The Urban Forest Master Plan involves the protection, planting, and management trees to create a diverse, resilient, and beautiful urban forest on public and private lands.
Qualicum Beach’s urban forest includes every tree in our town – on streets, in parks, public spaces and back yards. Our urban forest plays important environmental and social roles: it cleans the air, absorbs rainwater, provides bird habitat and improves our health and well-being.
The plan provides a vision to guide the document, drawn in part from the Town’s OCP Sustainability Plan. It proposes three goals that embody this vision of urban forests in the town:
- Conserve natural values and systems.
- Accommodate other private and public values.
- Manage risk in treed landscapes.