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Feature Article April 29

Feature Article April 29, 2004

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Land O Lakes PS joins Trees for Peace

Grade 6, 7, and 8 students from Land O Lakes Public School braved the black flies last Thursday, May 4 to plant a thousand trees on the Ogilvie property on 13 Island Lake Road near Godfrey.

The students were participating in a program that began in 1998, when Irish and Canadian youth travelled together across Canada planting over 600,000 trees.Property owners can take advantage of the program to have trees planted on their property to prevent erosion, stabilize creek beds, provide windbreaks, and preserve animal habitats.

Kevin Hanson has been supervising the plantings since the Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Stewardship Councils took on the program. He visits each school in advance of the planting, and talks to the students about social justice and ecology. Kevin Hanson also visits landowners who want to have plantings done. He looks over the land and discusses which species would be appropriate for the land they are working with, whether they are Willow and Dogwood for the edges of wetlands, Spruce for hills, Cedars for hedgerows, etc.

The landowners pay 50 cents per tree; the students supply the labour and pay about $2 each for bussing; and the stewardship councils pay Kevin Hanson to run the program.

This month, 1,000 students from the Limestone and Algonquin Lakeshore boards will be planting 30,000 trees on 17 sites in Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Counties. For more information about Trees for Peace, contact Susan Moore at (613) 379-5958

With the participation of the Government of Canada