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[[File:Plaque marking a tree planted by St Barbe Baker in --Powerscourt--, --Enniskerry--, --Ireland-- 2013-08-27 21-54.jpg|thumbnail|Plaque marking a tree planted by St Barbe Baker in [[Powerscourt Estate|Powerscourt]], [[Enniskerry]], [[Ireland]]]]
'''Richard St. Barbe Baker''' {{postnom|country=GBR|OBE}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wordpress.com/post/stbarbebaker.wordpress.com/10161 |title=F.I.A.L., For.Dip.Cantab. |author=Adamson, Julia<!--Not stated--> |date= January 17, 2018|website=StBarbeBaker |publisher=Stewards of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area |access-date=January 18, 2018 |quote=}}</ref> (9 October 1889 – 9 June 1982) was an English forester, environmental activist and author, who contributed greatly to worldwide [[reforestation]] efforts. As a leader, he founded an organization, [[Men of the Trees]], still active today as the [[International Tree Foundation]], whose many chapters carry out reforestation internationally.
==Life and work==
===Early years===
He was born on 9 October 1889 in [[West End, Hampshire|West End]],<ref name="memorial">[http://www.westendlhs.hampshire.org.uk/barbe/index.html Memorial to Richard St.Barbe Baker] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814022943/http://www.westendlhs.hampshire.org.uk/barbe/index.html |date=14 August 2011 }} West End Local History Society - Local History, 28 March 2003</ref> [[Hampshire]], to John Richard St. Barbe Baker and Charlotte Purrott. He was brother of [[Thomas Guillaume St. Barbe Baker]]. Another brother James Scott St. Barbe Baker, followed Baker to Canada, applied for a neighbouring homestead and applied for work as in Electrical Engineering working on Saskatoon's early electrical streetcars until World War I
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| access-date =May 31, 2018 }}</ref>. He was descended from lines of farmers, parsons and evangelists, with the occasional adventurer amongst his forebears as well. As a very young child he was attracted to gardening and, since the family’s Beacon Hill home was surrounded by a wood, he began to explore the forest at a fairly early age. He became very adept at manual work and harboured a lifelong belief in its value.
St. Barbe Baker's father wanted him to enter the ministry, so at 13 he was sent to [[Dean Close School]], a boarding school in Cheltenham, where he became interested in the sciences of botany and forestry. A clergyman recently returned from [[Canada]] appealed to his religious heritage and suggested that the young man prepare himself for missionary work in the western region of that country.
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| access-date = }}</ref> around the area as well as to the University for classes. Working for a short while as a logger in the Prince Albert Lumber Camps he became convinced that the wanton waste of timber and agricultural practices (including the razing of the natural scrub trees) by European settlers were leading to deplorable soil degradation and potential aridity on Canada’s prairies. <ref name="Lumberjack">{{Citation▼
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