After Narrow Hills Provincial Park was decimated by wildfires, 73,080 trees were planted there in July as part of a forest renewal treatment.

Five people planted 60,120 jack pine trees and 12,960 white spruce trees between July 7 and 15, and between the new trees, grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees like trembling aspen, white birch and balsam poplar are starting to crop up.

Other sites damaged by the Shoe fire will soon undergo aerial seeding. While wildfire usually helps to renew forests, the trees planted before the fire were too young to produce seeds, so they were unable to regenerate.

This planting project aims to reopen the campgrounds in Narrow Hills Provincial Park by the spring of 2026.