{"id":57241,"date":"2025-08-09T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:05:09","slug":"over-73k-trees-planted-in-narrow-hills-provincial-park-following-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57241\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 73K trees planted in Narrow Hills Provincial Park following wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of the trees were planted by just five people from July 7-15, which included 60,120 jack pine trees and 12,960 white spruce trees. Additionally, various grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees like trembling aspen, white birch and balsam poplar are beginning to grow again in the area. <\/p>\n

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Sparked on May 7 via human activity, the fire is still burning as of August 7 and has burned an area of 579,867 hectares so far, causing significant damage in the Lower Fishing Lake area, so much so that the park has been officially closed until spring 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire burned so hot that the entire landscape was destroyed, so the impacts on the park environment, the ecosystem that makes the parks beautiful, are significant,\u201d said Paul Johnson, an assistant deputy minister with Saskatchewan\u2019s Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport, during a June 9 interview with 650 CKOM. <\/p>\n

Aerial seeding is the next step in the forest renewal, where seeds will be dropped from a plane to help cover a wider area over impacted areas from the Shoe fire, helping to emulate the natural renewal cycle. <\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/p>\n

loganc.lehmann@pattisonmedia.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

On Bluesky: @loganlehmann.bsky.social <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of the trees were planted by just five people from July 7-15, which included 60,120 jack pine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-57241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57241","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=57241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}