Our organization did some tree planting work in the Fundy Trail Parkway this past September. This work was funded entirely by the Trees For Life organization as the Project Sponsor.
The Fundy Trail Parkway is a 30 kilometer long drive through a 2500+ hectare park, hugging the coastal cliffs along southern New Brunswick. It has stunning views of the Bay of Fundy, and the area encompasses two separate UNESCO designated sites (the Fundy Biosphere Reserve and the Stanhammer Global GeoPark). The area is also home to the start of the "Fundy Footpath" hiking path, which is rated as one of the top fifty hiking trails in the world! Fundy National Park is very close.
The Parkway is a not-for-profit and charitable park (not part of Fundy National Park) run by a skills-based board of directors, who are appointed for three-year terms by New Brunswick's Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage.
Here's a graphic showing the approximate region where we were working:
The approximate GPS coordinates at the Info Centre (close to where we started) are: 45.490804, -65.308758
The Parkway was built very recently. Sections of it opened in 2020, and the remaining connector from Alma opened in June of 2022. A number of gravel and borrow pits were needed during the construction phase, and our work involved the remediation of several of these areas, adding trees so the leveled pits will be eventually be covered with forest again. In addition to the visual value of obscuring the landscape scars, there are also the obvious benefits of increasing carbon sequestration and providing additional habitat for birds and other animals. Basically, several goals aligned with the work that we carried out. The following graphic shows the approximate locations for the new seedlings that we've planted so far:
Altogether, our planting team added 20,199 trees to the Parkway with this first phase of the project! Some of the gravel pits were still in operation when we were planting, but we'll be able to revisit those additional areas in the future, as they get decommissioned.
Here are a few photos of the planting team in action:
This project went very smoothly, despite heavy rains when we were planting. We were able to complete the planned planting on a significant number of the targeted areas within this park. We are scheduled to complete the remainder of the openings in 2023 or 2024. We also expect to return at some point in the near future to add some additional hardwood seedlings to the same areas. Naturally, we will also be making regular visits back to monitor the long-term growth and health of the planted trees.
We'd like to thank the staff at NB Parks (especially Josh & Devin) for helping make this project work, and again want to thank the Trees For Life organization for being the sponsor that made this work possible.
You can see more photos of our 2022 tree planting work on this site by going to our public 2022 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox, then going into the "Fundy Trail Parkway" sub-folder.
If you'd like to learn more about the Fundy Trail Parkway, visit their web page:
Thanks for reading!
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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