phenomenon perhaps is our relationship with nature changing — with people locked up in their homes realising how much they miss nature, as Nature takes back world’s empty city streets.

So, the other day, someone asked, how many clothes should I have? Well, when one considers the carbon footprint of creating material, zippers, thread, buttons, and all the hidden costs going into the creation of shoes, hats, pants, scarves, jackets, etc. This is, indeed, a good question. A most excellent project while you are voluntarily taking part in your 14 day self isolation, no matter where you live, would be to create your own material without killing animals, and then fashion your own thread, buttons, etc. Then sew your own garment, and factor in the carbon emissions for the shelf made garment.

“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” Emma Goldman

In these days of mass consumption, buying everything ready made off the shelf in our throw-away world does not allow us to discover the expense the world and Nature is taking so that we can have “it.”

For the time and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, did you really miss “it?”

Did you realize how your carbon footprint affected the world? The factories run because we all think we need “it.” This has been brought to the forefront during the pandemic, COVID-19 and the nature trade-off paradigm.

The butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

So, every time each person goes out to buy “it,” how many factories, ships, trucks, trains, created carbon footprints so that we could have “it?”

“The outbreak of epidemics like COVID-19 reveal the fundamental tenets of the trade-off we consistently face: humans have unlimited needs, but the planet has limited capacity to satisfy them“, United Nations Environment Programme.

Today is Friday April 10. This year’s Earth Day 2020 theme is Climate Action. Stop and consider today, about how needs of people weigh in versus the needs of an endangered species.

Locally, in the afforestation areas, the horned grebe and barred tiger salamander are listed as a species of special concern by the Committee On The Status Of Endangered Wildlife In Canada – an Independent Advisory Panel to the Minister Of Environment and Climate Change. The Red-necked Phalarope, Baird’s Sparrow and Grasshopper Sparrow are special concern, and Bobolink, Bank Swallow is threatened nationally under the federal Species at Risk Act SARA Schedule 1. The provincially listed small yellow lady’s slipper is another species in need of environmental guardianship. Protecting critical habitat is thus a key concern.

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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!

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Health is wealth

April 7 is World Health Day
For people one would say that “Health is wealth”. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought an especial awareness of the health of the human species. Hoping today is finding you and yours healthy and well.

Children enjoying their time collecting leaves in the autumn forest.

The Trembling Aspen is also referred to as the Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) May 25, 2019

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

National Sweater Day First Thursday of February

A very interesting thing has come to light also, because of this tragedy; wild animals wander through deserted cities under Covid-19 lockdown. “This is the habitat they once had and that we’ve taken away from them,” said Marcelo Giagnon

“It gives us an opportunity to see what it might be like if we do reduce our movements,” said James Pagé, the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s species at risk and biodiversity specialist.

As humans retreat to their shelters in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, wild animals are having a rare opportunity to come out of their shelters.

“God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. “-Mother Teresa

As we consider our human species health in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is good to be cognizant also of the health of the animals who live locally, and have less and less areas for their habitats and homes.

Reflecting on the health of the human species health during the COVID-19 pandemic, consider the health of the planet.

Health is wealth for animals, and the planet.

“You can gauge a country’s wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.”
Richard St. Barbe Baker

Today is Tuesday, April 7, and coming to the close of the first week of Earth Month. This year’s Earth Day 2020 theme is Climate Action.

Did you know, that protecting the habitat of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, and George Genereux Urban Regional Park as the urban footprint grows ever larger exponentially, that being aware of the environment will stop the extirpation and extinction of endangered species.

The horned grebe and barred tiger salamander are listed as a species of special concern by the Committee On The Status Of Endangered Wildlife In Canada – an Independent Advisory Panel to the Minister Of Environment and Climate Change. The Red-necked Phalarope, Baird’s Sparrow and Grasshopper Sparrow are special concern, and Bobolink, Bank Swallow is threatened nationally under the federal Species at Risk Act SARA Schedule 1. The provincially listed small yellow lady’s slipper is another species in need of environmental guardianship. Protecting critical habitat is thus a key concern. So, where exactly do the small yellow lady’s slipper grow in the afforestation area?

“The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.” Albert Einstein

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