Cariboo Carbon Solutions has partnered with Forests Canada to help restore forests devastated by wildfire for private land owners and First Nation communities across B.C.
The organizations are expecting to plant 2.2 million trees over the next five years in communities across B.C., including Williams Lake, Princeton, West Kelowna, Kamloops and 100 Mile House.
“While fires are a natural part of our forested landscapes, the intensity and severity of them are starting to impact how quickly a forest can naturally recover," said Elizabeth Jarrett, chief operating officer with Forests Canada, in a press release. "This new partnership will enable us to support restoration efforts where nature needs a helping hand.”
The organizations planted 100,000 trees in the North Shuswap and Criss Creek this spring through their previous partnership in response to the 2023 Bush Creek East wildfire.
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“We feel this partnership with Forests Canada gives landowners hope and an ability to restore their land that they didn’t have before,” said Andrew Steeves, registered forest technologist and operations manager with Cariboo Carbon Solutions.
To learn more about the forest recovery support available for landowners, visit www.ForestsCanada.ca/PlantTrees to submit potential planting projects by Oct. 15.
Forests Canada is a non-profit charity that works to conserve, restore and grow Canada's forests to sustain life and communities and has supported the planting of over 50 million trees since 2007. While the costs for the projects it takes on vary, the organization's fundraising efforts help reduce costs for such projects, enabling more landowners to participate in wildfire reforestation. It receives government, corporate, foundation and individual donor funds.
Cariboo Carbon Solutions is a consulting company established in 2020, which manages and provides technical support for all phases of wildfire reforestation, ecological restoration and tree growing projects in B.C.
