by Brin Wilson

One of the first things that attracted me to BC was the tremendous range of trees as well as an abundant variety of them.

Personally, I love trees and there should be a law made by councils in towns and cities across the land to preserve trees on land, particularly crown land, but also some enactment to encourage people to grow trees wherever possible. The vast majority of the world is desert, whether cold or hot. There is a tremendous shortage of water worldwide and the loss of trees is a major reason for increasing deserts and aridity of land.

Coastal lands of the world are close to sources of water and the possibility is there for salt water to be converted to fresh by desalination. The rest of the problems can be taken care of through conservation and encouraging the growth of trees.

In parts of the prairies, wherever people have planted a windbreak, growth has been encouraged of both trees and bushes, thus increasing the water content in the soil.

Extreme conservation by large cities must be carried out as an increase of tree growth will indirectly neutralise industrial pollutants and reverse their effects.

It is up to us—we made the problem and we must also solve it.