Our organization did some tree planting work at Acadien Village Provincial Park this past September. This work was funded entirely by the One Tree Planted organization as the Project Sponsor.
This provincial park is located in northeast New Brunswick, roughly halfway between Bathurst and Caraquet. Here's an overview graphic, courtesy of Google Earth:
Acadien Village Provincial Park is a wonderful historical site, where visitors can see 200 years of history. The full Village is a tourism complex built around a 2.2km circuit bordered with historical buildings, all of which are inhabited by fully bilingual (Fr/En) guides who portray the daily lives of the Acadien people from 1770 to 1949. The site features a fully-operational 19th century hotel, restaurants, shops, and cultural activities, and it is open each year from June to late September.
A bit of the planned planting for this particular project involved planting tree seedlings in a few small open areas, where the staff wanted to turn some of the under-utilized mowed areas into future mature stands of trees. There were also a few unused larger fields which are also being converted to mature forest. Building these forests will be important for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation, and provides additional habitat for birds and wildlife. In the two previously-mowed areas, it also allows the Park to better manage their budget for grounds maintenance (controlling the costs related to mowing the grass). We also planted some trees in some of the thinner sections of semi-mature forest surrounding the site, to enhance the health of those areas. Basically, several goals aligned with the work that we carried out. The following graphic shows the approximate locations for the new seedlings:
In total, our planting team added 36,028 trees to the Park this year, completing all of the proposed planting areas!
Here are a few photos of the planting team in action:
This project went very smoothly. We were able to complete the planned planting on all of the targeted areas within this park. We 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 & Sylvain) for helping make this project work, and again want to thank the One Tree Planted 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 "Acadien Village Provincial Park" sub-folder.
If you'd like to learn more about Acadien Village Provincial Park, visit their web page:
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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!
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