In September of 2022, Replant.ca Environmental connected with the Mi'kmaq First Nation at Fort Folly. The Nation is located near Dorchester in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. This area, as well as the rest of what is now referred to as the Maritime provinces and parts of the Gaspé peninsula, are part of the Peace and Friendship region of Turtle Island. It was an honour and privilege to support reforestation on this land. It allowed us the opportunity to appreciate the unique role and relationship that Indigenous people have with the land, both historically and in the present time.
Fort Folly First Nation is one of nine Mi'kmaq First Nations (and it is one of fifteen First Nations in New Brunswick). Sackville, the central base of operations for Replant.ca Environmental, is also located very close to Fort Folly First Nation.
Fort Folly First Nation (FFFN) has an old decommissioned transmission corridor running through the Nation. NB Power does not use this line anymore, and the transmission towers have been removed. The Nation is hoping to return this strip of land to a mature forest ecosystem. There is some natural regeneration occurring along the corridor now that the utility has stopped doing vegetation encroachment prevention, but we added several thousand seedlings to help accelerate the process of becoming a full forest again.
The Nation also has a beautiful circular 3km Medicine Trail. We were privileged to walk the entirety of the trail, and to enjoy the time to reflect and meditate on the natural environment surrounding us. Some of the forest adjoining the trail is patchy and we were invited to augment those areas too. So we ended up adding some trees around various parts of the Medicine Trail, and we will be finishing that work in the Fall of 2023.
Here are a few photos of our work at Fort Folly:
In total, we planted 6,319 seedlings. Again, we want to thank the Nation for allowing us to help contribute to the land. You can learn more about Fort Folly First Nation by visiting this link:
You can see several dozen additional photos of our work on this planting site by visiting our public 2022 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox (go into the "Fort Folly First Nation" sub-folder).
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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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