Cedar Tree Planting & UpdatesI am a little late posting this update, but in mid July, Ken had arranged some cedar trees for me to pick up and plant on Mosquito. A few days later, July 24th or so, I started getting to work planting all the trees. I was able to do about 15-20 a day, it was tough going in the hot 30+ weather and I wanted to make sure the trees got put in an area that gave them the best chance to grow into big strong trees. Needless to say it was much more time consuming than expected, in hindsight I should have definitely arranged another couple people to help out. Over the period of 4 days I was able to plant about 80 cedars and 10 Douglas Fir saplings. I had a couple run in with ground wasp nests, which was not fun at all. Lots of stings! I was quite pleased with the level of interest the trail walkers had in my doing. Many people stopped and asked what I was doing, many concerned I was doing something negative. To their surprise I was actually helping the creek, nobody had guessed that haha! Here are some pics of the guys I planted!Here are pics of their progress on Sept 7thI only went back twice since planting the trees to water them, I had forgotten where I planted most. To my surprise nearly all of them were doing extremely well given the dry summer we experienced. As of Sept 7th I was seeing about 5% which had not made it, which is surprisingly really good numbers for Cedar transplanting (so I have heard).
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AuthorKeegan Casidy Archives
January 2020
CategoriesMosquito Creek,
North Vancouver, British Columbia |