Innovation Anthology #667:
George Greenhough is quick to admit he’s not a forester, but he is keen to create a forest at Genesee.
George is Capital Power’s Manager of Land Services at the Genesee mine and power plant south west of Edmonton.
To help move the company’s mine reclamation away from agriculture and into forest landscape, George has engaged the scientific community.
GEORGE GREENHOUGH: We’ve enlisted some help from the University of Alberta and other researchers. We hire the services of a professional forester and we’ve actually been literally going out and yes, planting trees. We’ve worked with Dr. Simon Landhausser at the University of Alberta and there’s been quite a few grad students coming through his program that have spent time out at Genesee. We’ve tried techniques such as live root transfer where you take the forest floor from an area in front of the mine and then place it down on land that’s been landscaped. And the idea was that the root shoots from the native species, particularly the aspen, would grow and become a sustainable forest.
Even at this early stage, George Greenhough says the new forest is attracting animals and waterfowl.
Thanks today to CAPITAL POWER
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Program Date: 2015-02-24