Planting trees and creating jobs

  • Posted: June 24, 2025

June 24, 2025 Media inquiries

Over $55 million is being invested to plant five million new trees, recover caribou habitat and create jobs.

Populations in most of Alberta’s 15 caribou ranges are finally stable or growing. However, caribou’s long-term recovery is still threatened by thousands of kilometres of legacy seismic lines left barren since trees were cleared decades ago. Properly re-foresting these areas is complex and difficult work requiring special expertise from northern Albertans.

Alberta’s government is investing $55.8 million over six years to plant five million trees across northern Alberta by 2030. This funding will help create hundreds of jobs through various tree-planting projects and help Alberta’s treasured woodland caribou increase in numbers.

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