{"id":603759,"date":"2026-04-14T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603759\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:36:09","slug":"a-city-of-calgary-program-will-help-the-city-to-branch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603759\/","title":{"rendered":"A City of Calgary program will help the city to branch out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/trees-sjs.jpg\" alt=\"Trees in a backyard\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The City of Calgary is giving away 10,000 trees this year. Photo by Stephen Strand<\/p>\n<p>The City of Calgary has a program that will help the city to have a larger tree canopy.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Joiner, Urban Forestry Superintendent for Calgary Parks and Open Spaces, explains more about the Branching out tree program, which has been around since 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-1-final.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-1-final.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through this program, the City of Calgary is giving out 10,000 trees to Calgary residents, which is up from 5,000 trees last year.<\/p>\n<p>Joiner adds that through this program, they are hoping to expand the City\u2019s canopy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-2-final.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-2-final.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Joiner, they had consultants review what an achievable and beneficial tree canopy percentage for Calgary would be, which the City is implementing.<\/p>\n<p>Joiner says there are benefits to adding more trees in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-3-final.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-3-final.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each household is able to get two trees under this program, and there are 13 species of trees that are up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-4-final.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-4-final.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Calgary homeowner and want trees, Joiner explains how to register.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-5-final.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3141\/files\/2026\/04\/branching-out-clip-5-final.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this program and to register, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calgary.ca\/parks-rec-programs\/nature\/branching-out.html#dates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Calgary is giving away 10,000 trees this year. Photo by Stephen Strand The City of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[901,49,2798,48,4398,32918,5593],"class_list":{"0":"post-603759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-calgary","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-country-music","13":"tag-indigenous","14":"tag-south"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}