Tree Planting Project at the Cormier Road Carbon Plantation (2022)

Here's a post to share some info about another carbon sequestration project.  The tree planting work on this site in southeastern New Brunswick was done in the fall of 2022.  The work was done at a site in Botsford Portage, to the east of Cormier Village.  This site is also very close to Route 15.  This project was designed and implemented under the direction of the Sustainable Resource Corporation.

 

This site was formerly owned privately by a third party, and that landowner harvested the wood a few years ago.  We were able to acquire the property after it was harvested, on behalf of our Client (SRC), then we designed a plan to turn it into a carbon capture plantation to help mitigate climate change.  SRC will never allow it to be harvested again.  Here's a map showing where the property is located, adjacent to Chemin Cormier (Cormier Road):

  

The GPS coordinates at the entrance to this site are:  46.18821, -64.25338

The primary purpose of this project was to support climate stability through carbon sequestration.  As a side benefit, this site will support biodiversity and wildlife habitat.

In total, the planting team added 32,086 coniferous seedlings on this site (three species).  In addition to our planted trees, this site already shows evidence of some natural regeneration of white birch, red maple, yellow birch, sugar maple, and balsam fir.  Diverse forests are healthy forests.

Here are a few more photos taken during the planting of this project, which took place in September and October of 2022.  As the site had been harvested almost three years ago, quite a lot of low-value brush was present, so this was a particularly challenging site for the planting team:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We look forward to studying this site in the coming years.  We will be doing periodic surveys to assess the carbon capture progress of the new forest.

We were very pleased to act as a supply partner to SRC on this project, doing the boots-on-the-ground tree planting work while they approved the project design and provided the financial support.

You can see several dozen additional photos of the work on this planting site by visiting our public 2022 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox (go into the "Cormier Road Carbon Plantation" sub-folder).

 

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.