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Online ‘inventory’ takes stock of natural features in Sackville and its watersheds

Sackville is changing the way it manages its natural features with the creation of a so-called natural assets inventory. Photo: Screenshot/go.greenanalytics.ca/sackville
David Gordon Koch - CHMA - Sackville • NB | 11-07-2022
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Sackville and its two main watersheds, Carters Brook and Joe Brook, boast nearly 71,000 “natural assets” covering more than 12,000 hectares, according to a new online dashboard. 

Natural assets include everything from wetlands, lakes and rivers to forests, fields and soil. Over the past year, staff at the Town of Sackville have been working with the not-for-profit Municipal Natural Assets Initiative on the so-called natural assets inventory.

Town councillors saw the results of that work at the latest public meeting of council, during a presentation by Amy Taylor, CEO of Green Analytics, a company that provides technical support to MNAI. 

Speaking at Sackville Town Council on Tuesday, July 5, Taylor explained that natural assets can help mitigate the effects of climate change: