What’s been happening at GaLTT
Drumbeg Restoration 2024 – you can help!
Removing invasive broom is only the start of our restoration work at Drumbeg—we then have to replant with native species to prevent the broom and other weedy species from moving back in. Will you donate to help cover the costs of buying plants and [...]
Why I use iNaturalist
Guest post by Lou Skinner. My love of the natural world began early, on walks with my dad through the forests of Quebec. As a teen, I would roll my eyes when he told me the names of wild flowers and birds but it [...]
A wind phone for Gabriola
In 2010 Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki set up an old telephone booth in his garden so that he could speak to a loved cousin who had died of cancer by “talking” to him on a phone that is not connected to any “earthly system”. [...]
Gabriola Hills are Alive with Buzzing Nighthawks
Guest post © Vicky Scott After sunset many hill tops and cliffs around Gabriola ring with the buzzes and booms from the calls and dives of the Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor). My favourite site is the open space around the Gabriola Clinic that allows for [...]
Happy Birthday to us!
We are 20 on the 20th—and you're invited! Please come and help us at GaLTT's Birthday Bash to celebrate 20 years of conservation and trail work and get inspired for our future. Everyone is welcome—bring your whole family! When: Saturday July 20 from 2 [...]
Stroll and Sip – it’s back!
What could be better than a guided summer walk ending with an opportunity for a cool drink at one of Gabriola's establishments? Not much, apparently, judging by the enthusiasm with which people greeted our Stroll & Sip series last summer—and now we're doing it [...]
2024 End to End – report and map
Our End to End walk from Descanso campground to Page’s Resort on June 1st was a celebration of our local trails for BC Trails Day—a reason many people visit and move to our island! Sixty five people (and a handful of well-behaved dogs) walked [...]
Why build boardwalks?
A recurring question... We’ve been asked (more than once) “Why does GaLTT build boardwalks everywhere? Why not leave the trails in a more natural state?” Most of us—and that includes the GaLTT Board and committees—do prefer more natural trails. But boardwalks aren’t built for [...]
GaLTT’s Presidents – Norm Harburn
Norm Harburn, GaLTT’s fifth president (2014-2016) Like so many islanders, Norm Harburn and his wife Beth Vogel began visiting Gabriola decades before they retired here in 2010. Norm’s professional background was in Natural Resource Management, and for fifteen years prior to retiring he’d been [...]
Membership updates
In case it flew under your radar... GaLTT recently made a change to its membership tiers: what were termed "family" memberships have been renamed "joint" memberships. A joint membership can be of any two adults. Both holders of a joint membership are entitled to vote [...]
Our new trail map
Edition 4.5 is here, hot off the presses!—and it's been a long time coming. We've had some content updates ready for quite some time, but because we knew that important and substantial changes to Gabriola's parks and trails system were in the works, we put [...]
Mark your calendar for the End to End walk!
...for June 1st, 2024 GaLTT’s guided End to End Hike June 1 is BC TRAILS DAY! Join us for our annual walk through the varied landscapes we are trying to protect, from one end of Gabriola to the other. 10:00 am: begin at Descanso Park [...]
