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

Challenges and Prizes

Did the “Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc“, non profit environmental charity mention that there are challenges and an opportunity to be eligible to win prizes? Tomorrow is Monday February 15, family day in Saskatchewan.

Well, during COVID-19 there are Public Health Organisation regulations to not arrange an event with a date and a time. So, our Take It Outside Winter Staycation programming has some amazing challenges to promote being “Outside Safely.”

Our challenges are set up for your family or your personal COVID bubble to come out to the 326 acre Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area and have a lot of fun!

With family day coming up, try this activity. At home place a couple of drops of food colouring in a balloon you have freshly removed from a bag of balloons. Then take the balloon and enclose the mouth of the balloon around the water tap, and fill the balloon up. Like making a coloured water balloon.

Make a few of these and put them outside to freeze. Place them in your vehicle and come on out to the afforestation area. When you arrive you can walk your dog in the South West off leash recreation area, and place your creations (remove the rubber balloon, and just leave the coloured ice) alongside the dog park fence or up on the snow piles created by the bulldozers this year! What a great way to cheer up the edges of the forest pathways!

They will even make superlative sun catchers for everyone to enjoy. Take a picture of your snow globes which you have placed in the afforestation area, and send the email in to friendsafforestation@gmail.com to be entered into the prize draw. Yay!

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
NEW P4G District Official Community Plan
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
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Where is the George Genereux Urban Regional Park (Afforestation Area)?with map
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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

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Use the UN Decade’s Visual Identity Make it your own

Spread the word about the UN Decade

Let’s Bring Back Forests

Let’s Green Our Cities

“The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. ” Wangari Maathai.

“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 nations 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.

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― e. e. cummings

“We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…”
― john lennon

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller

Virtual Outside Tour

Well, it is -28 and we are setting records for a frosty -53 windchill these days.

Therefore, the Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc are proud to offer to you a You Tube video of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, and encourage your family / COVID bubble to come outside in this 326 acre forest when you are able to appropriately bundle for the weather.

The Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Winter Staycation Brochure and download

The Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Winter Staycation Poster and download

Please feel free to share our Nutrien WinterShines 2021 engagement!

Check out our Nutrien WinterShines addition to the programming in 2021 on Eventbrite.

Please check the Tourism Saskatoon CommUNITY Commitment

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Use the UN Decade’s Visual Identity Make it your own

Spread the word about the UN Decade

Let’s Bring Back Forests

Let’s Green Our Cities

“The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. ” Wangari Maathai.

“Calm soul of all things, make it mine,
To feel amidst the City ‘s jar
That there abides a peace of thine
Men did not make and cannot mar. “
~Richard St. Barbe Baker

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.~ Wangari Maathai

“ If a nation saves its trees, the trees will save the nation. ” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

Nutrien Wintershines 2021

Take It Outside Winter Stay-cation a part of Nutrien WinterShines - Saskatchewan's Premier Winter Festival taking place February 15 - 21, 2021 with thanks to the City of Saskatoon Take It Outside Grant Thank you — Take It Outside Winter Stay-cation a part of Nutrien WinterShines – Saskatchewan’s Premier Winter Festival taking place February 15 – 21, 2021 with thanks to the City of Saskatoon Take It Outside Grant Thank you

The Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas have listed their exciting “Winter Staycation” to promote being “Outside Safely” with Nutrien WinterShines – Saskatchewan’s Premier Winter Festival taking place February 15 – 21, 2021. Our non profit environmental charity wish to thank the City of Saskatoon for the Take It Outside Grant to make this programming possible.

The Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. non profit environmental charity is proud to present a COVID friendly Take It Outside Winter Staycation programs and challenges at the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. Our challenges posted online provide incentive to “take it outside.” Register your participation for prizes! We promote an “Outside Safely” lifestyle with social distancing in the large space (326 acres) Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Areas encouraging COVID bubbles to take part exciting winter challenges for the Nutrien WinterShines – Saskatchewan’s Premier Winter Festival! February 15 – 21, 2021.

The Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Winter Staycation Brochure and download

The Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Winter Staycation Poster and download

Please feel free to share our Nutrien WinterShines 2021 engagement!

Check out our Nutrien WinterShines addition to the programming in 2021 on Eventbrite.

Please check the Tourism Saskatoon CommUNITY Commitment

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Use the UN Decade’s Visual Identity Make it your own

Spread the word about the UN Decade

Let’s Bring Back Forests

Let’s Green Our Cities

“The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. ” Wangari Maathai.

“Calm soul of all things, make it mine,
To feel amidst the City ‘s jar
That there abides a peace of thine
Men did not make and cannot mar. “
~Richard St. Barbe Baker

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.~ Wangari Maathai

“ If a nation saves its trees, the trees will save the nation. ” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

Saskatoon’s World Famous Conservationist: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the Man of the Trees EVENT

Poster8-5x11 What did Saskatoon’s Global Conservationist do? Who is Baba Wya Miti, loving father of trees? Where are the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas?

Paul Hanley, author and Robert White, ecologist will introduce Richard St. Barbe Baker, founder of the international Men of the Trees organisation in 1922, now known as the International Tree Foundation. Both knew this acclaimed “Man of the Trees” personally. He was a visionary pioneer who outspokenly campaigned for trees and forests and their multiple benefits – watershed protection, preventing soil erosion, mitigating climate change, providing habitats for animals and places for re-creation for humans. You will hear about his indefatigable drive, his daring accomplishments, his links to Saskatoon and his encounters with with President FDR, and with popes, prime ministers, and personalities of his time.

You will also learn about Baba Wya Miti and Chief Ironhorse. Where is the West Swale? George Genereux Urban Regional Park & Richard St. Barbe Baker Park Afforestation Areas are two amazing forest green spaces in Saskatoon, one named in the legacy of this great champion of trees. Find out where are they? Why are they? What is the West Swale? What is the Yorath Island Spillway?

Saskatoon’s best kept secrets are George Genereux Urban Regional park and Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area.

Sponsored by Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. Admision Free. Donations gratefully accepted. A part of Nutrien WinterShines.

Eventbrite Tickets (Event is Free Donations Gratefully Accepted.)

Facebook Event Page

poster Featured Speakers

Robert White, BSA, MES, Ecologist and personal acquaintance of Richard St. Barbe Baker winner of the Richard St. Barbe Baker award. Robert White, spoke to the City of Saskatoon Standing policy committee on planning, development, and community services about the great humanitarian, and forester, Richard St. Barbe Baker the namesake of the Richard St Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. Robert White spoke “to the importance of the preservation of the area and expressed support for some type of barriers to protect the area.”

Paul Hanley, author of the best selling book, Man of the Trees. Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist, foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales Introduction by Jane Goodall, who also personally knew Richard St. Barbe Baker

Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. will introduce Saskatoon’s best kept secrets, the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, and George Genereux Urban Regional Park. Both afforestation areas, and both preserved in perpetetuity in 1972 by City Council, and declared City of Saskatoon urban regional parks in 1979

Eventbrite Tickets (Event is Free Donations Gratefully Accepted.)

Facebook Event Page

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 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

Pinterest richardstbarbeb

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

Facebook: StBarbeBaker

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

Facebook: South West OLRA

Twitter: StBarbeBaker

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). 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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Payment Options

Membership : $20.00 CAD – yearly
Membership with donation : $20.00 CAD -monthly
Membership with donation : $50.00 CAD
Membership with donation : $100.00 CAD

1./ Learn.

2./ Experience

3./ Do Something: ^***

What was Richard St. Barbe Baker’s mission, that he imparted to the Watu Wa Miti, the very first forest scouts or forest guides? To protect the native forest, plant ten native trees each year, and take care of trees everywhere.

“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.”~Richard St. Barbe Baker

“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.

Wintershines Event

Sunday – Jan 28, 2018

Sunday 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Snow Fondo –

Man of the Trees Winter Fatbike Trail Network

To join in to this event and locate the Man of the Trees Winter Fatbike Trail, use these GPS coordinates 52.102628, -106.741664. Access is traveling north via the old Snow Dump Road west of the Civic Operations Centre (Bus Barns) to arrive at the afforestation area east of the South West off leash recreation area

SnowFondo 2018 Wintershines Festival Event

Bicycle in the snow

Fat Bike bicyling at the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

There are two courses at the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, an orange course race on a single track, and a purple course race twisting and curving around and about the trees.

As the Fatlanders Fat Tire Brigade “Fat Fun For Fine Folks” note, fatbikes have tires wider than those on a mountain bike which grip the snow. The city of Saskatoon offers trails which exceed 25 kilometers in length for cycling year round.

The signs are up posting where the Man of the Trees Winter Fatbike Trails are located in the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. The race ~ it is actually not a race but rather a big social ride ~ city only has race signs… the event takes place on both the east and west sides of the South West off leash recreation area.

An historical side note: the trail course is called “Man of the Trees Winter Fatbike Trail” as the “Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area Winter Fatbike Trail” becomes a mouthful. The “International Tree Foundation” began as the “Watu Wa Miti” a Kenyan word which roughly translated means “Men of the Trees” in English. Richard St. Barbe Baker initiated Forest Scouts who promised that “they would protect the native forest, plant ten native trees each year, and take care of trees everywhere,” and it was these Watu Wa Miti who were the very first forest scouts of the “Men of the Trees” international organization which later became known as the “International Tree Foundation”.

The Winter Fatbike group is very enthusiastic, and have always re-assured everyone, that any trails made in the City of Saskatoon Urban Regional Park for winter fat-bicycling are open to everyone, be they nature watchers, walkers, foresters, entymologists, phenologists, photographers, hikers, explorers, bird watchers, Shinrin-yoku enthusiasts, classrooms of students, artists or silviculurists [St Barbe was a forester known as a silviculturist], &c. as it is known that not all peoples bicycle for their particular sport or exercise, and not everyone can afford a Winter Fatbicycle. (That being said, winter bicycling is very enjoyable on a “Mountain Bicycle” if you have not made the commitment to embrace winter bicycling and have not yet made a purchase of a “Fatbike” and would like to give winter bicycling a whirl to see if you like it, try it on your “Mountain Bike.” For the upcoming “Snow Fondo” it may be wise to check with the organisers to see if the trails and “type of snow cover” is suitable for Mountain Bicycles on that particular day. Wear mitts, hats, scarf and boots, and layer the body. Fluffy mitts with an exterior windbreaker layer are especially nice. If weather is windy, wind pants to break the wind may be an option to keep thighs cozy~ski pants may be too, too warm. The actual exercise of bicycling does keep the interior of the body very, very toasty ~ hence layering with a back pack to capture excess jackets once the body is warm. With the extremities warm and cozy in mitts and boots which stay on the bicycle pedals, winter bicycling is very, very enjoyable, and not freezing cold as one may perhaps imagine.)

So perhaps ~ back to the history of the trails, if not the moniker ~ “Friends of the Trees Trails” ~ perhaps some other random, mutually inclusive name for both men and women and people of all backgrounds and all fitness levels to feel welcome to partake in green exercise on the trails in a city owned park ~ be it walking, snowshoeing, dancing, skiing, hopping, running, hiking, bicycling, &c. This may perhaps be figured out over the course of time as “Man of the Trees Winter Fatbike Trail” is very specific.

In delving into the history of the International Tree Foundation, Richard St. Barbe Baker issued an appeal in the year 1959 as saying “The time has come for our women, the creative element, to take their part in guiding nations. We of the Men of the Trees would welcome women volunteers from every part of the UK to form local branches. If women would like to Change Men of the Trees to Friends of the Trees, as founding member, I would welcome it”. Another name change was recorded when the The Guernsey Society of the Men of the Trees (GMOTT) voted on whether to adopt the moniker ‘Trees for Life’.” Perhaps in time, 2018 will catch up to 1959, and the sentiments of Richard St. Barbe Baker and the trails may perhaps become known as “Friends of the Trees Trails” or some other such name and welcome everyone.

Events to shake the frost off of your chin

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

Pinterest richardstbarbeb

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

Facebook: StBarbeBaker

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

Facebook: South West OLRA

Twitter: StBarbeBaker

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

Payment Options

Membership : $20.00 CAD – yearly
Membership with donation : $50.00 CAD
Membership with donation : $100.00 CAD

1./ Learn.

2./ Experience

3./ Do Something: ^***

“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

“We forget that we owe our existence to the presence of Trees. As far as forest cover goes, we have never been in such a vulnerable position as we are today. The only answer is to plant more Trees – to Plant Trees for Our Lives.” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker

“In the words of Henry van Dyke, America’s greatest tree poet,
‘He that planteth a tree is a servant of God;
He provideth a kindness for many generations
And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.’ ”

Richard St. Barbe Baker

“The glorious rich, colourful, quilted covering of trees and vegetation is not there merely to feed and please us, its presence is essential to earth as an organism. It is the first condition of all life. It is the skin of the earth.” ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker

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Wintershines Event

Sunday – Jan 28, 2018

Sunday 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Snow Fondo –

Man of the Trees Winter Fatbike Trail Network

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