Start thinking about next year!
If you hope to have a successful Scoutrees project, it requires planning and coordination. Here are a few areas of consideration as you plan for the next Scoutrees season.

Where Are You Going to Plant?
Start looking around now for a landowner with a planting site. Provincial parks, conservation areas and municipal parks are very good sites, as well as Scout camps. Work with a provincial government agency, a regional or municipal department, or your own camp committee. Some groups plant on private lands or areas that have been given to companies as a woodlot to grow trees for harvest (e.g. for building materials or wood pulp). If you're planting on private lands, it's the responsibility of the landowner to get and pay for the trees. Check with your council, as these arrangements might already be in place.

Order Your Trees
Because government cutbacks have increased the demand for seedlings, some Scout groups have found themselves with fewer trees than they need. In some cases, they have had no trees at all. A few groups have even found they had to buy trees. If you want to avoid these problems, get your tree order in to the right people early. Sections/groups should tell their council office that they intend to participate, then estimate the number of participants. Typically, each member will plant at least 25 trees. A district with 150 planters will want to order 3,750 trees, minimum.

Get Your Scoutrees Materials
Scouts Canada provides each council the ability to order materials to help planning and PR aspects of the program. Materials include: council kit, clipart, appreciation certificates, and enough Scoutrees crests for each participating youth and adult.
Council Kit / Trousse du conseil

Scoutrees 101
February Leader Magazine 2007
Our environmental fundraiser article with ideas for celebrating our Centennial. Click here.

April Leader Magazine 2006
Scouters Yvan Veillette and Laura Landry lead you step by step in planning a successful tree planting day. Click here to find out more.

Planting trees but not fundraising?
Some sections/groups may find that they have sufficient income from Popcorn sales and prefer to take part in Scoutrees as an environmental project, without fundraising.