People from SIA nation in Southern Alberta say it’s getting windier living in a valley you can get those extreme winds especially when it’s coming down a hill and we have a lot of roads that are going uphills and downhills they’re seeing the impact of climate change on
The landscape it never used to get this windy and a few years ago we had a windstorm that took the rooftops off of some houses on the East end now the community is turning to a century old farming practice to combat this new challenge soon this bare Prairie
Landscape will include rows of trees otherwise known as shelter belts the plants serve as natural wind barriers shielding homes livestock and people from bitter Prairie winds shelter belts aren’t new to Alberta in 1903 the federal government launched a National Shelter belt program as part of its bid
To attract Farmers to the Prairies a land owner can just ask for some free trees and they would come back and plant them and they would really um increase that kind of land cover over a billion seedlings were handed out before the program ended in 2013 even though the
Program didn’t explicitly exclude First Nations a technicality prevented Farmers living on reserve from receiving free trees because they didn’t own it the same way you couldn’t say this is my township and range and my address please send the trees to this area and then you’d go to town and pick them up and
Plant them on your now more than 100 years after the program started that’s something that 6A is changing the first nation is planting rows and rows of trees with the help of Edmonton based nonprofit project Forest together they decided on 14 species of trees that will survive the area’s
Conditions we picked to plant hundreds of thousands of okines popper at our c nation Community shelter belt project because of all the poppers out there this performs the best in full sunlight lots of heat and limited amounts of moisture but the reality is not all the trees planted will take root Sika has
Tried to grow trees before and sometimes not super successfully because it’s a very challenging climate next year these seedlings will be planted in sixa cani right now they’re small but in about 10 years they could look as big as the shelter belts at the University of Saskatchewan School of Agriculture this
Is a nice long shelter aboutt double rows of Siberian elm a tree species that they brought from Europe that came over and fit well into this Prairie climate and match the increasingly hot and dry conditions climate change is bringing to the Prairies in addition to blocking wind they trap snow drift hydrating soil
During the Spring melt when crops are beginning to sprout it’s the drier weather that we’re seeing too in the summer and the spring you know the early melt off the less rain it’s impacting our grounds once the trees are planted Sy plans to incorporate edible plants like Saskatoon berries raspberries and medicinal plants
That have disappeared from the area our relationship with all living beings is as equals so to see them coming back it’s like they’re coming back home is what One Elder said he said in Blackfoot they’re coming back home Stephanie cram CBC News 6A Nation
Siksika Nation in southern Alberta is reinvigorating a century-old idea to help protect homes, animals and fields from strong winds and drought conditions.
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Hope the project sees good results
Smart move. What could be done is a food forest type of planting. Trees rely on each other, the tallest "guard" the lower, which do the same for berries and herbs. Willows used to grow well around the sloughs, they could plant those for the rooting hormone that's in the bark of most willows.
I have no issue with people planting trees for any reason.
Run away.
Great idea, 100% in favour of it. We lived on the prairies for over 20 years and know how valuable shelter belts are.
This is the smart thing to do to improve the land for all.
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Wow. Planting trees. Amazing. Climate change is solved. Too bad Trudeau didn’t get his 2 billion trees planted. Then again, that would mean planting 547,946 trees per day for the next 10 years.
Nothing new here re climate change: hot, dry and windy has described the prairies for millennia. Farmers adapted by planting trees like the shelter belt on the north and east sides of our farm house and hundreds of others in Saskatchewan in the early part of the last century. .