A Mi’kmaw land trust has purchased a southeastern New Brunswick salt marsh near Dorchester for protection and conservation by Amlamgog, or Fort Folly First Nation.
Land deemed valuable for its climate role and sacred medicine
Jennifer Sweet · CBC News
· Posted: Nov 14, 2025 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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This 25-hectare salt marsh was acquired with funding from an Indigenous-led federal conservation program. (Submitted by Lyle Vicaire)
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 restoration techniques.
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