The Haldimand Stewardship Council is a group that shows a commitment to promoting responsible land care, sustaining resources, and working together for a healthier environment.  The council includes volunteer individuals who recognize and can encourage community involvement and interest in land stewardship.  Council members include farmers, woodlot owners, naturalists, business people, agency and industry representatives and other conservation groups.

 

Haldimand Stewardship Council

15 Cayuga Street, Cayuga

Denise Hart & Dan Romanoski

Love Trees?  Contact any of the dedicated stewards in your area.

Denise Hart of Haldimand Stewardship Council

www.hnstewardshipcouncils.org 

Greg Greer, Field Adviser with Trees Ontario ~ one of several guest speakers at PLANT TREES

Getting ready for PLANT TREES workshop are Stephan Prior, Chair of Land Care Niagara; Michelle Martin, LCN staff and Denise Hart, Resource Manager HNStewardship Council

Stephan Prior, Michelle Martin & Denise Hart

Country Roads

Appreciation Night ~ Haldimand Norfolk Stewardship Council at Ruthven Park

 

 

 

 

 

 Bass: Mike Arnold.  Lead:  Mike Downing. Baritone: Ross Gowan.  Tenor: Bill Werner

 

 

www.ruthvenpark.ca  

Turnbull Road

Haldimand Stewardship Council's discussion of Haldimand County's tree-planting policies continues.  There are various tree-planting programs in place that could be brought together.  The council is considering making a presentation to County Council.

"Starting in 1883, municipalities could pay farmers up to twenty-five cents for each roadside hardwood tree planted, on either side of the fence.  Careful positioning helped control erosion." LOOKING FOR OLD ONTARIO, 1997, Toronto University Press.

"We read in Canada Farmer's Sun* of the resident who cut down his line of non-productive forest trees.  The journalist urged others, as a compromise, to plant nut trees at the roadside.  Shade benefited church-goers, weary travelers, and sweaty kine [cows] on sultry August afternoons. It did not matter that such trees did not grow ramrod straight for the satisfaction of lumber merchants.  As for the romantics, the play of light and shadow through basswood or hemlock added immeasurable to the maturing landscape.  Wrote one, trees relieve the parched and dusty appearance of the country in summer, and break the dreary monotony of the winter landscape.
As the forest cover diminished, ground-level winds increased and blowing snow became a menace to winter travel.  Windswept the raised roadways clean in some places.  Newly erected rail fences disrupted the flow of air and caused deep drifts to accumulate elsewhere. Neither sleighs nor wagons could be used properly.

*7 Feb. 1893.

Trees of Canada

The Beautiful Hazelnut Tree ~ unfamiliar to many of us is highly valued for its fruit/nut.
A topic for research is the current use of imported hazelnuts in Ontario.  A member of The Haldimand Stewardship Council refers to the movement to plant hazelnut trees in Haldimand as a future supply for chocolate companies.

~ Native Trees of Canada, R. C. Hosie, 8th ed. does not list the hazelnut tree.
Photo taken Oct. 21, Simcoe, ON lbw.

Jeff Ronhaar of Jeff's Lawn Care/Mackenzie & Tim Mitchell Planting the 250,000th Tree.  Congratulations Mackenzie!

Haldimand Stewardship & Woodlot Owners Association

HALDIMAND STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL planted their 250,000th tree this summer.  The youngest tree-planter at the annual canoe festival was two-and-a-half year old Thomas Widdis of Kitchener.  Assisting were his grandmother, Colleen Armstrong of Brantford and his mom, Melissa Widdis. Great photos courtesy of Stewardship member Art Lyall.  Thank you, Art.

St. Williams Forestry Norfolk Today

"The phough is seldom put into the land before the third or fourth year, nor is it required; the general plan of cropping the first fallow with wheat or oats, and sowing grass-seeds with the grain to make pastures, renders the plough unnecessary till such time as the grass-lands require to be broken up.  This method is pursued by most settlers while they are clearing bush-lands; always chopping and burning enough to keep a regular succession of wheat and spring crops, while the former clearings are allowed to remain in grass." ~ Catharine Parr Traill (1802, 1899)

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/moodie-traill/027013-3000-e.html

"For myself, though I can easily enter into the feelings of the poet and the enthusiastic lover of the wild and the wonderful of historic lore, I can yet make myself very happy and contented in this country.  If its volume of history is yet a blank, that of Nature is open, and eloquently marked by the finger of God; and from its pages I can extract a thousand sources of amusement and interest when ever I take my walks in the forest or by the borders of the lakes."

~ The Backwoods of Canada Catharine Parr Traill Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1929.

Planting Trees

Haldimand Stewardship Council in partnership with The Woodlot Association in Haldimand planted their 250,000th tree during the canoe festival on Saturday.  A big thank you to this dedicated group of volunteer environmentalists for their untiring work making Haldimand a better place to live.
(Apologies to the gentleman who kindly posed for us.  We would like to identify him!)
Photo:  York ON, June 22. lbw

Cayuga Street, Cayuga, ON



St. Williams Conservation Reserve 

 Working partnerships with land owners and organizations such as stewardship councils, woodlot owners to make good decisions.

Photo:  Frank Sommer, Haldimand Stewardship Council, looking over graphics of forest species. lbw



Planting Trees on The Grand

Haldimand Norfolk Stewardship Council provides a forum to foster involvement and interest in land stewardship and promote responsible resource management.

"The vision is to bring community members together to promote resource stewardship on public and private lands."  The council formed several partner groups to ensure the success of various community projects.

www.hnstewardshipcouncils.org

John and I will tag along with the Stewardship on an outing Tuesday, June 11, and look forward to learning more about the work that these engaging folks are doing.

* Photo:  Day of 1000 Canoes

Planting for Today's Pleasure, Tomorrow's Posterity

Thought for Today ~

"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process."

~ A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989)  President of Yale University, Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Planting Trees for Posterity ~

KING'S ROAD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Among those participating in the first Arbor Day Tree Planting Ceremony at King's Road were the Burlington Mayor, Ward 1 Councillor, President of Landscape Ontario, the City Arborist and Haldimand Stewardship Council.

Students were provided with packets of native tree seeds to take home and plant.  The city of Burlington boasts 3,800 hectares of natural wooded areas. Each year another 1000 trees are planted.
(Photo:  Ward 1 Councillor, Rick Craven; Fiore, President of Landscape Ontario.  On right, Mayor Rick Goldring.  lbw)