FOREVER TREES: The Story of ENVIRONMENTAL TREE PLANTING IN EASTERN CANADA

Tree planting is a gruelling job, and involves pushing a shovel into the ground, bending over and putting young trees into the dirt multiple thousand times a day, usually while living with your colleagues on muddy campsites for months on end. While most of the planting work is done in BC, for logging contracts, a small number of companies such as Replant.ca Environmental focus on reforestation and afforestation efforts on the East Coast. This project covers work being done in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, repopulating an area with tree loss due to moose overgrazing and historical tree illness. Alongside Parks Canada, and the forestry team at Clean Foundation, they are also preparing for oncoming climate change in the area by introducing a small number of warm weather species as part of this project, in order to address the human impact on the environment too.