The document describes an Internet of Things prototype developed by researchers at the University of Calgary to monitor vegetation recovery in northern Alberta. The system uses open source hardware and interoperable IoT standards. It consists of sensor nodes that collect environmental data, a cloud platform that processes and analyzes the data, and a user interface to view the results. The researchers deployed 11 sensor nodes across three boreal forest sites that successfully collected temperature, humidity, and light exposure data and transmitted it to the cloud or stored it locally on microSD cards. The prototype demonstrated the feasibility of using the system for long-term environmental monitoring.