Scouts and St. Joe's renew tree planting agreement

Scouts Canada and St. Joseph Communications, one of Canada's leading private printing and magazine publishing firms have renewed an agreement for tree-planting for a further five years.

The collaboration, called Partners in Growth, first began in 1990 and, since then the Scouts, supported by the printing company, have planted over 2 million trees across Canada, covering 2,800 acres. For every ton of paper used on a customer's behalf,St. Joseph Communications facilitates the planting of three seedlings through Scouts Canada's Scoutrees program.

"Scouts have been reforesting our country since the 1920s and have planted over 85 million trees to date. Further, it is through our Scoutrees program that we provide our Scouting youth and adult volunteers with the hands-on opportunity to practice forestry, sustainable use of natural resources and the reclaiming of waste areas."

St. Joseph Communications is named under the agreement as the Exclusive Sponsor of its Scoutrees program. The company, in addition to being a major printer, publishes some of Canada's best known magazines including Toronto Life, Fashion magazine, Canadian Family, Wish,WHERE and Quill & Quire.