Freshwater Conservation Canada lead by biologist Leslie Peterson along with the City of Red Deer brought 60 trees and shrubs to the Piper Creek Community Gardens to plant today. It has been a long term project to restore Piper Creek to a more natural state! Culverts have been removed, banks stabilized and we have planted saskatoons, wolf willow and several species of tress over the last several years. The trees we planted were obtained from a federal program called 2 billion trees. We had a group of 10 volunteers, 2 staff from Freshwater Conservation Canada and Ken Lehman from the City of Red Deer!
I am very impressed at how the Piper Creek Community Garden has developed and Piper Creek area is quite scenic!
We also had a large group of goats eating the grass.
A big thanks to Adam, Karen and Doug for joining me today. It is a project that has given us the opportunity to give back to our environment and community! We even did some electro fishing today. That was interesting to help with!
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