Tree Planting Project in Tantramar, New Brunswick (2024)

Here's a post about another carbon sequestration project that we recently completed on behalf of one of our Sponsor Partners.  The tree planting work on this site in southeastern New Brunswick was done in the Spring of 2024.  The work was done at a large site on the side of the TransCanada Highway, just west of Sackville.  The planting on this site was entirely sponsored by One Tree Planted.

 

This site was harvested about a decade and a half ago, by a third party, and our goal was to help rebuild a new forest there.  The site is large and easily accessible, and might be a great site for a public park in the future.  It is fairly close to Sackville's Beech Hill Park, which has some nice recreation trails, and trails on this site could complement those that are already built in the area.

As noted, although we hope to provide future opportunities for public recreation on this site, the primary initial purpose of this project was to support climate stability through carbon sequestration.  As a side benefit, this site will support biodiversity and wildlife habitat.  There were already some healthy trees growing on this site (mostly balsam fir, white spruce, American beech, trembling aspen, red maple, and white birch) so we were able to plant at fairly low density, adding only 33,750 more trees (mostly eastern white pine seedlings) into open areas on this 121.8 acre site.  Diverse forests are healthy forests, and eastern white pine is an especially appealing native tree when considering possible negative future climate change scenarios.

Here are a few more photos taken during the planting of this project, which took place in late April of 2024:
 

 

 

 

 

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 "Tantramar Rec Trails" sub-folder.  Start here:

    www.replant-environmental.ca/photos

 

We look forward to studying this site in the coming years.  We will be doing periodic surveys to assess the carbon capture progress of the new forest, and hope to start exploring the possibility of building recreational trails in 2027.

Again, a huge thanks to One Tree Planted, the sponsors and lead on this major project.

 

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 the Fundy Trail Parkway, New Brunswick (2022)

Edit:  The post on this page refers to work in Fundy Provincial Park in 2022.  To learn more about the subsequent 2024 phase of planting in this park, visit:

    www.replant-environmental.blogspot.com/2024/11/tree-planting-at-fundy-trail-provincial.html

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Our organization did some tree planting work in the Fundy Trail Parkway this past September (2022).  This work was funded entirely by the Trees For Life organization as the Project Sponsor.

 

The Fundy Trail Parkway is a 30 kilometer long drive through a 2500+ hectare park, 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 is a not-for-profit and charitable park (not part of Fundy National Park) run by a skills-based board of directors, who are appointed for three-year terms by New Brunswick's Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage.

Here's a graphic showing the approximate region where we were working:

 

The approximate GPS coordinates at the Info Centre (close to where we 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 leveled pits 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.  The following graphic shows the approximate locations for the new seedlings that we've planted so far:

 

Altogether, our planting team added 20,199 trees to the Parkway with this first phase of the project!  Some of the gravel pits were still in operation when we were planting, but we'll be able to revisit those additional areas in the future, as they get decommissioned.

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

 

 

 

This project went very smoothly, despite heavy rains when we were planting.  We were able to complete the planned planting on a significant number of the targeted areas within this park.  We are scheduled to complete the remainder of the openings in 2023 or 2024.  We also 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 & Devin) for helping make this project work, and again want to thank the Trees For Life 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 "Fundy Trail Parkway" sub-folder.

If you'd like to learn more about the Fundy Trail Parkway, visit their web page:

www.fundytrailparkway.com

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 the Hardy Veritree Carbon Plantation (2022)

Here's a post to share some info about another carbon sequestration project that we completed on behalf of one of our Sponsor Partners.  The tree planting work on this site in southeastern New Brunswick was done in the Fall of 2022.  The work was done at a large site just west of Hardy, which is on Route 16.  The planting on this site was entirely sponsored by Veritree.

 

This site was harvested relatively recently, by a third party, and our goal was to rebuild a new forest there.  The site is large, and this might be a great site for a public park in the future.  Here's a link showing the approximate location of this project:

 

Note that this site is NOT the same Timber River Demonstration Forest site that we have already been managing for approximately fifteen years, although it's very close to that site.  The GPS coordinates at the south end of this year's site are:  46.071211, -64.042194

The primary purpose of this project was to support climate stability through carbon sequestration.  As a side benefit, this site will support biodiversity and wildlife habitat.

In total, the planting team added 208,225 coniferous seedlings on this site (which covers 252.1 acres, with seven distinct open areas).  The site also shows significant evidence of natural regeneration of white birch, red maple, yellow birch, and other hardwoods and soft deciduous.  Diverse forests are healthy forests.

Here are a few more photos taken during the planting of this project, which took place in September and October of 2022:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We look forward to studying this site in the coming years.  We will be doing periodic surveys to assess the carbon capture progress of the new forest.

Again, a huge thanks to Veritree, the sponsors and lead on this major project.

You can see several dozen additional photos of the work on this planting site by visiting our public 2022 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox (go into the "Hardy Veritree Carbon Plantation" sub-folder).

 

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 the Shemogue Carbon Plantation (2022)

Here's a post to share some info about another of our carbon sequestration projects.  The tree planting work on this site in southeastern New Brunswick was done in the spring of 2022.  The work was done at a site slightly to the south of Route 15, a few kilometers from the village of Shemogue.  From this site, the Shemogue wind turbine is quite visible just to the northwest.

 

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 an environmental project to help mitigate climate change (we will never allow it to be harvested again).  Based on the site characteristics, we decided that this particular property should be part of our group of carbon capture plantations.

  

The GPS coordinates at the center of this site are:  46.16685, -64.22996

The primary purpose of this project was to support climate stability through carbon sequestration.  As a side benefit, this site will support biodiversity and wildlife habitat.

In total, the planting team added 74,800 coniferous seedlings on this site.  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 in April and May 2022:
 

 

 

 

 

We look forward to studying this site in the coming years.  We will be doing periodic surveys to assess the carbon capture progress of the new forest.

You can see several dozen additional photos of the work on this planting site by visiting our public 2022 Planting Photos folder on Dropbox (go into the "Shemogue Carbon Plantation" sub-folder).

 

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 the Luciphy East Bird Sanctuary (2022)

Here's a post to share some info about another one of our bird sanctuary projects.  Replant.ca Environmental did the tree planting work on this site in southeastern New Brunswick in September 2022.  The work was done at a site on the Luciphy Road.  The site is being turned into a bird sanctuary.  We call this the Luciphy East site because we also have a carbon sequestration project on Luciphy Road, just a bit further to the west.  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 nature reserve (we will never allow it to be harvested again).  Based on the site characteristics, we decided that this particular property should be part of our group of bird sanctuary sites.

    

The GPS coordinates at the front of this site are:  45.97729, -64.22022

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 39.0 acres); and (4) contains flowing water, which will attract and support a broader diversity of species.

In total, our team planted 24,558 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 three different dates during 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 "Luciphy East" sub-folder).

 

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 the Upper Aboushagan Bird Sanctuary (2022)

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).

 

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.

 

Volunteer Day at the Walker Road Demonstration Forest (2022)

Our team hosted a volunteer day on September 3rd, 2022.  A corporate group from Moncton participated.  This event was organized by One Tree Planted (if your corporation would like to do something similar, you should reach out to them).

 

The morning in question was beautiful weather.  Sunny and cool - a perfect day for planting trees.

The group of volunteers arrived between 8:00am and 8:30am.  We gathered everyone together at the main parking area, and started with a quick site safety meeting.  Immediately after that, we talked for quite a while about the site characteristics, the existing trees and plants that the volunteers would encounter, the seedlings that we would be planting, and the future plans for the site.  After that, we moved into the wooded area for a demonstration on how to plant.

Once everyone had seen a demonstration of the best techniques to plant the seedlings, we moved back to load up our buckets with trees, and to ensure that everyone had a planting shovel.  We then spread out into a large five acre area to plant the seedlings.

The majority of the trees that were planted were eastern white pine (Pinus strobus). 

 

The area that was planted was one that had been thinned significantly over the past few years.  The area originally contained a large number of unhealthy, rotten balsam fir.  This species tends to rot and die fairly early (40-50 years) instead of achieving true maturity, because the area is a bit too far to the southern edge of the range for that species.  We cleaned out a lot of the dead trees, and the goal was to replace them with trees that are most resilient in the face of expected future climate change.  Eastern white pine was a great species for that site, because there are very few of that type of tree on the site already, but the local ecology supports the growth of that tree.  Eastern white pine also grows to be very large at maturity, so it is an excellent choice in terms of carbon sequestration.  It is also a fairly shade tolerant tree, well-suited for growing up to augment the existing semi-mature forest cover.

Here are a few photos of the volunteers at work!

 

 

 

 

To see more photos from our various 2022 projects, visit our 2021 Planting Photos collection on Dropbox.

You can learn more about this particular planting site by visiting our Demonstration Forests page and finding the Walker Road Managed Forest.  Here's a drone overview of the site, taken in winter to better show the contrast.  The area that the volunteers covered is outlined in red.  You can see how the forest in that area is somewhat thin and in these areas, but our new trees will make it a lot healthier!

Altogether, our volunteers and Replant.ca Environmental mentoring team planted a total of three thousand trees that day.  Great work!  A big thanks to everyone who was involved.

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.