Creek Restoration Tree Planting in the Elephant Hill Fire, British Columbia

Our organization performed some creek restoration work in central British Columbia this past August (2021).  The work was done in an area in central British Columbia, in the Kamloops region, in an area that had burned during the Elephant Fire in 2017.

 

The Elephant Fire was an enormous wildfire that occurred in central BC in 2017.  By the time it was finished, it burned 191,865 hectares.  For our readers that understand acres, that's just shy of half a million acres.

To put that into perspective, the average amount of ground in BC burned by wildfires each year between 2010 and 2016 was less than the size of this single fire.  Stanley Park in Vancouver is 405 hectares, so this fire was the size of 473 Stanley Parks.  New York City's Central Park is 341 hectares, so this fire was the size of 562 Central Parks.

Here's a graphic (courtesy of NASA) that shows the location of our project.  This satellite imagery was taken on August 22nd, 2017, while the fire was still active.  Note that North is not quite vertically oriented to the top of the map:

 

And for those of you who are unfamiliar with Clinton or Cache Creek, they're in south central BC (alongside Highway 97), as can be seen in this graphic from Google Earth:

 

Various governments, NGO's, and corporations have been working hard for the past few years to help reforest this wildfire.  That work will continue for a few more years, due to the sheer size of the burn.  Tens of millions of trees will have eventually been planted by all of the various entities combined.

A lot of the work done to date has been concentrated on land parcels that were already established within the provincial forestry GIS system.  Some of these areas were never-harvested Old Growth Management Areas, and some were previously-harvested forestry cutblocks.  However, because the Forest and Range Practices Act of British Columbia prohibits logging alongside creeks and within stream buffers, the areas that have been replanted to date often exclude those important strips.  Unfortunately, the wildfire did not respect the same boundaries.  We now have a situation where a lot of forest creeks and streams now have no tree coverage, which is bad because these watershed features are the most important parts of local ecosystems.

Our goal for 2021 was to target some of those creek buffers, to help restore the vegetation belt.  The areas that we worked in [to date] were almost exclusively pure conifer stands before the fire, so even though we planted thousands of trees on this project, we limited this phase of the project purely to conifers.  Although we love to plant deciduous species on many of our projects, we also need to mimic nature, which informed the final prescription.  The conifers will also provide better shade opportunities in the late winter and early spring, moderating the severity of the spring freshet.  In future phases, however, our goal is to include cottonwoods, trembling aspen, birch, and rocky mountain maples.  And luckily, these species are all starting to regenerate naturally too, which is very helpful to the local watersheds.

 

 

What is especially unfortunate is that as large as this fire was, it was only the third-largest fire in British Columbia in 2017.  The Hanceville Fire and the Plateau fire were both significantly larger.

If you'd like to learn more about the Elephant Hill fire, here are several media articles:

thenarwhal.ca/bc-forest-fires-restoration-secwepemc

www.coastmountainnews.com/news/rancher-helps-find-cattle-in-elephant-hill-fire

wildfiretoday.com/2017/07/31/elephant-hill-fire-in-british-columbia-grows-to-194000-acres

www.coastmountainnews.com/news/2017-elephant-hill-wildfire-most-likely-cause-by-smoking-materials

www.kamloopsthisweek.com/local-news/foi-documents-offer-closer-look-at-cause-of-elephant-hill-wildfire-4445360

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

 

Thanks for reading!

- Jonathan Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests.  We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases.  We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses and corporations around the world.  If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page.  Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!

To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website.  Thanks so much for your interest!

Incidentally, our organization is often seeking additional land for our carbon capture projects.  Please visit this link if you might know of a recently-harvested property that we could rebuild into a permanent legacy forest.

Tree Planting Project at Five Islands Provincial Park, Nova Scotia

Our organization did some more tree planting work at the Five Islands Provincial Park this past September (of 2021).  This work was funded by the Trees For Life organization.  You can learn more about them from their website:  www.treeforlife.ca

 

This provincial park is located in north central Nova Scotia, on the north side of the Minas Basin.  This is on the south side of the arm that connects most of mainland Nova Scotia with New Brunswick.  The town of Truro is about an hour to the east.  Here's an overview graphic of eastern Canada, courtesy of Google Earth, which shows the location of this park:

 

This project was put together to initiate afforestation on some open areas, and to repair some of the extensive damage done by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.  This storm battered central Nova Scotia quite strongly, and was the costliest storm in history when it came to damages to the provincial power grid.

Damages within the park were not as bad as in some of Nova Scotia's other provincial parks.  However, since there were open areas in the park from previous insect damage, this park was a prime candidate for the planting of some new seedlings.  When we offered to assist with this work, the park staff were very happy to accommodate.

The park foresters estimated that a series of openings along the sides of Camping Area B would be amenable to the addition of seedlings.  We decided that this project would be approached in multiple phases.  We would start by planting several thousand trees in the fall of 2020, and follow that up with a larger phase of planting in the fall of 2021.

 

Our first phase of work in 2020 got off to a great start, and was initially funded by public donations.  However, the project really began to have a major impact in 2021 with the support of the Trees For Life organization.  The support that we received from them funded the planting of 12,490 more trees in 2021!

The following graphic shows approximately where new seedlings have been added so far.  Some of the seedlings were planted in open areas where trees were lost to the hurricane, and others were scattered as an underplant under various sections of existing partial canopy:

 

To date, our species mix for this project has included a total of seven species.  We had five types of conifers (mostly red spruce, eastern white pine, and eastern hemlock, plus a handful of eastern larch and black spruce).  We also had four species of deciduous hardwoods (sugar maple, red oak, mountain ash, and yellow birch).

Here are a few photos of our team in action in 2021:

 

 

 

The second phase of planting on this project went very smoothly.  We're looking forward to returning next year to wrap up the final phase of the restoration work.  This project is getting very close to completion now, and the addition of a few more hardwood seedlings will finish this project in 2022.

We'd like to thank the staff at the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry for helping organize this project, and again to the Trees For Life organization for making this work possible.

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

If you'd like to learn more about the Five Island Provincial Park, visit their web page:

parks.novascotia.ca/park/five-islands

Thanks for reading!

- Jonathan Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests.  We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases.  We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses and corporations around the world.  If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page.  Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!

To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website.  Thanks so much for your interest!

Incidentally, our organization is often seeking additional land for our carbon capture projects.  Please visit this link if you might know of a recently-harvested property that we could rebuild into a permanent legacy forest.

 

Tree Planting Project in Blomidon Provincial Park, Nova Scotia

Our organization did some more tree planting work in Blomidon Provincial Park this past September (2021).  This work was funded by the Trees For Life organization.  You can learn more about them from their website at:  www.treesforlife.ca

This provincial park is located slightly west of central Nova Scotia, in a very picturesque part of the province.  It overlooks the waters of the Minas Basin, which is part of the Bay of Fundy.  The park is located just north of Canning, and just 20km from the town of Wolfville (home to Acadia University).  It overlooks the highest tides in the world.  Here's an overview graphic showing the location of the park:

 

 

This project was initiated in 2020 to repair some of the extensive damage done by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.  Dorian hit central Nova Scotia on September 7th, 2019.  Eighty percent of the residents of the province lost power, and in the aftermath, Dorian turned out to be tied for being the strongest hurricane in recorded history to have ever hit Atlantic Canada.  The destruction was widespread.

Damage within Blomidon Park was extensive.  The park staff did an excellent job of cleaning up the mess, but the open spaces that resulted invited some further restoration work.  We discussed our desire to assist with this work, and the park staff were very happy to accommodate.

The park foresters estimated that approximately five acres (two hectares) of the core camping area within the park had been hit the hardest.  In addition, there was another five acre section in front of the camping area that had been cleaned out several years earlier (due to an insect problem) and that area could also use more trees.  Beyond that, there were some other isolated areas that would also benefit from reforestation work.  We decided that this project would be approached in multiple phases.  We would start by planting several thousand seedlings in the fall of 2020, and follow that up with a second larger phase in the fall of 2021.

The first phase of the project was completed successfully in the fall of 2020, thanks to public donations.  However, the project really began to have a major impact in 2021 thanks to the support from the Trees For Life organization.  The support that we received from them this year funded the planting of 8,487 more trees in 2021.  Amazing.

 

During the planning phase in 2020, we were given some maps outlining the approximate area that the foresters recommended we focus upon.  For context, here is one of those maps:

This photo shows two areas highlighted in red.  The section on the left is the older area that was damaged by insects.  Some trees had been planted in that area several years ago, but the coverage was sporadic and there was certainly room for more.  The section circled in red on the right side of that photo shows the main camping area, prior to the devastation by the hurricane.

To date, our teams have planted a total of eight species in the park.  We've planted five types of conifers so far:  Red spruce, white spruce, eastern larch, white pine, and a handful of black spruce.  We've also planted three species of deciduous hardwoods:  red oak, sugar maple, and yellow birch.  Some of these trees were planted in open ground where the previous mature trees had been completely destroyed and removed.  Other seedlings were planted in partial understory adjacent to camp sites, which again had suffered some wind damage.  These young understory trees will help to ensure the long-term health of the stand surrounding the camp sites.  Incidentally, we'll be adding additional hardwood species to the project in the future.

In addition to prioritizing the camping areas, we've also planted part of the area that was damaged by insects several years ago.  That area has started to regenerate partially.  Some of the trees in that area had been planted, and others are the result of natural regeneration.  The trees and brush in this area were quite patchy.  In some parts, the trees were looking quite healthy and were taller than we were.

Here's a graphic showing all of the areas that we've worked in to date:

 

Here are a few photos of the team in action in the park:

 

 

 

The second phase of planting on this project went very smoothly.  We're looking forward to returning next fall to wrap up the final phase of the restoration work.  The project is getting close to completion now, and the addition of several more hardwood species will finish this project in 2022.

We'd like to thank the staff at the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry for helping organize this project, and again to the Trees For Life organization for making this work possible.

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

 

If you'd like to learn more about Blomidon Provincial Park, visit their website:

parks.novascotia.ca/park/blomidon

 

Thanks for reading!

Jonathan Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

 

Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests.  We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases.  We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses and corporations around the world.  If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page.  Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!

To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website.  Thanks so much for your interest!

Incidentally, our organization is often seeking additional land for our carbon capture projects.  Please visit this link if you might know of a recently-harvested property that we could rebuild into a permanent legacy forest.

 

Tree Planting Project in Caribou Provincial Park, Nova Scotia

Our organization did some more tree planting work in Caribou-Munroes Island Provincial Park this past September (of 2021).  This work was funded by the Trees For Life organization.  You can learn more about them from their website at:  www.treesforlife.ca

 

This provincial park is located on the north shore of Nova Scotia, near Pictou.  Here's an overview graphic of eastern Canada, courtesy of Google Earth, which shows the location of the park:

 

This project was put together to repair some of the extensive damage that happened in the park in 2019 due to Hurricane Dorian.

Here's an aerial photo of the park, taken before the hurricane:

 

The hurricane hit on September 7th, 2019.  Here's another aerial photo, taken after the hurricane:

Damage within the park was extensive.  The park staff did an excellent job of cleaning up the mess, but the open spaces then invited some restoration work.

In 2020, we discussed our desire to assist with this work, and the park staff were very happy to accommodate.  The park foresters estimated that approximately fifteen acres (six hectares) of the core camping area within the park had been hit the hardest, with lesser damages elsewhere.  We decided that this project would be approached in multiple phases.  We would plant several thousand trees in the fall of 2020, and follow that up with a second larger phase of planting in the fall of 2021.

We commenced our work that fall (2020), initially funded by public donations.  We certainly got off to a good start that year, planting almost five thousand seedlings.  However, we knew that more trees still needed to be added, and the project really began to have a major impact in 2021 with the support of the Trees For Life organization.  The support that we received from them funded the planting of 9,458 more trees in 2021!!

The following graphic shows approximately where new seedlings have been added so far.  Some of the seedlings were planted in open areas where trees were lost to the hurricane, and others were scattered as an underplant under various sections of existing partial canopy:

 

Our species mix to date for this project has included a total of ten species.  We've planted four types of conifers (red spruce, eastern white pine, eastern larch, and a handful of black spruce seedlings).  We've also planted six species of deciduous hardwoods to date (white birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple, mountain ash, and red oak).  When we return in 2022, we hope to have a few additional hardwood species that were not available to us in 2020 or 2021.  Our plan is to sprinkle those trees throughout the already-planted areas, to enhance the diversity.

Here's are a few photos from our work at Caribou in 2021:

 

 

  

 

The second phase of planting on this project went very smoothly.  We're looking forward to returning next year to wrap up the final phase of the restoration work.  The project is getting close to completion now, and the addition of a few more hardwood species will finish this project in 2022.

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

We'd like to thank the staff at the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry for helping organize this project, and again to the Trees For Life organization for making this work possible.

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

 

If you'd like to learn more about Caribou-Munroes Island Provincial Park, visit their website:

parks.novascotia.ca/park/caribou-munroes-island

Thanks for reading!

- Jonathan Clark 

www.replant-environmental.ca

Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests.  We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases.  We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses and corporations around the world.  If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page.  Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!

To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website.  Thanks so much for your interest!

Incidentally, our organization is often seeking additional land for our carbon capture projects.  Please visit this link if you might know of a recently-harvested property that we could rebuild into a permanent legacy forest.

 

Tree Planting Project in Victoria Park, Truro NS (2021)

Our organization did quite a bit of tree planting work in Truro's Victoria Park this past September (2021).  This work was funded by the One Tree Planted organization.  You can learn more about them from their website at:  www.onetreeplanted.org

 

Truro is located in central Nova Scotia, and is often referred to as "the hub of Nova Scotia."  From Truro, highways branch out in all directions to other points within the province.  Truro is a small town which has an official population of only about twelve thousand people, but when you count everyone within a fifteen minute drive of the town, the number is probably closer to fifty thousand.  That may not sound like much to anyone who lives elsewhere in a dense urban area.  But Truro also has something else rather special.  It has a municipal park, called Victoria Park.  And that park is over three thousand acres in size!  The people of Truro are extremely lucky to have access to such a large and beautiful park, located right inside the town limits.

But exactly how big is three thousand acres?  Well, to put it into perspective, New York City's famed Central Park is less than a thousand acres.  And Central Park has its own police precinct (the 22nd) which polices the 58km of pedestrian trails found there.  Victoria Park doesn't have its own precinct, but it definitely has an extensive trail network.

Here's an overview graphic of eastern Canada (courtesy of Google Earth), showing the location of Victoria Park:

When we originally contacted Victoria Park in 2020 to discuss the possibility of planting some trees there, we learned that there were several areas which could definitely benefit.  There were a few sections where trees had been removed after being killed by insects.  Also, the former municipal landfill (now decommissioned) was relatively barren.  Although some parts of the topsoil cap over the landfill had already been replanted several years ago by the Scouts and other organizations, there was still a great deal of work to be done.

We started our work within the park that year, initially funded by public donations.  We got off to a very good start to the project in 2020, planting approximately fifteen thousand trees.  However, the project really started to have a major impact in 2021 thanks to the strong support from One Tree Planted.

Our initial review in 2020 had indicated that there could be as many as fifty to sixty acres of open ground that were suitable for afforestation efforts.  That fall, we did our initial work around the trail heads up at the top of the park, for the first phase of what would obviously need to be a multi-year project.

The support that we received from One Tree Planted allowed us to more than double our impact in 2021, planting an additional 35,000 trees!!

The shaded areas in the graphic below illustrate the ground that was covered in the fall of 2021:

To date, we've been able to plant six types of conifers (red spruce, eastern white pine, black spruce, white spruce, Jack pine, and a small number of eastern larch) plus six deciduous species (white birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple, mountain ash, and red oak).

Phase Three of this project (in 2022) is intended to further increase the species diversity.  We plan to do some in-fill work, adding at least six more species of hardwoods to the areas that have already been planted.  In addition, we have additional areas that need to be tackled, including some work in the Gorge and other sensitive areas of the park that need to be fortified with additional young seedlings.

Here are a couple of photos from our work in 2021:

 

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

 

If you'd like to learn more about Truro's Victoria Park, visit their website:

www.victoriaparktruro.ca

Victoria Park is the #1 rated attraction in Truro, and has over fifteen hundred very positive reviews on Google.

Thanks for reading!

- Jonathan Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests.  We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases.  We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses and corporations around the world.  If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page.  Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!

To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website.  Thanks so much for your interest!

Incidentally, our organization is often seeking additional land for our carbon capture projects.  Please visit this link if you might know of a recently-harvested property that we could rebuild into a permanent legacy forest.

 

Tree Planting Project in PEI National Park at Greenwich

This fall, Replant.ca Environmental was part of a tree planting project in PEI National Park.  This park is spread across multiple locations in northern Prince Edward Island.  This work was made possible thanks to a sponsorship from the One Tree Planted organization.  Learn more about One Tree Planted at www.onetreeplanted.org

PEI National Park is absolutely beautiful.  And it's broken up into a series of different locations, as already noted.  There are three main regions:  Cavendish / North Rustico, Brackley / Dalvay, and Greenwich.  We were working in the Greenwich part of the Park.

Here's a graphic (courtesy of Google Earth) showing the location of the park.  The busier parts of the park are in the central area of PEI's north coast, while Greenwich is further to the east (but still on the north coast).

 

A lot of people visit PEI due to the beaches.  The province certainly has no shortage of beaches!  However, there are three specifically notable beaches that can be found within PEI National Park system:  Cavendish Beach, Brackley Beach, and Stanhope Beach (located within the Brackley region, just east of Brackley Beach).  These three beaches are special due to their Accessibility, with amenities designed for persons with limited mobility.  Learn more about them from the Visitor Guide that you'll find on this page:

www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/pe/pei-ipe/visit/guides

However, there's a lot more to the PEI National Park system than just beaches.  There are two main campgrounds (Cavendish Campground and Stanhope Campground, which have several hundred camping sites between them), and there are dozens of trails throughout the park system.  In addition, there are attractions such as Green Gables Heritage Place, Province House in Charlottetown, and the Skmaqn/Port-la-Joye/Fort Amherst National Historic Site.  Again, if you're looking for a travel destination, I highly recommend that you check out the Visitor Guide in the link above.

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian struck Atlantic Canada, and caused tens of millions of dollars in damages.  Countless numbers of mature trees were also blown down throughout the region.  Greenwich was hit hard, and a number of mature trees were destroyed. 

This planting work was not to be the first work in the PEI National Park system.  Some work was done in Cavendish in 2020.  Here are a couple of news articles about that earlier planting work, which was done by Park staff:

 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cavendish-campground-tree-planting-parks-canada-1.5762300

https://www.saltwire.com/prince-edward-island/news/post-dorian-restoration-in-cavendish-sees-1000-plus-trees-shrubs-planted-in-pei-national-park-509418/

 

Our goal for September of 2021 was to work through several of the areas that suffered hurricane damage, in order to scatter newly planted seedlings throughout the damaged stands.  This will enhance the long-term resilience of those stands.

The Replant.ca Environmental team planted several thousand young seedlings within the park.  A total of five species were planted:  Northern (red) oak, sugar maple, yellow birch, red maple, and eastern white pine.

Here are a few photos of the team in action in Greenwich:

 

 

  

As you can see in that third photo, some of the areas that we were planting were pretty challenging!  PEI National Park has a policy not to cut out or remove any trees, including blowdown, which we think is great.  Although it was a real challenge to work our way through some of those areas to add seedlings, the broken trees provide a tremendous amount of beneficial habitat to the wildlife in the area.

 

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

We'd like to thank Philip and Hailey and their staff for their hospitality and support with setting up this project, and while we were on site.  Prince Edward Islanders are incredibly welcoming, and we look forward to completing additional projects on PEI in 2022 and beyond!

Jonathan "Scooter" Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests.  We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases.  We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses and corporations around the world.  If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page.  Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!

To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website.  Thanks so much for your interest! 

Incidentally, our organization is often seeking additional land for our carbon capture projects.  Please visit this link if you might know of a recently-harvested property that we could rebuild into a permanent legacy forest.

 

Tree Planting Project in Terra Nova National Park (2021)

This summer (2021), Replant.ca Environmental was able to assist with some tree planting work in Terra Nova National Park.  Terra Nova is located on the east coast of Newfoundland, covering several of the inlets along Bonavista Bay.  If you're trying to drive there, it's just over an hour south of Gander International Airport, or slightly over two hours north of St. John's.  Think about the name.  Terra means "land" in Latin, and "Nova" means "new."  So basically, it's very close to being a Latin version of the name of the province.

Newfoundland officially became Canada's tenth province in 1949.  Up to that point, it was usually under colonial rule (with one twenty-six year period as a Dominion).  An interesting bit of trivia is that up until 1947, Newfoundland was still issuing its own coinage, obviously distinct from Canadian coins.  After Newfoundland joined Canada, it was only eight more years before Terra Nova was created, in 1957.  Terra Nova covers almost 400 square kilometers, so it's larger than most of Canada's provincial or municipal parks.

Newfoundland eventually became known as the province of Newfoundland & Labrador, after this name change was added to the Canadian constitution in 1981.

As noted by Wikipedia, Terra Nova protects the Eastern Island Boreal Forest natural region.  This region covers most of the island of Newfoundland (east of Deer Lake), and is characterized predominantly by black spruce trees, with pockets of balsam fir, white pine, mountain ash, tamarack, maple, and some other deciduous species.

Most of Terra Nova consists of rolling hills covered with forests.  Visitors will also discover exposed rock faces, bogs, ponds, and wetlands.  Here's a photo showing part of the park which is in the process of regenerating.  You can see some juvenile spruce among older trunks of dead trees, and a ground layer covered with moss and Labrador tea vegetation:

 

Here's a graphic (courtesy of Google Earth) showing the location of the park:

  

Terra Nova has two campgrounds at Newman Sound and Malady Head.  In addition, there are also tons of back-country camping options, accessible by hiking, kayaking, or canoeing.  If you'd like some further information about reserving camping sites, start here:

www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/nl/terranova/activ

 

Our Regional Director of [Newfoundland] Operations, John Moran, was able to send us a couple photos of the work done in TNNP in 2021:

 

This year (2021) was the first year that our organization did any work in this beautiful national park.  We hope and expect that we will be able to make further contributions in the future.  We're truly excited about this project, being one of our most unique and beautiful project sites to date!

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

We'd especially like to thank John Gosse (the Nature Legacy Ecologist) and his staff for their hospitality and support while we were on site.  We definitely look forward to returning in 2022 to continue any additional work that can be arranged.

Edit:  We were able to continue our work at Terra Nova in 2022.  If you'd like to learn more about that work, visit this link:

replant-environmental.blogspot.com/2023/02/tree-planting-at-terra-nova-national.html

Jonathan "Scooter" Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests.  We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases.  We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses and corporations around the world.  If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page.  Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!

To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website.  Thanks so much for your interest!

Incidentally, our organization is often seeking additional land for our carbon capture projects.  Please visit this link if you might know of a recently-harvested property that we could rebuild into a permanent legacy forest.