KPU Surrey Forestry
January 2025 update.
Over the past winter holiday break, landscape contractors worked on-site within the central forest at our Surrey campus to prepare areas for tree replanting. This work followed the previous maintenance work completed last year to remove dead and unsafe trees from the area.
The clean-up work was scheduled during the semester break to mitigate noise and pedestrian disruptions to activity in the adjacent buildings.
This preparatory work clearing the space is intended to begin replanting of the area and meet municipal requirements for replanting as part of previous permitting for tree removal. Landscape contractors have removed invasive species and enhanced the soil conditions in the planting zones identified by a collaborative working group of Natural Space Advisory internal members as well as external partners. This group continues to meet to finalize tree species selection and initiate forest replanting in the first months of 2025. The team will also engage with ecologists and the City of Surrey as part of the planning.
As this rejuvenation work continues, further updates will be provided.
If you have any questions, please contact us at Facilities@kpu.ca.
August 2019 update.
In August 2019, Facilities Services commissioned BC Plant Healthcare, a professional arborist consultant, to perform an audit with a comprehensive tree inventory of the KPU Surrey forest.
The work was done in accordance with International Society of Arboriculture Best Management Practices for Tree Risk Assessment and ANSI A3002 Part 9: Tree Risk Assessment, and City of Surrey tree protection bylaw.
The arborist's report and recommendations form the basis of our tree management strategy and provides vital information regarding:
- Safety - what needs to come out?
- Wildlife habitat - what should stay as part of the natural environment?
- Research - what should stay to support educational outcomes?
Our tree management strategy will also help inform future natural space use, learning and research spaces, operational improvements, landscape redesigns and strategies for replanting aligned with the KPU2050 Campus Master Plan.