Project Promotes Green Township

• Improve soil/slope stability: planting native conifers increases slope stability and reduces soil erosion. Their root systems form an extensive underground structure that stabilizes slopes and retains soil run-off during storm events.
• Decrease sediment erosion.
• And retain wildlife trees: wildlife trees are an important aspect in an ecosystem and provide valuable shelter and nutrients for cavity wildlife such as woodpeckers and owls as decomposing trees are filled with insects and natural openings provide nesting habitat.
• Increase carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation: photosynthesis is the natural process of removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and converting it into sugar molecules and other carbon compounds required by the tree.

Oxygen (O2) is also released by photosynthesis into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the dominant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and a contributing factor in climate change. The removal and long term storage of carbon within trees through ecosystem restoration is an important element in mitigating climate change.

A trial CERI project will be implemented in the Aldergrove, Walnut Grove, Murrayville and Brookswood neighbourhoods, and restoration of municipal parks and conservation areas will occur in these green areas over the next few months.

ERA will supply, plant and maintain the newly restored areas.