Otonabee Conservation Offers Tree Seedling Sales Program
/Otonabee Conservation is encouraging landowners in the Otonabee Region Watershed to enhance their property and help to fight climate change by planting trees.
Each year, Otonabee Conservation offers a wide selection of native tree and shrub species for landowners to purchase. Orders can be placed online at otonabeeconservation.com.
“Trees play an important role in maintaining a healthy and resilient natural environment—planting more trees will help us fight climate change,” says Meredith Carter, Manager of the Watershed Management Program at Otonabee Conservation. “Last year, 89 landowners in our watershed purchased and planted 8,450 trees and shrubs through our Tree Seedling Sales Program. This will translate to approximately 2 million kg of sequestered Carbon over the lifetime of these trees!”
Meredith Carter, Manager of Watershed Management Programs at Otonabee Conservation, holds a bare root tree that was one of 4,500 trees planted at a watershed resident’s property in Otonabee South Monaghan Township last fall. (Photo courtesy Otonabee Conservation)