As part of their Climate Action Ripple Effect Wonderful Wetlands project, three students from W.L. Seaton Secondary School in Vernon made field trips to Pleasant Valley Wetland Heritage Park to study carbon sequestration in the more than 600 trees, shrubs and plants. They logged the age and species of each tree from observation and from information provided by BC Small Wetlands Association staff. The data was recorded on a spreadsheet containing formulae that calculated carbon sequestration by species and age.
Healing Forest Tree Planting and Ceremony
At a ceremony in Pleasant Valley Wetland Heritage Park on Friday September 29 2023, our fledgling “Healing Forest” will be dedicated to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of BC and the Missing Children of Kamloops industrial Residential School. This forest is part of a National Healing Forest network and incorporates 215 trees planted in…