Tree Planting Project in Fundy Trail Provincial Park, New Brunswick (2025)

Our organization did some more tree planting work in the Fundy Trail Provincial Park this past September (2025).  This work was funded entirely by the Forests Canada organization as the Project Sponsor.

 

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 past 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. 

For our 2025 project, the majority of our work focused upon planting trees in a recent addition to the park's land base, a hundred-acre property in Cradle Brook that a previous private owner had logged, which the province managed to acquire to become part of the park.  These new trees will now be protected and allowed to grow in perpetuity.

We planted 90,445 more trees in Fundy Trail Provincial Park during the 2025 phase of our multi-year project to help improve the park! 

Here are a few photos of the planting team in action:

 

This project went very smoothly.  We expect to return in 2026 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 Forests Canada 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 "2025 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:

www.nbparks.ca/en/parks/35/fundy-trail-provincial-park

Thanks for reading!

- Jonathan Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

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.

 

  

 

 

Tree Planting Project at Parlee Beach Provincial Park, New Brunswick

This fall, Replant.ca Environmental started a long-term planting project at Parlee Beach Provincial Park.  This park is located in southeastern New Brunswick.  This work was made possible thanks to a sponsorship from the TreeEra organization.  Learn more about TreeEra at www.treeera.com

Parlee Beach Provincial Park is only a twenty minute drive from Moncton, just outside the town of Shediac.  If you've ever visited southeastern New Brunswick, you've probably visited Shediac, the home of the world's largest lobster (it's a statue).

The waters of the Northumberland Strait (which is part of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, between the mainland and PEI) are known for being some of the warmest Atlantic waters north of Virginia, and are very popular with tourists.  Parlee Beach is on this Strait (not too far from Murray Beach provincial park, which we also worked in).

 

Not surprisingly, Parlee Beach has a beautiful beach, and has been the host venue for a lot of big concerts over the past few decades, including Paul Simon, the Beach Boys, the Steve Millar Band, and Florida Georgia Line.  It also has almost 200 camp sites for visitors.  To make reservations, visit this link.

Here's a graphic (courtesy of Google Earth) showing the location of the park:

 

The September weather was beautiful when we were at the park.  But there was work to be done, so we couldn't let ourselves get distracted by the beach.  We prepared ourselves to start planting.

The Replant.ca Environmental team planted 2,500 young seedlings in the park in 2021.  A total of six species were planted.  Four of the species were conifers (white pine, red spruce, white spruce, and white cedar), and we also planted red oak and sugar maple.  This was the first phase of what we hope will be a multi-year program, and the number of hardwoods will be increased significantly in 2022 and 2023.

For 2021, we planted a large patch of open ground near the reception office, plus some fence line by the cabins where trees had recently been lost.  We also planted a number of trees by the volleyball courts, which will hopefully act as a wind break in the future and control some of the blowing sand.  Here are two overview graphics of the park that highlight the areas that received seedlings in the fall of 2021:

 Here are a few photos of some of the tree seedlings that we planted at Parlee Beach:

 

 

You can see more photos of our 2021 tree planting work in our public 2021 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox.

A group of Master students from the Environmental Sciences program at Université de Moncton were touring the park in the afternoon, and wanted talk to us briefly, to learn about our work.  That was a fun diversion!

We'd like to thank Michel (the Park Manager) and his staff for their hospitality and support while we were on site.  We definitely look forward to returning in 2022 to continue the work that TreeEra is making possible.

Jonathan "Scooter" Clark

www.replant-environmental.ca

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.