{"id":2073,"date":"2007-07-10T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:52:47","slug":"toronto-tree-tours-launch-this-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/10\/toronto-tree-tours-launch-this-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tree Tours launch Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1369\/733400557_51e48c69cf_o.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an urban environment, trees face many pressures to grow and survive. If we&#8217;re going to double the canopy cover in this city, understanding the challenges Toronto&#8217;s trees face and the benefits they provide is essential. But trees are more than just pleasant providers of shade that help suck up the city&#8217;s smog. Like heritage sites, they are links to our city&#8217;s past, full of stories belonging to the neigbourhoods in which they grow.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s head of urban forestry has said it could take between 50 to 100 years to double our city&#8217;s tree canopy cover. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered why, you should consider joining<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaftoronto.org\/\"> LEAF<\/a> on a tree tour this summer. <strong>Tuesday July, 10<\/strong>, LEAF, in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicspace.ca\/\">Toronto Public Space Committee<\/a>, will be launching their tours and a brand new website, featuring photos, maps and write ups of every tour they give. <strong>The festivities will begin with finger foods and refreshments at  6:00pm at St. Christopher House (at Ossington and Dundas), followed by a tour through Trinity Bellwoods Park lead by arborist about town Todd Irvine project coordinator Liz Forsberg, and Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone.<\/strong> (Todd also happens to be Spacing&#8217;s green space columnist and one of the magazine&#8217;s founding members.) Paula Fletcher and MPP Rosario Marchese will also be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the Toronto Tree Tours, <em>Spacing<\/em> will be posting a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tree of the Week\u00e2\u20ac\u009d every week over the course of the summer. Each tree will be selected from one of the many tours offered by LEAF.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Toronto Tree Tours project, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaftoronto.org\/toronto_tree_tours\">LEAF&#8217;s website.<\/a> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treetours.to\/\">Toronto Tree Tours<\/a> site will go live on Tuesday. The Trinity Bellwoods tour features photographs by renowned photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo (above). An illustrated map of every tour will be created by Marlena Zuber (below).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1123\/733384331_e56bf2a05c_o.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an urban environment, trees face many pressures to grow and survive. If we&#8217;re going to double the canopy cover in this city, understanding the challenges Toronto&#8217;s trees face and the benefits they provide is essential. But trees are more than just pleasant providers of shade that help suck up the city&#8217;s smog. Like heritage<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/10\/toronto-tree-tours-launch-this-tuesday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Toronto Tree Tours launch Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,18,20],"tags":[3949,23,2210,6209,1103,6208,867,656,41,6211,36,6206,19,6205,5605,6210,6207],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","category-media","category-neighbourhoods","category-urban-design","tag-deputy-mayor","tag-environment","tag-green-space-columnist","tag-head-of-urban-forestry","tag-joe-pantalone","tag-liz-forsberg","tag-marlena-zuber","tag-paula-fletcher","tag-psychogeography","tag-renowned-photographer","tag-resources","tag-rosario-marchese","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-public","tag-toronto-tree-tours","tag-town-todd-irvine-project-coordinator","tag-vincenzo-pietropaolo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto Tree Tours launch Today - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/10\/toronto-tree-tours-launch-this-tuesday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toronto Tree Tours launch Today - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In an urban environment, trees face many pressures to grow and survive. 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