The Baikie Island Nature Reserve still suffers from past industrial activity, despite decades of work done to restore it to a natural state.
The Greenways Land Trust and the Wei Wai Kum First Nation have been working this fall on restoring a large part of the shoreline along the Raven Trail. They found many of the trees planted in the original restoration work of the 2000s are struggling. That’s largely because the island still suffers from thin, nutrient-poor soil and rocky, compacted ground from decades of use as an industrial site.
To help the native plants thrive, a thousand cubic metres of soil has been added and is now being planted with more than 3,500 trees and shrubs.
For more information about the ongoing restoration efforts, you can read the latest bulletin from Greenways Land Trust.
