{"id":44125,"date":"2017-03-20T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:40:56","slug":"brock-students-to-present-tree-planting-recommendations-to-niagara-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/03\/brock-students-to-present-tree-planting-recommendations-to-niagara-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock students to present tree-planting recommendations to Niagara Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting down a tree? Plant two to replace it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the recommendation from students in the Brock University Environmental Assessment class, which will be presenting its \u201cTwo-for-One Trees\u201d policy proposal to Niagara Region on Wednesday, March 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see tree planting as one of the easiest efforts we can undertake to combat the issue of global warming,\u201d says Alyssa Davis, Master\u2019s student in the Department of Earth Sciences who will be leading the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Davis will be highlighting the class\u2019s research on forest cover in the region and the country, Canada\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions and more details of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that each municipality within the\u00a0Niagara region will be inspired to act with this &#8220;Two-for-One Trees&#8221; policy on tree replacement, if they haven&#8217;t already done so,\u201d says Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Among the reasons the Environmental Assessment students give for why Niagara\u2019s 12 municipalities would want to come on board:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trees remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Too much carbon dioxide \u2014 mostly from human activities \u2014 is a key contributor to global warming. Increasing the number of trees will take some of this carbon dioxide out of circulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trees add to the aesthetics of a place. Research has shown that quality of life improves with exposure to natural environments and green spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trees make excellent snow fences, wind breakers and other barriers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe were thinking that the Region and its municipalities would be in the perfect position to introduce the planning policy because they\u2019re in charge of maintaining roadways, parks and other public land,\u201d says Kristen Shaver, also a Department of Earth Sciences Master\u2019s student.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the meeting Wednesday will be the class\u2019s supervisor, Professor of Earth Sciences Uwe Brand, who came up with the idea for the research project after noticing a lack of trees on his daily commute to Brock.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will take place at the Planning and Development Committee meeting Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the council chambers at Niagara Region Headquarters in Thorold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting down a tree? Plant two to replace it. That\u2019s the recommendation from students in the Brock University Environmental Assessment class, which will be presenting its \u201cTwo-for-One Trees\u201d policy proposal to Niagara Region on Wednesday, March 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":44126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,55,41,1,4,5],"tags":[150,5065,617,4309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}