Bronwyn Chester wrote a weekly column on trees for the Montreal Gazette. After writing numerous articles related to trees for the McGill Reporter, where she worked as associate editor, she created the first campus tree walk from which evolved her first tree publication, A Leafy Legacy:The Trees of McGill University [McGill-Queens University Press, 2009]. She gave numerous tree walks in Montreal parks and neighbourhoods. Bronwyn Chester died in Montreal in 2012.