Our organization did some environmental planting work in southeastern New Brunswick in September 2022. The work was done on the Upper Aboushagan road, and the site is being turned into a bird sanctuary. All funding and support for this project was provided by One Tree Planted, which is an amazing organization that fundraises and supports the planting of trees on a global scale.
This site was formerly owned privately by a third party, and that landowner harvested the wood recently. We were able to acquire the property after it was harvested, then designed a plan to turn it into a permanent nature reserve (we will never allow it to be harvested again in the future). Based on the site characteristics, we decided that this particular property should be part of our group of bird sanctuary sites.
The GPS coordinates of the front of this site are: 46.00661, -64.36474
The primary purpose of this project was to create and support biodiversity and wildlife habitat. A secondary purpose was to support climate stability through carbon sequestration.
This particular site was a prime opportunity to create another bird sanctuary, as it met all four of our main criteria for site selection: (1) Excellent access to the edge of the property on public roads; (2) Not a complete clear-cut, so there is existing mature nesting habitat; (3) Suitable "moderate" size of between 10 and 50 acres (this particular site is approximately 27.2 acres); and (4) contains flowing water, which will attract and support a broader diversity of species.
In total, our team planted 25,361 trees on this site, with the majority consisting of a mix of red spruce, eastern white pine, and white pine. Although the site already shows some evidence of natural regeneration of white birch, red maple, yellow birch, and other hardwoods, we plan to enhance the mix of deciduous species on this site in the near future, as availability permits. Diverse forests are healthy forests.
Here are a few more photos taken during the planting of this project, which took place on six different dates during August and September of 2022:
We look forward to watching this site grow over the next several years, and will eventually open it up for public access.
Again, many thanks to the wonderful team at One Tree Planted - without their funding and support, this project never would have happened!
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 "Upper Aboushagan" 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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