Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority kicked its tree planting program into high gear this year.

“We’re concentrating all our tree planting efforts to plant a massive number of trees (as many as 80,000) across the entire NPCA watershed over the next several years,” said Stuart McPherson, supervisor of NPCA’s Trees for All program.

The conservation authority and its partners have planted more than 43,000 trees this year, with another 3,638 trees slated for the coming weeks.

Recent plantings include 800 trees along Twenty Mile Creek in Smithville last Saturday and 500 trees next to the new pedestrian bridge over Forty Mile Creek in Grimsby in early October.

A variety of native trees from area nurseries were planted, including cedars, willows and sycamores.

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