Our organization did some more tree planting work in the Fundy Trail Provincial Park this past April and September. This work was funded entirely by the Beam Suntory organization as the Project Sponsor. Among other brands within their Canadian portfolio, Beam Suntory are the distillers of Alberta Pure Vodka.
Within this provincial park, the Fundy Trail Parkway is a 30 kilometer long drive , 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 started off as a not-for-profit and charitable park (not part of Fundy National Park) which was run by a skills-based board of directors, who were appointed for three-year terms by New Brunswick's Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage. The Parkway has recently been designated as one of New Brunswick's provincial parks.
Here's a graphic showing the approximate region where we were working:
The approximate GPS coordinates at the Info Centre (close to where our team 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 pits (which have been filled in) 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.
We had planted some of the gravel pits in 2022, and we continued work in other areas for this project in 2024. Altogether, our planting team added 31,446 more trees to the Parkway with the 2024 phase of the project!
Here are a few photos of the planting team in action:
This project went very smoothly. We expect to return in 2025 to add some additional seedlings in areas which are not yet complete. 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 & Osman) for helping make this project work, and again want to thank the Beam Suntory organization for being the sponsor that made this work possible.
You can see more photos of our tree planting work at this site by visiting our Planting Photos folder on Dropbox, then going into the "2024 Planting Photos" folder, then into the "Fundy Trail Parkway" sub-folder. Start here:
www.replant-environmental.ca/photos
If you'd like to learn more about the Fundy Trail Provincial Park, 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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