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Next spring about 40 km of shelterbelts will be planted in Siksika Nation.
A First Nation in southern Alberta is bringing back an old innovation, with the hopes it’ll help them cope with climate change on the Prairies.

Project Forest, a new Alberta non-profit, is creating opportunities for businesses to help capture carbon and rewild local landscapes close to home.

An innovative reclamation process piloted at Nutrien’s Fort Saskatchewan facility uses phosphogypsum — a gypsum byproduct of the phosphate fertilizer industry – to create thriving forests.

The facility has planted 44,000 trees on 20 hectares of phosphogypsum to date.

Outside of work, Enverus’s Calgary office contributes both time and financial support to several local organizations, including Alzheimer Calgary, the Canadian Mental Health Association and Project Forest. Throughout the year — and across more than a dozen offices worldwide — employees vote on which charities they want the company to donate to and support.

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Keyera, Project Forest and Strathcona County will create a new forest in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland that will replenish ecologically degraded land, the partners announced in a news release this week.

The 95-acre Keyera Legacy Forest will be located in Strathcona County northeast of Fort Saskatchewan and will support community biodiversity to create a “green island” within the Heartland region.

It started on a cold morning, at a meeting neither Mike Toffan, nor I would ever forget. Unforgettable not only because he spilled a coffee on himself immediately prior to us meeting, but because I was compelled by the prospect of making a tangible impact with our watches. With a safely contained, fresh coffees later that year, we met and discussed ‘small things’ that an independent company like RZE can achieve.

Shell’s work with Doig River First Nation community in Canada is helping to reforest barren land 100km north of its Groundbirch natural gas operations which supply LNG Canada.

“At Project Forest, we thrive because companies like Shell choose to make a meaningful difference — supporting projects that restore nature and uplift people,” says Project Forest Executive Director Mike Toffan.

On Saturday, community members gathered at the site of former landfill to give it new life.

“We’re turning the land back to our natural state to what it was before a landfill site of the Ma Matow Sakow Healing Forest to start planting a forest that is a symbol of reconciliation and community.

The federal government is providing over $100 million to help return unproductive Alberta farmland to its original forested state.

Corey Hogan, parliamentary secretary to Canada’s natural resources minister, says the cash is part of the $3.2 billion “2 Billion Trees program” and the reforestation will help capture carbon and reduce greenhouse gases.

This Earth Day, Tacada is proud to continue growing our environmental impact through another year of partnership with Project Forest, this time as a Bronze Woodland Partner.

Together, we’re supporting the Ma Matow Sakow Healing Forest, a rewilding project in partnership with the City of Wetaskiwin. Ma Matow Sakow means “The Miracle Forest” in Nehiyawewin (the Cree language), and the project is guided by the wisdom of Elder Ivy Rain from the Louis Bull Tribe.

The project will plant over 115,000 seedlings of native trees, bushes, and shrubs into a flat area on DRFN lands, located approximately 60 kilometres northeast of Fort St. John.

While attendees of the ceremony looked on, DRFN councillor Justin Davis did the honours of digging out space for a cherry tree adjacent to the band office, something he called “the cherry on top” of the project.

IKEA Canada is excited to announce a new partnership with Project Forest, the Alberta-based non-profit, that will support the planting of new forests and rewilding of local landscapes, including First Nation communities.

“To ensure sustained life on earth, we have a responsibility to manage our forest ecosystems,” said Mike Toffan, Founder and Executive Direct, Project Forest.

Project Forest, an initiative aiming to reclaim Albertan landscapes, is set to begin its first project next summer as they plant 110,000 trees across 55 acres of land. Mike Toffan, founder of Project Forest, said the re-planted forest will absorb 18,150 metric tonnes of carbon over the next 150 years.

Members of Doig River First Nation (DRFN)’s council were joined alongside representatives of several energy companies and Project Forest for the groundbreaking of a rewilding project across 46 hectares on DRFN land.

The project will plant over 115,000 seedlings of native trees, bushes, and shrubs into a flat area on DRFN lands, located approximately 60 kilometres northeast of Fort St. John.

Blockchain technology firm GuildOne Inc. (GuildOne) is pleased to announce that the company has joined sustainability non-profit Project Forest as a Gold Plus Forestry Partner through its support for the Project Forest – Swan River Ecological Reconciliation project located within the territory of Swan River First Nation in northern Alberta.

Uniting Project Forest’s expertise in restoring natural biodiversity and the Swan River community’s deep knowledge of traditional horticulture.

The Government of Canada, together with Indigenous communities, private and non-profit sector leaders, and provincial partners, is taking action to regenerate Alberta’s forests — protecting clean air and preserving the province’s vast natural landscapes for generations to come.

IKEA Canada is excited to announce a new partnership with Project Forest, the Alberta-based non-profit, that will support the planting of new forests and rewilding of local landscapes, including First Nation communities.

“At IKEA Canada, we are committed to creating a better everyday life in local communities and contributing to a greener, fairer and more sustainable future,” said Melissa Barbosa, Country Sustainability Manager, IKEA Canada.

Trees have significant environmental benefits for our planet including absorbing CO2, helping regulate the local climate, producing oxygen, improving soil quality, and attracting wildlife.

That’s why Project Forest, a non-profit organization based in Alberta, focuses on rewilding local landscapes and converting under-utilized land or non-productive agriculture land to lush forest.

It’s been proven that forests capture carbon naturally—they literally suck. And one Alberta non-profit, run by a team of passionate silviculturists, wants to harness that power for good by creating opportunities to rewild local landscapes close to home.

“Forests are arguably the most cost-effective means of capturing atmospheric carbon,” says Mike Toffan, General Manager of Reclamation and Forestry for Tree Time Services and founder of Project Forest. “They clean the air and water, support animal habitat and provide us with a natural playground.”