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Logging debris in Gabriola’s 707 acre park

on 22 Mar 2011

If you’ve hiked in Gabriola’s 707 Acre Wood, you’ll have seen them: piles of logging debris like this. They’re all over the place. What should be done with them, or should they just be left to slowly rot away? I seem to remember hearing that these piles might be removed, possibly so that there’d be [...]

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Thanks, GALTT!

on 27 Nov 2008

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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