Sudbury Regreening: Bringing plant diversity back to a devastated landscape

The program is split into 2 sections. On Saturday afternoon we will visit several sites to look at the plant diversity that now occurs in the Sudbury landscape with over 45 years of The Sudbury Regreening Program.

We will meet at the Living with Lakes Centre (Ramsay Lake Road) for a short introduction about the world-famous regreening Program. We then make a tour of the city stopping for short botanical walks into the recovering forest at sites from no intervention through to a site treated 45 years ago. We will consider how the plant diversity informs us about the completeness of the recovery and what other interventions, if any, should be considered.

For those staying overnight there will be an optional visit to the Wolf Lake Old Growth Red Pine Forest Preserve on Sunday morning (9am to 1pm).

The optional visit to the Wolf Lake Old Growth Red Pine Forest on Sunday morning will visit the world’s largest known contiguous ancient red pine forest with trees as old as 275 years old. Situated in the NE corner of the City of Greater Sudbury the area is a model for the Sudbury Regreening Program. Many of the Red Pines and other tree species grow on the rocky quartzite hills and shallow soils are prevalent. Due to poor nutrients, the trees grow very slowly. On site we will discuss the ongoing challenges stopping full protection of this unique forest.