This fall, Replant.ca Environmental started a long-term planting project at Parlee Beach Provincial Park. This park is located in southeastern New Brunswick. This work was made possible thanks to a sponsorship from the TreeEra organization. Learn more about TreeEra at www.treeera.com
Parlee Beach Provincial Park is only a twenty minute drive from Moncton, just outside the town of Shediac. If you've ever visited southeastern New Brunswick, you've probably visited Shediac, the home of the world's largest lobster (it's a statue).
The waters of the Northumberland Strait (which is part of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, between the mainland and PEI) are known for being some of the warmest Atlantic waters north of Virginia, and are very popular with tourists. Parlee Beach is on this Strait (not too far from Murray Beach provincial park, which we also worked in).
Not surprisingly, Parlee Beach has a beautiful beach, and has been the host venue for a lot of big concerts over the past few decades, including Paul Simon, the Beach Boys, the Steve Millar Band, and Florida Georgia Line. It also has almost 200 camp sites for visitors. To make reservations, visit this link.
Here's a graphic (courtesy of Google Earth) showing the location of the park:
The September weather was beautiful when we were at the park. But there was work to be done, so we couldn't let ourselves get distracted by the beach. We prepared ourselves to start planting.
The Replant.ca Environmental team planted 2,500 young seedlings in the park in 2021. A total of six species were planted. Four of the species were conifers (white pine, red spruce, white spruce, and white cedar), and we also planted red oak and sugar maple. This was the first phase of what we hope will be a multi-year program, and the number of hardwoods will be increased significantly in 2022 and 2023.
For 2021, we planted a large patch of open ground near the reception office, plus some fence line by the cabins where trees had recently been lost. We also planted a number of trees by the volleyball courts, which will hopefully act as a wind break in the future and control some of the blowing sand. Here are two overview graphics of the park that highlight the areas that received seedlings in the fall of 2021:
Here are a few photos of some of the tree seedlings that we planted at Parlee Beach:
You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.
A group of Master students from the Environmental Sciences program at
Université de Moncton were touring the park in the afternoon, and wanted talk to us briefly, to learn about our work. That was a fun diversion!
We'd like to thank Michel (the Park Manager) and his staff for their hospitality and support while we were on site. We definitely look forward to returning in 2022 to continue the work that TreeEra is making possible.
Jonathan "Scooter" Clark
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.
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