Every week or so during the non-monsoon seasons, GALTT (Gabriola Land and Trails Trust) volunteers are out building trails, maintaining trails, or fighting Gabriola’s invasive broom by ripping out the broom plants. Have you seen the area they’ve cleared at Drumbeg Park? It looks to be about half of the large field across from Breakwater Island. It used to be all broom, but now there’s actually a field there again, and the grassy area is increasing as more and more broom is beaten back.

Last Sunday the GALTT volunteers were at it again, this time attacking broom in a grassy clearing just off North Road in the Tunnel area. Here are the results:
photo of piles of broom

Impressive, no? The photo shows just part of a very large pile of broom — all uprooted by GALTT. That’s North Road in the background.

Here’s more on Scotch Broom from the Invasive Plants Council of BC.

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