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The Hamilton resident has catalogued about 1,200 trees in the city as part of a research and arts project documenting trees older than the city — what she calls “monument trees.”. She lead a walking tour of 28 monument trees and provides photos of some of the trees on her website, as well as information about her research.
Nov 27, 2023 · Urban environmental artist Lesia Mokrycke has developed a database of trees in Hamilton that are older than the city itself. Lesia Mokrycke is telling the stories of the city’s old-growth trees. Hamilton is home to oak trees believed to be more than 300 years old, including some along the shoreline in Confederation Park. There are
Feb 12, 2024 · Some of the guests taking in the Trees Talking display. Mokrycke, a landscape architect has established a database of Hamilton’s old-growth trees, called monument trees, some more than 300 years of age that are the remnants of the Carolinian Forest that once covered Southern Ontario.
The tree planting season is coming to an end, and we are thrilled to announce that we have grown Hamilton’s urban forest in partnership with CityHousing Hamilton with 8 new native trees planted! Join us on a tour of our latest Hamilton Tree Equity project planting locations: Our first stop is at Sherwood Place, a…
Students at schools in the Hamilton area learn about the importance of urban tree cover and the benefits of trees, thanks to the volunteer members of Landscape Ontario who live and work in the community. For 34 years, members have supported tree planting at local schools in recognition of Arbor Day.
Battlefield National Historic Site is situated within one of Hamilton's many stream courses. Old streams and old trees benefit one another. They can often be found in the same environment. A series of old trees in a depression or sloped landscape condition may indicate that historic trees are tapping into a buried water system.
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Feb 28, 2014 · A comprehensive by-law was proposed in 2009 but never adopted. That proposal would have harmonized pre-amalgamation tree protection regulations and would have provided protection for individual trees and woodlands in both the urban and rural areas of the whole of the City of Hamilton. It was a solid by-law but it slipped away.
