Friends of the Muskoka Watershed, along with universities, community and government partners, and thousands of volunteers, have collected and spread over 9.2 tonnes of wood ash in Muskoka forests, and the results are in!
The application of clean residential wood ash to forests appears to have woken up the trees.
These results suggest that regulated ash application may not only lead to more delicious maple syrup, but can cause trees to absorb more carbon and water, assisting in the fight against climate change, and help with flood mitigation.
With these exciting results, the project expanded and residents were given the opportunity to be a part of it by becoming Citizen Scientists (CS). Data collection began in spring 2022 and is half complete.