The Green Legacy report to county council last month indicated there are many different residents who are planting trees in various places in Wellington County.
When it came to private landowners obtaining trees from the program, Centre Wellington had the largest number of individual planters – at 20. Those people planted 3,870 trees, with one landowner taking 600.
Guelph-Eramosa Township was second in the number of landowners, with 19, and planted 9,130. One planter there took 1,000 trees.
There were 15 private landowners in Erin accepting trees, and they planted 4,940 of them. One landowner took 1,000 trees, more than one-fifth of the town’s total.
Wellington North Township had only 13 people obtaining trees from the county program, but it led all municipalities in the number of trees private landowners planted. There were 12,210 trees provided to individuals there, with one landowner taking 10,000.
Puslinch Township had a dozen landowners take a total of 5,870 trees. One landowner took 3,000, and another got 1,500.
Mapleton Township took 4,790 trees, with one of the eight landowners there getting 2,800, and another 900.
Minto had one landowner take 200 trees.
All together, individual landowners planted 41,010 trees through the Green Legacy program.
Each municipality was offered 5,000 trees, and Centre Wellington, Erin, Puslinch, Guelph-Eramosa, and Mapleton each took that number, while Wellington North accepted 4,920, and Minto got 4,600. That brought the total municipal tree planting rate to 34,520.
The Green Legacy program also works with schools to do tree planting. Wellington North students planted 5,000, and Minto and Erin were runners up, with students there planting 3,000 each.
Guelph-Eramosa students planted 1,500, Mapleton students planted another 920 trees, and Centre Wellington students planted 350.
Guelph-Eramosa was the only municipality that planted with other groups, and that effort saw 5,000 more trees in the ground.
All told, municipalities across the county accepted 95,800 trees from the Green Legacy program in total.
As well, Conservation Authorities took large numbers:
– 8,790 for Halton;
– 6,100 for Credit Valley;
– 33,950 for Grand River.
After the trees were distributed to all those who requested them, the county then handed out 8,480 surplus trees. Another 7,500 were kept for potted stock.
The grand total of trees produced for the program this year was 160,620.
