What’s been happening at GaLTT
Starting the year off right
Libby's sturdy invasives removal crew saw January out on the 31st with a very successful, carefully distanced work party that removed huge piles of Daphne laurel from the Whalebone Community Parks. RDN will carry those piles away for disposal in Nanaimo. Local disposal options [...]
707 Park Expansion
In October 2020 the RDN announced its purchase of 3.6-hectare (9-acre) property abutting 707 Community Park and immediately east of Coats Marsh Regional Park. This was the omitted "remainder parcel" in the rezoning proposal which enlarged 707-Community Park by 136 hectares (336 acres) a couple [...]
2020 Planning
It's not as bad as the photo suggests, but some days it feels like it! The Board continued with a different kind of slog than walkers experience—bringing our Policies and Procedures up to date and in line with the Standards and Practices of the [...]
2020 Invasives
JANUARY On January 5th a large joint gathering of volunteers from our trail work and invasives teams tackled the young hand-pullable broom in the Drumbeg Park meadow, and used the Extractigators to pull some of the mature Daphne laureola in the shady areas. [...]
2020 Events
JANUARY On Saturday January 4, an adventurous group of walkers joined GaLTT board member Rebecca for the third in our series of guided walks "The A,B,Cs of Gabriola Trails". They started at the Wilkinson Way trailhead on South Road, walking up into 707 [...]
2020 AGM
AGM & SPEAKEROn March 3, before our AGM, Dr Richard Hebda frightened us and entertained us speaking about Climate Change and the Gulf Islands Environment. He first depressed us with data confirming that rapidly changing climate is raising sea-levels significantly and will greatly change [...]
2020 Accessibility
FEBRUARY Since our beach and trails accessibility survey, GaLTT had been negotiating with RDN parks department about the lack of flattish trails in 707 for walkers with limited mobility. At our request, they removed the steep berm at the Jeanette entrance to [...]
2020 Trailwork
FEBRUARY Throughout February, our hardy crews dug ditches in an attempt to improve drainage on the regularly-flooding Keith Road right-of-way trail—neighbours reported great improvement. If any very wet patches persist, they will be boardwalked. MARCH Peter's crew brought March in [...]
2019 Planning
NOVEMBER On November 23, 27 GaLTT members gathered at The Commons under the guidance of Wave Consulting to assess how well GaLTT has performed in completing the objectives of our 2015-2020 Strategic Plan. Board President summarized our activities and achievements in that period. [...]
2019 Invasives
APRIL-MAY BROOM-BASH: On April 28 GaLTT and the Lions Club held their annual kick-off broom-bash in Drumbeg Park. A grand total of 64 volunteers turned up to help clear a large area near the trees, revealing some camas lilies still bravely blooming. [...]
2019 Events
JUNE 2 CROSS-GABRIOLA TREK: Over 50 people started from Joyce Lockwood Park to walk this year's lovely new 13.5 km route. We trekked along the beautiful forested coast cliffs, and then up and across the middle of the island. We walked entirely on [...]
2019 AGM
MARCH-APRIL Because of the big winter storm we had to cancel our scheduled AGM. The rescheduled meeting was held on March 4th, and although our speaker could not attend at that time,members learned what we were up to throughout 2018 and [...]
