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Shelterbelt Workshop
Come and Join us for a free Supper and some great Shelterbelt Information
When:
4pm Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Where:
Lone Pine Hall located 1 mile South on Rge. Rd. 274 off Hwy 582
With Guest Speakers:
Agro forestry Specialist - Don George
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Woodlot Agroforestry Specialist - Toso Bozic
Topics will include:
· How to establish a shelterbelt
· How to maintain existing shelterbelts
· Where to access trees for shelterbelts
To Register Call or Email:
Tree Seedlings for Landowners
| From the July 05, 2010 Issue of Agri-News |
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Would you like to have thousands of tree seedlings planted for free on your land? The Woodlot Association of Alberta is offering white spruce and lodgepole pine seedlings at 25 cents a piece planted for free by professional planters. This offer applies only to owners of private land in Alberta. The minimum number of seedlings to be planted per person is 1,000. They can be planted in fields or in understory. The planting will be done in mid-late July. This offer is made possible by a grant obtained through the Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta.
If you are interested, contact Louise Horstman at 780-939-5858 or Pieter Van der Schoot at 780-696-2436 or email
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Shelterbelt Tree Program
Information on Ordering Shelterbelt Trees
You may order free trees and shrub seedlings for field and farmstead shelterbelts, wildlife plantings and riparian buffers from PFRA
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The Shelterbelt centre has changed the land owner requirment from 39 acres to 5 ac (2ha). You are eligible for shelterbelt trees if you own more than 5 ac.
Eligible landowners include:
- Private landowners in the PFRA mandate region (SK, MB, AB and Peace River Region of British Columbia)
- where taxes are paid to a rural municipality,
- or where the land is zoned agricultural,
- and if the holdings exceed 2 hectares (5 acres) in size
- Public land managers
- of municipal, provincial or federal departments or authorities
- of land that has tax-exempt status or rights held by the Crown
- First Nations band councils or individuals
- for planting on reservation land
Private businesses including golf courses, resorts, campsites, or urban developers are not eligible for trees through the Prairie Shelterbelt Program.
Individuals owning property in urban municipalities (i.e. cities, towns) are not eligible
- PFRA charges no application fee and provides the trees at no charge. However, a delivery fee may be payable to the County.
- Seedlings may be ordered from June 1 until March 15 for next year with a May delivery.
For more information and tree applications please contact your local PFRA by clicking on the
link below or by phone at 403-340-4290.
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For more information or applications for next years order of shelterbelt trees you can contact the Kneehill County Agricultural Service Board.
Phone: 403-443-5541
Email:
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Links
PFRA Shelterbelt Center
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