Throwing shade: How Medicine Hat is growing its urban forest
Hot, dry Medicine Hat, Alta., is providing free trees to residents and planting its own in parks and public spaces to "shoulder up" the urban canopy after years of drought and wind storms damaged trees in the southern Alberta city.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/urban-forest-trees-medicine-hat-9.7215758?cmp=rss

From #WellingboroughEcoGroup!

#UK - Garden For #Wildlife

"Gardening for wildlife is probably the easiest way to garden, and is possibly the best thing that you can do for animals. It’s also something that we can all do in our gardens, and if you have one, in our allotments too.

"There’s nothing that beats the sound of #BirdSong, the spectacle of #butterflies and #bees, and the thrill of meeting squirrels and hedgehogs. Between us, we have over a million acres of gardens; these are a rich mixture of #habitats that add up to the largest nature reserve in the country.

"If you can think of your garden as a sunny glade, set amongst the trees of an #UrbanForest, that’s filled with fruits and flowers; with a little encouragement, wildlife will come."

Learn more:
https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/how-to/garden-for-wildlife/

#SolarPunkSunday #GardeningForWildlife #Gardening #EcoHub #UrbanForests

Garden For Wildlife – Wellingborough Eco Group

"Any vegetational cover that you put in the city is going to have a positive effect, especially with heat. People have a place to gather or sit or meditate, or kids can go there and play."

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/20/nx-s1-5734482/urban-forests-miyawaki-climate-solution

#essay #climate #environment #UrbanForest #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange

🌀The decomposition of typhoon-generated #GgreenLitter and physiologically senesced litter exhibit divergent decomposition patterns across lawn and soil microhabitats🍃.

#TropicalCyclones | #UrbanForest | #EnvironmentalHeterogeneity | #LitterDecomposition | #SoilFauna

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf151

Mixed clouds over a nearby urban forest. More rain expected today; clearing up by evening.
Tomorrow's forecast is all sunshine. Perfect conditions for our galpals mini golf adventure 😊

#Wsanec #Saanich #UrbanForest #trees #skies #TreeCanopy #GarryOak #Spring #clouds #nature #Greenspaces #UrbanTrees #ecological #environment #forest #atmosphere #weather #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Cascadia #YYJ

Mission, Texas : The City That Hates Trees (JK)

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Kelowna shade trees cut down to make way for bike lanes

The report never once asks if there's a way to have cycle lanes AND have mature trees. There is, if you want to close that block off to cars and thus not have to widen the road to get a cycle lane in there that preserves driver space.

The report's comments are turned off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcDr32v4Cnc #BikeTooter #UrbanForest

Kelowna shade trees cut down to make way for bike lanes

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to be trimmed or even one or two getting razed as a preventative measure...but proper horticultural care has more importance than it has been assigned for some decades now). #UrbanForest #Climate

Right species for the right place is always key. And planting not just for the size of the immature tree, but the size and girth of the mature one.

I feel like if there were more interdisciplinary work between plant physiologists who specialize in tree roots, horticulturalists/arborists, and those who design streets/sidewalks/sewers, we could come up with a gallery design for sidewalks that allowed room to account for mature root size. Knowing how & where to irrigate also matters. #UrbanForest