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 Fort Folly First Nation (2023)

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:

https://fortfolly.ca/about-us

 

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.

 

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!