Trees Riverview posts information and updates here and on the Riverview Community Centre Blog. See current and past posts for our work in the community and useful information about trees in our city and neighbourhood.
Home Grown Grant helps Trees Riverview Catch up on Canopy Gaps
Thanks to the City of Winnipeg’s Home Grown Grant program, TR planted 30 new boulevard trees on Oakwood, Baltimore, Ashland and Balfour Avenues near Osborne St.
Experts provide valuable info on riverbank health
Planting and protecting trees and other natural vegetation are important steps towards maintaining healthy riverbanks in our community. And while we’re losing trees along the Red River there are also positive steps being taken to enhance these riparian areas.
City Budget Supports Urban Forest Strategy
Winnipeg City Council has almost unanimously passed its 2024-27 budget that includes significant new funding for Winnipeg’s urban forest.
How to plant a tree
Volunteers at the Friends of Fisher Park fall clean up on September 30 had a great opportunity to learn how to plant and tend a tree to ensure best chance for survival.
Tree Inoculation in Fisher Park
Green Drop employee Nate Edroff demonstrates fungicide inoculation of a healthy elm in Fisher Park, on September 14. Approved fungicides have a good track record of preventing Dutch Elm Disease in a healthy tree for up to 3 years.
Celebrating the 2022 project funders
Trees Riverview celebrates the funders who supported our mission of tree planting and public education in 2022 in the Riverview neighbourhood of Winnipeg.
Trees Riverview reflects on 2022 accomplishments
As the trees awaken after their winter rest and Riverview moves from winter white to spring green, we at Trees Riverview are grateful for a community that cares about sustaining and growing our urban forest.
Trees Riverview welcomes 44 new trees
Trees Riverview has completed a second successful planting season with 44 trees added to our community’s boulevards and public spaces.
Urban Forest Strategy & Tree Wrapping Event
Hot off the presses! The City of Winnipeg has released a draft of its first comprehensive forest strategy.
Commemorative Trees Planted in Fisher Park
Sisters Anne (Babe) Bowman and Jean Affleck were fixtures of Fisher Street for decades …
State of the Urban Forest
In case you missed it, the City of Winnipeg released a State of the Urban Forest report in April 2021 that gave our city a “fair” grade.
New Funding and a Year in Review for Trees Riverview
Just as the newly planted trees on Baltimore Road and Arnold Avenue are slowly putting down roots in our community, so too is Trees Riverview.
TR, City, Commemorative Tree Planting & Beaver Update
Spring is always a time of new life as plants unfurl and trees leaf out in multiple shades of green.
ACU grant supports tree planting in Riverview
Trees Riverview is pleased to announce that Assiniboine Credit Union (ACU) has donated $12,500 to help re-green our community.
New community group, Trees Riverview, launched to support tree-planting in Riverview
The splashes of orange, yellow and reds on our trees that mark autumn’s arrival are a beautiful splash of colour before winter’s white descends on use.