Community Ecosystem Restoration Program (CERP) (ID: 100000000000136)
Account Holder
Description
The Community Ecosystem Restoration Project: Restoration of Degraded Riparian areas and Improvement of Park Ecosystems in the District of Maple Ridge, BC, Canada. The CERP shall re-establish pockets of degraded forest in protected riparian zones as well as various municipal parklands throughout the District of Maple Ridge, BC, Canada. The project activity consists of selectively removing existing Red Alder (Alnus rubra) and brush vegetation, planting long-lived, site-matching high-productivity native tree species singly or in clusters, and enhancing the growth and survival of these trees through silvicultural best practices. In this manner, the pre-disturbance, high-carbon retention native forest ecosystem will be re-established, replacing the A. rubra and invasive brush regime that is currently in place and declining to very low carbon sequestration levels.