Tree Planting at the Fundy Trail Provincial Park, New Brunswick, 2024

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:

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, Skyline Trail (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)

This past Fall (2024), one of the Replant.ca Environmental teams finished up a small environmental reforestation project in Cape Breton, near Cheticamp.

This project took place on the north side of Cape Breton Island.  The goal for this project was to add some new native tree species to the area just east of the fenced area that surrounds the observation platform.  This area is subject to strong winds, and trees tend to grow very slowly here.  Adding seedlings of native species will help to kick-start the regeneration of the former forest.  Our role in this project was to be a service provider.  Parks Canada was the organization that planned and sponsored the project.

 

Here's a graphic (courtesy of Google Earth) showing the location of the Skyline Trail, which is a very well-known tourist attraction within Cape Breton Highlands National Park:

 

We also did a separate larger project within the Park this year (on North Mountain), and another small project on near Ingonish (the Mary Ann Falls bike trail).

Here are a few photos of the team in action at Skyline:

 

 

 

 

We planted a variety of native species in this patch of future forest:  Sugar maple, eastern white pine, eastern larch, white birch, green alder, and balsam fir.

 

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 "Skyline Trail" sub-folder.  Start here:

    www.replant-environmental.ca/photos

 

We'd like to thank Anne-Claude and her staff for their hospitality and support while we were on site, and to Parks Canada for putting together this proactive project.  It's a really enjoyable area to hike!

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, corporations, and NGO's 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! 

 

Tree Planting Project, Mary Ann Fall Road (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)

This past month (November 2024), Replant.ca Environmental finished up a small environmental restoration project in Cape Breton, near Ingonish.

This project took place on the east side of Cape Breton Island, just around the corner to the north of the Broad Cove Campground.  There used to be a rough gravel truck road that led up to the bridge by the Falls, but the Park has been using contractors to turn the area into a recreational trail for bikers and hikers.  The goal was to restore the old road to a more natural state, for the purpose of environmental restoration, and at the same time to provide additional public opportunities for outdoor recreation.  Our role in this project was to be a service provider, planting trees off to either side of the special compacted bike trail going up to the Fall.  Parks Canada was the organization that planned and sponsored this project.

 

Here's a graphic (courtesy of Google Earth) showing the location of the new bike trail, which is almost seven kilometers in length:

 

This trail falls within the confines of Cape Breton Highlands National Park.  We also did a separate larger project within the Park this year (on North Mountain), and another small project on the Skyline Trail.

Here are a few photos of the seedlings and of the team in action at Mary Ann Falls Road:

 

 

 

 

 

We planted a variety of species in the reclaimed sections beside the new bike trail:  Sugar maple, eastern white pine, eastern larch, white birch, black spruce, green alder, and balsam fir.

 

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 "Mary Ann Falls" sub-folder.  Start here:

    www.replant-environmental.ca/photos

 

We'd like to thank Anne-Claude and her staff for their hospitality and support while we were on site, and to Parks Canada for putting together this proactive project.  It's a really enjoyable area to hike or bike!

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, corporations, and NGO's 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! 

 

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 Fort Folly First Nation (2022)

In September of 2022,  Replant.ca Environmental connected 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.

 

Fort Folly First Nation is one of nine Mi'kmaq First Nations (and it is one of fifteen First Nations in New Brunswick).  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 several thousand seedlings to help accelerate the process of becoming a full forest again.

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.  So we ended up adding some trees around various parts of the Medicine Trail, and we will be finishing that work in the Fall of 2023.

Here are a few photos of our work at Fort Folly:

  

 

 

 

 

 

In total, we planted 6,319 seedlings.  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

 

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 "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!

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 Murray Beach Provincial Park (2021)

This Fall (2021), Replant.ca Environmental started a long-term planting project at Murray Beach Provincial Park.  This park is located in southeastern New Brunswick.  This work was made possible thanks to a sponsorship from the Trees For Life organization.  Learn more about Trees For Life at www.treesforlife.ca

Murray Beach Provincial Park is only a 45 minute drive from Moncton, on a very scenic route along part of New Brunswick's Acadian coast.  New Brunswick has a 750km drive called the "Acadian Coastal Drive," and Murray Beach Provincial Park is on this trail (Route 955), near the southern end of the trail, in Murray Corner.  The park is near the Little Shemogue River (pronounced Shim-o-Gui), and overlooks the Northumberland Strait.

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.  You can see the Northumberland Strait in the background of this photo:

 

Not surprisingly, Murray Beach has a beautiful beach, and the park also has over one hundred camping sites, plus eight cabins.  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.

Unfortunately, Murray Beach was hit by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.  Luckily, the damages were not as severe here as in many of the other parks in the region, but there was still a significant loss of mature trees.  Here's a graphic that zooms into part of the park, showing a before (left) and after (right) comparison.

The Replant.ca Environmental team planted 10,590 young seedlings in the park in 2021.  A total of ten species were planted.  Seven of the species were conifers (white pine, Jack pine, red spruce, white spruce, black spruce, eastern larch, and white cedar).  Three of the species were deciduous (red oak, yellow birch, and sugar maple).  This was the first phase of a multi-year program, and the number of hardwoods will be increased significantly in 2022 and 2023.  We plan to eventually provide more than seventeen different species (seven conifers and ten deciduous) to the park.

For 2021, we planted several patches of open ground, and we also planted a number of seedlings along the two thin lines that form either side of the Perimeter Trail corridor (this is a 6.0 kilometer walking trail within the park).  The three segments of the trail which have received seedlings so far account for about a quarter of the trail edges, so there is definitely more work to be done in 2022.  Here's an overview graphic of the park that highlights the areas that received seedlings in 2021:

 

Here are a few photos of the team in action at Murray Beach:

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

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 Trees For Life is making possible.

Edit:  For information about the follow-up phase to this planting, which took place at Murray Beach in 2022, visit this post:

replant-environmental.blogspot.com/2023/02/tree-planting-project-at-murray-beach.html

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.