If you’re a landowner who is interested in planting trees on your property, or a citizen who just wants to beautify your environment you should learn more about The Trees for Tomorrow Program. As part of the Manitoba government’s action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2012, the Trees for Tomorrow program is committed to planting over one million trees a year in Manitoba over the next four years – for a  total of five million over five years.

Trees for Tomorrow

Through the Trees for Tomorrow program, the province and its partners will plant
over one million trees every year for the next four years. It’s all part of part of Kyoto and Beyond — the province’s action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2012.

To deliver this program, the Province of Manitoba has partnered with the Manitoba Forestry Association (MFA) — a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to public education about trees and forests. The MFA will work with other organizations, partners and landowners to submit application forms, determine site eligibility, and coordinate tree planting.  As an educational organization the MFA will also be available to answer your tree planting and tree care questions.

What’s in it for you?

While the Trees for Tomorrow program is focused on planting trees to extract large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and reduce the levels of climate – changing greenhouse gases in the air, we also know that trees can reduce soil erosion, create wildlife habitat, enhance the beauty of property and even have health benefits for humans.

You provide the land. We’ll help with the rest.

If you’re a landowner who is interested in planting trees on your property, the Trees for Tomorrow program may be for you.

Depending on your parcel of land, and on the plan we develop with you, Trees for Tomorrow could provide you with a free program:

• including a site inspection,
• the development of a site plan,
• free seedlings,
• site preparation,
• overseeing the planting,
• tending the young trees, and…
• follow-up survival assessments.

Just want a few tree seedlings?

Watch for the Trees for Tomorrow display at various events throughout the
province to pick up your free tree seedlings (limit ten per person).

Forms

Please download an Application Form here and submit. Staff from Manitoba Conservation and The MFA will follow up and if you qualify develop a individual plan with you.   
Also available are a Frequently Asked Questions documents and a Brochure with more information and contact numbers.

Your growing solution to greenhouse gas emissions!