After 18 months of work by a consultant, the City of Fredericton can now estimate how many trees it has in its urban core: 19,288. On Monday night, city council adopted a strategy for managing the urban forest on municipal land after commissioning Stantec Consulting in 2022 to come up with a 25-year management plan… “Fredericton is a leader in urban forestry with one of the most impressive and well-managed urban forests in Canada,” the report said… The consultant found that 44 per cent of urban Fredericton has tree canopy cover, while rural areas have almost 70 per cent cover… Stantec recommended increasing annual tree planting to 750 to 1,000 trees.