In September of 2023, Replant.ca Environmental was once again able to connect 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.
This project was designed and implemented under the direction of the One Tree Planted organization.
Fort Folly First Nation is one of nine Mi'kmaq First Nations (and it is one of fifteen First Nations in New Brunswick). Tantramar (formerly known as 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 some more seedlings to help accelerate the process of becoming a full forest again (to augment the work that we started in 2022).
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. We ended up adding young trees around many parts of the Medicine Trail.
We had done some initial work at Fort Folly in 2022. You can read this post to learn about our previous work that year. Our 2023 project allowed us to expand greatly upon our previous efforts.
Here are a few photos of our work at Fort Folly in 2023:
In total, we planted 15,628 seedlings in 2023. This was in addition to the 6,319 seedlings that we planted during the first phase of this project in 2022. 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:
We were very pleased to act as a supply partner to One Tree Planted 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 our work on this planting site by visiting our public Planting Photos folder on Dropbox. Go into the 2023 sub-folder, then 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!
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