ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Parks Canada, Forest Protection, Glasses
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Check out mississauga. ca urban forestry page (we have 19% urban. Estimated 26. 6-28% tree canopy cover: 10. 2 million trees (60%) are on private property, 3. 5 million (34%) of trees are in parks and ravines, 0. 6 million (6%) of trees are on city streets. 2004-2012 planted almost 100,000 trees per year: there are at least 116 different tree species in the city. Urban forest provides the equivalent of more than . 2 million dollars in ecological services each year: reduce energy use from heating and cooling or residential buildings, air quality improvements, store 1. 1 million metric tonnes of carbon. Managed by parks canada: 1700 species of plants and animals, some of the rarest and best remaining wetlands, forests and agricultural lands in the gta. Ontario (city of toronto & city of markham) did not donate pledged land (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause their land (cid:449)ouldn"t (cid:271)e as prote(cid:272)ted (cid:271)y the federal go(cid:448)"t. Trees provide everything look around at the room you are sitting in:
