Our Projects:
We are currently working with municipal government on Living Snow Fences and tax incentives for forested properties
Living Snow Fences
Living snow fences are strategically planted rows of shrubs and/or trees that help reduce drifting and blowing snow.
We worked with the City of Ottawa and conservation authorities to devise a pilot program to establish these natural windbreaks along key transportation corridors.
Applications are currently being accepted for the program and interested landowners can contact Rideau Valley Conservation Authority for more information:
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Tax incentive/reduction for forested land​
Forests provide an immense environmental and health benefit to all.
In most cases there is little or no financial benefit to the landowner for preserving trees and woodlands. We believe that providing incentives for landowners to retain their woodlands is good public policy.
Rotary Club of Ottawa-Stittsville
donates to Rural Woodlands forest initiative!
On a blustery day in November the Rotary Club of Ottawa-Stittsville presented a cheque for $750 to Rural Woodlands Ottawa at the site of a new tree-planting and pollinator field to be established behind the Client Services centre on Roger Stevens Drive.
The site is an unused grass lawn, kept mown by the city, but ideal for a small forest and native-species meadow near Stevens Creek. Plans are for a path through the naturalized area with informative, educational signs.
