{"id":15814,"date":"2025-07-22T16:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15814\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:17:18","slug":"unproductive-alberta-farmland-to-be-converted-back-to-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15814\/","title":{"rendered":"Unproductive Alberta farmland to be converted back to forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Bill Graveland<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted July 21, 2025 5:09 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated July 21, 2025 5:11 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is providing over $100 million to help return unproductive Alberta farmland to its original forested state.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corey Hogan, parliamentary secretary to Canada\u2019s natural resources minister, says the cash is part of the $3.2 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/2-billion-trees-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2 Billion Trees program<\/a> and the reforestation will help capture carbon and reduce greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to support provinces, territories and third-party organizations in planting two billion trees across Canada by 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan says cleared farmland will be turned back into thriving forests, providing employment to Indigenous women and youth, and providing economic benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Canada falling short of pledge to plant 2 billion trees by 2030: audit'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/230420-DAVID.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:49<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada falling short of pledge to plant 2 billion trees by 2030: audit\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11296404\/missing-canadian-girl-death-new-york-state\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753201037_316_frattons.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMontreal dad facing murder charge after 9-year-old daughter found dead in New York\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11292901\/business-sentiment-bank-of-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753201038_825_e240d565cb798626b4f452ea256f29701f04857528ad5ede56bf86542e1fd463.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWill Bank of Canada cut rates next week? How new data factors into the call\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Toffan from Project Forest says through four different projects, 12 million trees will be planted in Alberta, including on the Siksika Nation and in the Peace Country.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He says some of the land goes back well over a century, when a quarter section was offered to settlers to encourage settlement in the Prairies.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some of those cases, the original farmers were farming the land, weren\u2019t able to make an economic go and the next generation didn\u2019t take that on,\u201d Toffan said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo going back to 1912 and in some cases prior to that, land was cleared in areas, not able to produce economic crops and those are perfect cases to bring forests back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Science and Tech<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bill Graveland The Canadian Press Posted July 21, 2025 5:09 pm Updated July 21, 2025 5:11 pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13965,13966,49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-15814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-2-billion-trees-program","tag-alberta-agriculture","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}