Salt marsh on Dorchester Cape to be protected by First Nation

Some healthy marshland on Dorchester Cape, near the confluence of the Petitcodiac and Memramcook rivers, is being turned over to Fort Folly First Nation, or Amlamgog, for protection and conservation.

“The more we can now protect … the better we as a society would be able to adapt through the climate crisis,” said Lyle Vicaire, founder of Sikniktuk Climate Adaptation, a conservation initiative through which the land was purchased and donated.

The 25-hectare salt marsh, backed by dikes and fronted by mudflats, was bought using federal funding from the Indigenous- led Area-Based Conservation Program, he said.

Vicaire, an environmental scientist and consultant from Elsipogtog First Nation, is working on his master's degree at the University of New Brunswick and studying salt marsh restorat