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Area scouts are greening up Laurier Woods

Nipissing Area Scouts Canada News Release ********************* Youth with Nipissing Area Scouts Canada will mark the 38th annual Scoutrees event, 9 a.m.
Nipissing Area Scouts Canada
News Release

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Youth with Nipissing Area Scouts Canada will mark the 38th annual Scoutrees event, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday May 8, by planting trees and shrubs in North Bay’s Laurier Woods Conservation Area.

Nipissing Area Beavers (aged 5 to 7), Cubs (8 to 10), Scouts (11 to 14) and Venturers (14 to 17), in partnership with the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority and the City of North Bay, will plant 400 red maple trees, and another 100 shrubs in the 50-hectare wetlands park.

“The Scouts are making a significant contribution to the environmental stewardship of our Conservation Area. The trees and shrubs will provide a buffer for the pond protecting and improving the water quality and habitat. We thank and congratulate the Scouts and their leaders for their work and the City for providing the trees,” said Brian Tayler, General Manager of the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority.

“This event marks the first time in recent memory that our youth will be planting trees within North Bay’s urban setting,” said Scouter Bernie Stockermans, Scoutrees Co-ordinator. “It is also the first time they will be planting larger (four-foot) hardwood trees.”

“We’re pleased to demonstrate to our friends and neighbours what Scouting youth have been doing in rural settings for decades,” said Stockermans. “They’ll be able to see and enjoy this year’s effort almost immediately and for years to come.”

Expanding our Youth’s Knowledge of Themselves, The Outdoors, and Our Country Expanding our Youth’s Knowledge of Themselves, The Outdoors, and Our Country

The last time Scoutrees was held in the city in 2005, the youth planted several thousand spruce seedlings in a rural area north of Jack Garland Airport. The past two years Nipissing Scouting youth planted about 5,000 pine seedlings in an area near Trout Creek.

More than 100 youth and adult leaders are expected to participate in this year’s Scoutrees event, beginning in shifts at 9 a.m., near the entrance to Laurier Woods at the end of Brule Street, by the city’s public works yard.
For more than 30 years, Nipissing Area youth have planted tens of thousands of trees in Nipissing and Parry Sound Districts as part of Scouts Canada’s Scoutrees campaign, a national program designed to give all youth members the opportunity to demonstrate, through action, their concern for the environment.

Scoutrees is also a fundraising project to support Scouting in Nipissing and international Scout programs in Third World countries.

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