{"id":857897,"date":"2026-08-14T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857897\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:24:10","slug":"government-helping-communities-affected-by-wildfires-replant-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857897\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Helping Communities Affected by Wildfires Replant Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/town-of-small-point-broad-cove-blackhead-adams-cove-tree-planting.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Government Helping Communities Affected by Wildfires Replant Trees\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Town of Small Point, Broad Cove, Blackhead, Adam&#8217;s Cove\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Forestry is helping communities plant trees with a multi-year reforestation plan for areas burned in last year\u2019s wildfires. <\/p>\n<p>The goal of the program is to replenish affected domestic cutting areas, improve the look of the landscape, and help to restore wildlife habitat. <\/p>\n<p>Softwood species are being planted in more remote areas and in domestic cutting areas, while hardwood species are being planted closer to communities as recommended by FireSmart Canada. <\/p>\n<p>Planting recently occurred in the park in Broad Cove.<\/p>\n<p>The province says some 25,000 trees have been planted, covering approximately 35 hectares so far this year. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a limited number of white birch, white pine, yellow birch and eastern larch seedlings were made available to residents of the Conception Bay North Shore free of charge.  <\/p>\n<p>Seedlings are also available to the general public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.nl.ca\/fal\/seedling-request-form\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">through an online request form<\/a>. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Town of Small Point, Broad Cove, Blackhead, Adam&#8217;s Cove\/Facebook) The Department of Forestry is helping communities plant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,269876,185074,269873,66,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-857897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857897","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=857897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}