Tree & Shrub Planting Project Guidelines

Funding and Technical Support Is Available

Cost-share Rate: 50%

Maximum Payment: $6,000

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Purpose:

To reduce soil erosion by retiring marginal or fragile agricultural lands, creating vegetative buffers along watercourses, or installing windbreaks.

Eligible Projects
• Reforestation of floodplains, marginal or fragile croplands, or groundwater recharge areas

• Planting buffer strips along watercourses, wetlands, or other water bodies

• Installing tree windbreaks to prevent wind erosion.

General Comments
• LSRCA forestry services are available for consultation, planting plan preparation, and the supply and planting of trees and shrubs.

• If LSRCA services are not utilized, it is recommended that a private consultant with RPF (Registered Professional Forester) designation be retained.

• If LSRCA services are not utilized, any approved funding will not be paid out until October of the year of tree establishment to ensure adequate survival.

• The participant is responsible for the care and maintenance of trees and shrubs.

• The use of tree shelters can improve results.

• Livestock must be excluded from the site (see Section 1.4).

• Applicants may be required to sign a 15 year agreement.

• All plant material is native and of local origin: see Seedling Species Available. and Hardwood Tree Species Available and Wildlife Shrub Species Available.

• Planting costs may be reduced if on a "priority planting area."

Project Details
• Contact LSRCA Staff at 905-895-1281.

Eligible Costs
• Site assessment and planting plan design

• Trees, shrubs and planting costs

• Establishment of cover crops on tilled land (in conjunction with tree planting).

Ineligible Costs
• Commercial stock, fruit trees or trees established for Christmas tree production

• Large stock (seedlings and bare root stock is preferred)

• machinery or equipment used by the applicant, family dependents or the applicant's business

• Taxes

For more information, please call (905) 895-1281

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Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority 120 Bayview Parkway, Box 282, Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 4X1 T: (905) 895-1281 F: (905) 853-5881 E-mail: info@lsrca.on.ca