Urban trees do more than beautify our streets—
they can transform community health and climate resilience.
➡️Join us for an engaging webinar featuring Martha Barwinsky, City Forester with the City of Winnipeg, as she shares insights from Winnipeg’s innovative equity-based Urban Forest Strategy. This session will explore how the city is working to expand and diversify its tree canopy while addressing climate change, extreme heat, and public health challenges. The strategy places a strong focus on increasing tree coverage in neighbourhoods with fewer trees and higher social vulnerability, ensuring the benefits of urban forests are shared more equitably across communities.
🌳Come and learn how to:
Use equity-focused data and mapping to identify neighbourhoods where expanding the urban tree canopy can have the greatest climate and health benefits.
Develop and implement an urban forest strategy that addresses extreme heat, climate resilience, and community well-being.
Engage communities and city departments to build a collaborative, long-term vision for a healthier and more equitable urban forest.
Intended Audience:
- Municipal staff working in public works, water management, sustainability, parks and recreations, or community services
- Staff working in public health
April 8th 2026 | 1pm-2pm (EDT)
TO REGISTER: CLICK HERE
Speaker
Martha Barwinsky, M.Sc., ISA Certified Arborist
Martha is the City Forester for the City of Winnipeg and is responsible for the management of Winnipeg’s urban forest. She has worked in the arboriculture and urban forestry industry for over 25 years wearing a variety of hats; as a researcher, instructor, practicing arborist, consultant, executive director of a non-profit urban forestry community organization, and urban forestry and Dutch elm disease operations supervisor for the City of Winnipeg.
This project is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund
and the Government of Canada.
