You’ve probably noticed the huge broom patch in front of the Islands Trust property on North Road. I mentioned it last year when I spotted pink broom growing there, and have also blogged about the broom and tansy that grow between the Islands Trust property and the road. Well. This afternoon two (or more?) hard-working [...]
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Gabriola’s first trail licence agreement was signed a couple of weeks ago. Now another trail is about to be licenced! GaLTT says: Less than a week later at their Strategic Planning Workshop, GaLTT announced the imminent signing of our second trail licence (still in the lawyers’ offices!), this time with landowner Sally Robinson. The public [...]
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If you care about trails and trail access on Gabriola, you’ll know about GaLTT. They are the Gabriola Land and Trails Trust, and here’s what they’ve been up to since 2004 (according to their website): We are close to completing our drive for public-access trails from Drumbeg to Descanso, and our work breaking new trails [...]
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Here’s some great news for Gabriola trail users from GaLTT: Tuesday, October 18 at 1pm, GaLTT will sign its first trail licence agreement GaLTT will celebrate the signing of its first trail licence agreement, allowing public access on a trail through privately held forest land off Barrett Road. GaLTT and the Cornish family will sign [...]
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Back in January, I blogged about Gabriola’s corduroy walkway. If you walked it then and found it tippy, you might be pleased to see that the wood is much more stable now that rock has been added.
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Say you have property on Gabriola, and a neighbourhood trail runs through it. What to do? Perhaps you’d like to let people wander along that trail. Maybe your trail provides access to the beach or forest for neighbours who would have to take huge detours to get to those places if not for your handy [...]
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When Gabriola Land and Trails Trust volunteers have work parties, they don’t mess around. Here’s what they did yesterday afternoon: transformed a wickedly muddy section of trail into this. It’s a corduroy road – or, well, a corduroy walkway, anyway.
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At Drumbeg, Gabriola’s battle against invasive Scotch broom continues: Gabriola Land and Trails Trust organizes broom-pulling work-parties, and volunteers yank broom from the ground so that native plants can re-establish themselves. The progress this year is amazing. Next time you’re at Drumbeg, wander out to the place where the most broom grows, and take a [...]
You know that place in the Elder Cedar (S’ul-hween X’pey) Nature Reserve where the waters run deep in winter-time? The trail goes through it, and if you’ve tried to get past in the rainy season you’ll have wished that you’d taken hip waders or a small boat with you. GALTT (Gabriola Land and Trails Trust) [...]
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The Gabriola Commons has a new feature: this boardwalk, which means you’ll no longer need gumboats when walking through the soggy bits of the property in winter-time. It was built by volunteers from the Gabriola Land and Trails Trust.
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These concrete blocks serve as stepping stones in the Elder Cedar Nature Reserve watering hole. The crossing looks easy in this photo, but you try it sometime when the waters are high and wide, when everything is slippery, and when both blocks are a couple of inches underwater. It’s less easy then. A while back [...]
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I love hiking Gabriola’s trails, and often wander off into the middle of the forest. The wild makes me happy. This though, makes me sad: It’s heartbreaking to find that a place one loves is being destroyed for yet more development. Haunted by this pile of former-trees, I came home with a new year’s resolution: [...]
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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 [...]
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A while ago GALTT (Gabriola Land and Trails Trust) announced that they were sponsoring a Beginners Edible Wild Mushroom Workshop on Gabriola. (The instructor is Jessica Wolf, also known as Jessica Snider.) Sounds perfect, I thought, sign me up! I was about to register when I spotted this section of the registration form on the [...]
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