Plant Trees for Impact

Alberta's iconic landscape consists of the Rocky Mountains, boreal forests, and great lakes and rivers. Planting trees will preserve the area's beauty and impact the surrounding environment. Learn more With your help, we will: Protect wildlife habitat and increase biodiversity Restore essential watersheds for soil stability and erosion control Sequester carbon in the biomass of forests and stabilize the climate Overview Impact What You Get Tree Species Planting trees in Alberta is an effective method to restore the land and eventually return the area to a spruce-dominated mixed wood forest. Soil stability is an immediate ecological benefit of reforestation and the area provides enough light for a new forest to grow efficiently. Our Alberta project focuses on restoring riparian function and minimizing future bank slumping and erosion by re-establishing the riparian zone. To achieve these goals, live cuttings will be planted as riparian buffers that will include a combination of native riparian species. 🌲 As the forest regenerates, it will provide a critically important regional habitat (nesting, denning, foraging, and hunting) for furbearers, sensitive migratory songbirds, sensitive raptors and owls, sensitive amphibians, black bears, and ungulates (thermal and hiding cover for moose, elk, and deer). Our Alberta project will also provide jobs for people in the area, a better quality of air and water, and a recreational outdoor space and trapline territory for the citizens of Wabasca. A personalized tree certificate (see gallery) to say thanks for your donation. We'll also send you reports on our Alberta project, so you can track the impact your trees are having on the community and environment. We always plant a mix of diverse, native species from local nuseries. This project is working to replenish local forests, so the native species grown in the nurseries include black spruce, white spruce, tamarack, jack pine, red osier dogwood, balsam poplar, and mixed native willow species.